Germany Guide
Schleswig-Holstein
St-Annen-Museum
Address: St-Annen-Strasse
Opening time: April– Sept Tues– Sun 10am–5pm; Oct– March Tues– Sun 10am–4pm, Sat & Sun 11am–5pm
Price: €5
The St-Annen-Museum is a first-rate gallery of ecclesiastical art from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the cloisters of a former Augustinian convent. A room of predellas and altarpieces commissioned by Lübeck guilds is a sumptuous balance of wealth and piety, but even these pale next to a brilliant Passion altar by Flemish master Hans Memling that glows with inner radiance. Elsewhere, the original Baroque statues from the Puppenbrücke – Mercury included – strike a pose in a charming courtyard and Lübeck lays out its domestic past to the late 1800s in living and dining rooms of flashy merchants; don't miss a 1736 grand hall with a kitchen tucked beneath a carved balcony.