Museum of Fuessen
Baroque abbey museum with an oval library, lavish stucco halls and historic lutes and violins.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Museum of Füssen, housed in the former Benedictine abbey of Saint Mang, is about the building itself rather than its display cases. It follows the architect Johann Jakob Herkomer and the abbot who hired him in the sixteen-nineties, and the lopsided medieval site they set out to reshape on the bank of the Lech. Best heard in the oval library hall, standing by the balustrade at its centre.
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