Brüder Grimm Haus and Museum Steinau

Brüder Grimm Haus and Museum Steinau Review

Occupying the house where the Brothers Grimm lived for much of their preadolescent lives and the house's old barn, respectively, the Brüder Grimm Haus and Museum Steinau are fun and engaging, modern little museums. Featuring a reconstruction of the family's old kitchen, the brothers' former house also displays old personal posessions such as letters and reading glasses, and has an upper floor divided into 10 rooms with interactive displays that celebrate the Grimms' stories and other fairy tales from around Europe. Across a small courtyard, the town's museum documents what life was like on the old trade route that ran through Steinau, incorporating into its exhibits a coach, inn signs, milestones, and the type of pistols travelers used to defend themselves from bandits.