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Connects the former school with the choice of an artistic profession and the museum's present-day work.

At the flag bastion, two ceremonies show how the new state order was established through a flag and a name.

Needed to trace the dispute between the official and colloquial names of a single urban place.

Here, the construction of a ship will come up against a granite barrier between the completed hull and the sea.

The route ends with the story of how a home-like layout became a working hospital.

The ceremonial facade leads from a dispute over the law to a man who decided to use a weapon.

This stop connects the site of the fortress administration with the burial place of the man who directed its construction.

The staircase and the altarpiece will show how a monarch's decisions became fixed in the appearance of a Lutheran church.

Shows how trading in used goods returned a public role to the city square.

Checks what remained of the private-villa project after apartment construction arrived.

It will show how the military organized the inspection of arrivals, the guard, and soldiers’ daily life around the new northern entrance.

The final stop will examine the inspection of an unfinished fortress, after which the construction manager kept his position.

By the water, it becomes clear why one city fair survived bans and returned to selling from vessels.

The former imperial residence concludes the story of the choice between a crown and a republic.

The monument at the center will connect civic ceremony with mass opposition to the emperor.

Explains the competition after which the winning altarpiece ended up in another city.

Here, the military change of power becomes visible in the shape of the tower, the fate of church property, and the lighthouse signal.

Here, state history gives way to cultural history—with a young composer's gamble and an overflowing concert hall.