--- title: "Niedersächsisches Spargelmuseum" url: "https://www.mittelweser-tourism.com/poi/niedersaechsisches-spargelmuseum" description: "Everyone is talking about Nienburg asparagus. Where better to find out more about this noble vegetable than at the Lower Saxony Asparagus Museum? The asparagus museum is housed in a 300-year-old Low German hall house in the museum's Biedermeier garden, which originally served as a farmhouse in Marklohe, on the left bank of the Weser. Using photos as well as original harvesting machines and asparagus knives, the museum illustrates the laborious work involved in growing, cultivating and growing the plant with its many long roots, processing, preserving, marketing and selling it.One chapter is dedicated to the topic of seasonal work, which has always been closely linked to asparagus cultivation. In the past, relatives and neighbors helped out, but during the Second World War, prisoners of war also had to cut spears. After 1945, the harvest workers first came from the Mediterranean countries and later from Poland.The focus is on the valuable Burgdorf asparagus collection of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung with special tableware and cutlery. It displays tableware from five centuries. On the first floor, there is also an asparagus table with touch displays that guests can use to customize their asparagus table. The upper floor is for younger visitors. A tractor with a computer screen awaits them here. The children can create a virtual asparagus plantation and cut asparagus. The rabbit Mio is also there as an identification figure.Large-scale equipment such as a deep plow, a ridge scraper, the first asparagus peeling machine and a small asparagus field are presented in the outdoor area. One highlight is the largest asparagus sculpture in the world." language: "en" type: "Place" image: "https://dam.destination.one/574002/bbd521e6e2cc92a10aef6b87eaae66a57c7308eb4a0a420cf5aead5547aeb65b/.jpg" breadcrumb: "Root > Mittelweser > Special > Destination.Data Details > Poi" --- Share Niedersächsisches Spargelmuseum =============================== - Tip - Half-timbered house - Specialist museum of history and culture - Museum The Lower Saxony Asparagus Museum in Nienburg Display cases with historical asparagus plates and cutlery set colorful accents on a magenta background. A woman operates an interactive screen in a museum with culinary exhibits. Interactive exhibition in the attic with wooden floor, beanbags and a large screen. Half-timbered building with thatched roof, historic agricultural machinery and tractor in a green, rural setting. An artistically painted porcelain plate displayed on a bright pink background. A special museum all about the noble vegetable - from cultivation to consumption. Everyone is talking about Nienburg asparagus. Where better to find out more about this noble vegetable than at the Lower Saxony Asparagus Museum? The asparagus museum is housed in a 300-year-old Low German hall house in the museum's Biedermeier garden, which originally served as a farmhouse in Marklohe, on the left bank of the Weser. Using photos as well as original harvesting machines and asparagus knives, the museum illustrates the laborious work involved in growing, cultivating and growing the plant with its many long roots, processing, preserving, marketing and selling it. One chapter is dedicated to the topic of seasonal work, which has always been closely linked to asparagus cultivation. In the past, relatives and neighbors helped out, but during the Second World War, prisoners of war also had to cut spears. After 1945, the harvest workers first came from the Mediterranean countries and later from Poland. The focus is on the valuable Burgdorf asparagus collection of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung with special tableware and cutlery. It displays tableware from five centuries. On the first floor, there is also an asparagus table with touch displays that guests can use to customize their asparagus table. The upper floor is for younger visitors. A tractor with a computer screen awaits them here. The children can create a virtual asparagus plantation and cut asparagus. The rabbit Mio is also there as an identification figure. Large-scale equipment such as a deep plow, a ridge scraper, the first asparagus peeling machine and a small asparagus field are presented in the outdoor area. One highlight is the largest asparagus sculpture in the world. Read more Good to know ------------ Openings The Museum Nienburg is closed on the following days: Between Christmas and the beginning of January Good Friday Easter Monday Whit Monday Dayoff: Monday Read more Price info Price adult: €4.00 Price child: €3.00 Price reduced: €3.00 Price family: €8.00 Information on reduced prices: Trainees over the age of 18, participants in voluntary service (BUFDI, FSJ etc.). Students up to the age of 27, unemployed persons, welfare recipients, severely disabled persons with 50 GdB or more and persons of equal status (on presentation of a corresponding ID) Read more Author Mittelweser-Touristik GmbHLange Straße 18 31582 Nienburg/Weser Organization Mittelweser-Touristik GmbH License (master data) Mittelweser-Touristik GmbH This content has been partially or completely optimised or created by AI.* Nearby ------ View on map - Event - Christmas market - Weekly market - Place of interest - Museum - Historical building - Half-timbered house - Tours 21.90 km - Bicycle 58.74 km - Bicycle 22.00 km - Bicycle Contact Leinstraße 4 31582 Nienburg (Weser)