Brothers Grimm museum set to reopen

Brothers Grimm museum set to reopen
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Germany's museum to the Brothers Grimm, the collectors of fairy tales who introduced the world to Cinderella, Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, has closed and will and reopen under a new name on a new site next year.

The city of Kassel in central Germany, where Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm lived from 1798 to 1841, is spending 20 million euros ($A30 million) to build "Grimmwelt" (Grimm World), a modern Grimm visitor centre in a city park.

The old museum, in a 300-year-old downtown house where the Grimms never actually lived, closed in October, but will retain a small exhibition until next year describing the new project, set to open in mid-2015.

The Grimms published their first fairytale collection in 1812.

They picked up the stories while collecting words for a massive scholarly dictionary of the German language, and the old museum put more focus on their work as linguists rather than as storytellers.

"That wasn't very suitable for children," said Dorothee Rhiemeier, the head of the culture department at Kassel City Council.

The museum must close now so the exhibits can be examined by experts and restored where necessary, Grimmwelt cheif Susanne Voelker said.

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