Deutsches Salzmuseum Lüneburg

In the location's words:

A museum for salt?

Everyone knows salt!

Salt is white, salt makes you thirsty, salt is odorless, salt doesn't cost much, salt is an inconspicuous white grain. But it is precisely this grain that makes life on earth possible. Salt is a building block of life and vital for our bodies.

As one of the oldest cultural assets, it has had a decisive influence on the history of mankind. It is not for nothing that it bears the nickname "white gold". Even today, it is still an essential part of our everyday world, our thinking and our language.

Reason enough to show it off properly!

But why in Lüneburg?

Lüneburg is the salt city in the north. For over 1000 years, salt dominated the life of the town. It made it rich and powerful. It was not until 1980 that the salt works, one of the oldest and largest industrial operations in Europe, closed its doors. Since then, the German Salt Museum/Industrial Monument Saline Lüneburg has been a reminder of its glorious past.

Visitors can learn interesting, fascinating and curious facts about salt in a vivid and not at all "museum-like" way. The museum does not keep its distance, it arouses curiosity. Curious about the fascinating world of salt, the small white mineral with great charisma.

Because not everyone knows salt!