There are six museums in a population of around 23,000, two concert seasons of international acclaim, a widely acknowledged figure theatre festival, the Husum Film Days and there is Theodor Storm, a great son and literary ambassador. Very few equally ranked cities offer as much culture  as Husum.

If you’re interested in the Maritimes, Husum has two first class addresses to turn to. The  Nordsee Museum Husum has been showing off its new lustre since March 2007. Continuing on from the myth of the Rungholt settlement, the museum portrays the tides, the development of dyke construction and much, much more about the life of the people during high tide and low tide. One section is dedicated to the founder of the museum and his collection. In the 19^th century, Ludwig Nissen, the son of a Husum tradesman, attained great wealth and influence as a jewellery dealer in New York.

Right at the port in Husum,  the North Friesland shipping museum provides its visitors with information about the history of whaling, ship construction in North Freisland, coastal fishing and about merchant shipping under sail. A genuine rarity is the “sugar ship”, a well known wreck of a freight sailing ship of the 16^th century. It was discovered in 1996 in Uelvesbuell in the bay of Husum and conserved in a sugar solution and can be admired today in a specially controlled air-conditioned hall. The privately managed museum is known as a “lighthouse” of the Schleswig-Holstein navy museums.

You can find out more about the subject, "Holiday with the Tides"  here.

In 1899, the local history researcher Magnus Voss had an idea that was copied later in many places. In order to show the people of the towns how well the farmers in the surrounding countryside lived, he had an old thatched roof house from his home town of Ostenfeld transported to the centre of Husum and reconstructed there. The first open air museum in Germany was born, the  Ostenfeld Farmhouse, which portrays a bit of the country life right in the middle of Husum.

What is especially imposing is the  „Red Haubarg“ in the town of Witzwort, located only a few kilometres southwest of Husum. The impressive white building with its high thatched roof can be seen from far away across the marsh and is a symbol for the former wealth of the farmers on the peninsula Eiderstedt. Next to the little agricultural museum that belongs to the local history museum of Eiderstedt, the "Rote Haubarg" is also home to a restaurant and cafe.

If you would like to really experience the country life up here with us in the north, there are many opportunities to breathe in some country air during the North Friesland Lamb Days and at the North Friesland Farmers’ Market. You can find out more about the subject, "Holiday in the Country"  here.

Children follow blue glazed tiles at the Husum port where the words of Storm’s poem, “Die Stadt” are imprinted. At four stations of this „historical play line“ , the history of Husum is developed in an entertaining way.

Further information about the culture of Husum Bay as well as the culture brochure, „highlights“ can be found at the Husum tourist information.