Salder Castle Municipal Museum

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On Saturday, October 24, 2026, the exhibition areas at Salder Castle will be closed to the public due to an event for guests.
However, the exhibition areas in the cowshed—including the “Salon Salder”—and the horse stable will remain open to visitors.

From Thursday, October 22, through Sunday, October 25, 2026 , the Agriculture/Mobility exhibition area in the sheep barnwill be closed.

Regular Hours of Operation

The extensive permanent exhibition on the city’s history is open in the castle and the “Pferdestall.” The “Kuhstall” regularly hosts rotating special exhibitions.

The exhibition area “Mobility and Agriculture between 1750 and 1950” in the “Sheep Barn” of the Salder Castle Municipal Museum is once again open to visitors. Since this area is not always freely accessible, please simply check in with the on-site attendants if you’re interested in gaining access.

The outdoor areas—the Eiszeitgarten and the Mill Garden—are generally open from April through October and are closed during the fall and winter due to weather conditions.

Hours:

Open Tuesdays through Sundays and on public holidays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

We are closed on Mondays (unless a public holiday falls on a Monday), on Good Friday, on May 1, and during the annual closure from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day.

The Municipal Museum

Research assistant Christine Kellner-Depner (left) and Jan Erik Bohling, Head of Cultural Affairs for the City of Salzgitter, put up the sign for an extracurricular place of learning at the museum.

The Municipal Museum has been a recognized extracurricular place of learning since 2019

Salder Castle houses the municipal museum. Admission is free of charge!

Salder Castle was built in 1608 in the Renaissance style. It has been home to the municipal museum of the city of Salzgitter for over 50 years. Admission to the museum is free of charge.

The Salder Castle Museum belongs to the City of Salzgitter's own facility management, purchasing and logistics department.

Its exhibitions focus on information about the history of the entire Salzgitter region, from the history of the earth to the end of the 20th century.

The "star" of the geology department is a fish dinosaur (ichthyosaur) that lived in the Lower Cretaceous period 115 million years ago and whose skeleton was discovered in Salzgitter in 1940 during underground ore mining.

One of the museum's exhibits is an old mine cart that was used to transport ore out of the mine.

A separate section shows the economic development of Salzgitter in the 19th and 20th centuries from a largely agricultural region to the third largest industrial location in Lower Saxony.

The presentation of the toy collection (history of childhood, historical toys between 1800 and 2000) is unique in the region.

In addition to the permanent exhibitions, a large number of temporary and special exhibitions contribute to a lively museum life. For example, the Fine Arts department presents the "Salon Salder" exhibition every year in the museum's special exhibition building "Kuhstall", in which current works by artists from Lower Saxony are presented. Large hands-on exhibitions for children and the young at heart, such as the "Mineral Resources" exhibition, are also presented there.

The Eiszeitgarten

The Salder Castle Municipal Museum has had a special attraction since July 2, 2006. The outdoor area "Eiszeitgarten" has been created on 2000 square meters. In conjunction with the permanent archaeological exhibition in the castle on the subject of "50,000 years of life in Salzgitter", the Eiszeitgarten shows the living conditions of the Neanderthals, who, as finds at the Krähenriede in Lebenstedt prove, went hunting in the northern Harz foreland at the beginning of the last ice age.

Outside the museum buildings, sculptures and objects by nationally and internationally renowned artists can be seen next to the old bakehouse and the Osterlinder Bockwindmühle windmill in the mill garden.