Landesgeschichte(n) - Dauerausstellung im Haus der Geschichte

Regional history comes to life in elaborately staged rooms. The 1,500 original exhibits make it clear how great history had an impact on a small scale, how much political change and technological progress, war and peace, hardship and prosperity affected each individual

. Why is the sight of children playing happily on a film from the Nazi era so horrifying? The permanent exhibition shows unusual, important and new things about southwest Germany, and

a walk-through map shows how the contours of today's Baden-Württemberg emerged from a patchwork of 200 territories under Napoleon. It is the starting point for an impressive journey through the state's history - across the shaky ground of uncertain revolutionary times, through the empire, along the fates of the world wars and National Socialism to the controversial founding of the state and into the current media age.