Sometimes, we see blue—preferably in the town of Schwetzingen. It is the first and only town in Germany that has a museum dedicated entirely to this one colour. The Rhine-Neckar region offers more than 230 exhibition buildings plus 110 big or small theatres and innumerable concerts and festivals. This is a great starting point to get ready for your next after-work activity—using our stories and event tips: What do “new music” concerts in the Heidelberg Tankturm tower sound like, or poems written in Palatine dialect? We take you to the inside of old cinemas and new spaces for culture, or into the local graffiti scene.
Stones, spirits, and art made in Zimbabwe
The Bettendorff gallery brings Shona Art to Gauangelloch.
Walther in a Memory of the World
The Codex Manesse stored in Heidelberg is one of the most important books in the world.
A theatrical troupe that brings people together
The Chawwerusch theatre in Herxheim tells stories for and with the local people.
Stony Witnesses
Tracing the Celts near Bad Dürkheim
A theatre on Tromm mountain
Jürgen Flügge brings dramatic art to the countryside in his Hof-Theater-Tromm theatre
Theatre in a tower
It’s probably the smallest theatre in Germany and it is located in Freinsheim.
A theatre in the bend
A small place offering great stage art in Neustadt-Hambach
Magical
Torsten Rau manages the office of the Magischer Zirkel in Lampertheim.
Homeless, unrecognised, yet admired
The writer Augusta Bender is revered in Schefflenz.
The Lady of Crimeheim
Crime novelist Ingrid Noll leads visitors through Wein-heim on an audio guide tour
A house that opens up spaces
How the barac project attracts artists to Mannheim
A bridging house
A place for art: The house at the weir footbridge in Heidelberg
The Ring that opens horizons to the world
The Bensheim Eysoldt-Ring is one of Germany’s most important acting awards
The world of sounds from Mannheim’s Jungbusch
We pay a visit to the OMM Orientalische Musikakademie Mannheim
For the love of paper
In Mannheim, Annette Schrimpf runs one of the last bookbinderies in the region.
Insanely beautiful art
The Prinzhorn collection in Heidelberg
Memories coined in enamel
We go on a journey through time in the Little Museum for Old Shops and Advertisements in Hammelbach
Where light dances on concrete
The EinTanzHaus gives Mannheim’s Trinitatiskirche church a new lease of life
Where art learns to swim
A reservoir for fire fighting operations has become a concert stage: Thomas Grommes has reinvented the Ludwigshafen indoor swimming pool.
Muddersprooch in American English
Muddersprooch in American English
The man, who was into butterflies
The Carl Bosch Museum Heidelberg is reminiscent of the eventful life of the Nobel laureate
Pictures encapsulated in a time capsule
Vivien Räbiger takes photographs of Lost Places in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region and elsewhere.
Witnesses made of stone
Little religious shrines in the Odenwald bear witness to faith and good luck.
For the love of speaking dialect
How Dannstadt-Schauernheim maintains the Palatine dialect
Film magicians
How pictures began to move is shown in Deidesheim.