Museums and music.

Every town of any size has its own museum of local history, but the regional museum in Gottorf Palace near Schleswig enjoys a particularly high reputation nationwide. Other notable attractions are the Molfsee Open-Air Museum near Kiel, which offes a glimpse of what country life was like years ago, and the museum on the site of the old Viking town Haithabu. For eight weeks during the summer - 1 995 marked the tenth year in succession - the entire state of Schleswig-Holstein is transformed into a concert hall. The Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, established at the initiative of the pianist Justus Frantz with the assistance of the state government, entices international stars and audiences to such unusual settings as barns and stalls - but also to estates, manor houses ? pa’aces- Many prominent literary figures, too, nave chosen to live in Schleswig-Holstein, among inem Gunter Grass, Gunter Kunert, Siegfried Lenz and Sarah Kirsch.