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The Botanical Garden is right next to the zoo.
The Botanischer Garten Augsburg is a municipal botanical garden located at Dr.-Ziegenspeck-Weg 10, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged.
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Zoo of medium size in a nice setting along a brook.
Modern and classic fairy tales are played at the Augsburger Puppenkiste. The stars on strings are so endearing and the sets so elaborate that even non-German speakers (and non-kids) will enjoy a show. It's often sold out; make advance reservations or check with the tourist office for remaining tickets.
The Bahnpark Augsburg, a railway museum in a historic 1906 locomotive depot, showcases Europe’s railway history with locomotives like the operational 41 018, restored in its workshops. The “Rundhaus Europa” displays historic trains, complemented by a model railway and a 7¼-inch Mini-Bahn.
Augsburg's newest museum broaches the issue of the city's drapery industry. If you are interested in history, this is very interesting as it shows the economical history of Germany on the example of the drapery in Augsburg - also very interesting for anyone who is interested in technical functions of clothing production. Every 2 hours (10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00) retired clothing engineers show the functions of old machines featured in the drapery production. This costs an extra €1. It's very crowded on Sundays. There is also a restaurant/café inside the museum, called Nino. It's good, though a bit expensive. To get there from the city center, take tram 6 in the direction Friedberg until Textilmuseum. Then cross the street and go left through an area full of unused old factories, it reflects the presence of drapery industry in Augsburg. The museum is in an old factory hall.
Olympic canoe slalom course
Artificial white-water channel built 1970–72 for the Munich Olympics, still a national slalom centre and part of the UNESCO water-management site (it taps the Lech). Walk the banks; no regular guided tour. Low water on the Lech can thin the flow.
Weavers’ House
Former weavers’ guild house. The 1389 original was the centre of Augsburg’s cloth trade until the guilds were dissolved; the painted guild parlour is now in Munich’s Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. What you see is a 1913 replacement (Otto Holzer), rebuilt after 1944 and after a 2004 fire. The façade paintings (Otto Michael Schmitt, 1959/60, later renewed) are the point - look from the square, don’t expect a public interior. The Merkur fountain beside it is part of the UNESCO water-management site.