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=== Museums === Gotha hosts various museums, which are – together with the ducal buildings – promoted as the ''Gothaer Barock-Universum'' ("Baroque universe of Gotha"). * Friedenstein Castle hosts the following museums: ** The ''Ekhof Theatre'' is a Baroque court theatre and the world's only 17th century theatre with original stage machinery still working. ** The ''Historic Museum'' hosts an exhibition about municipal and regional history and culture of Gotha. ** The ''[[Museum of Nature Gotha|Museum of Nature]]'' shows a natural history exhibition with animals, minerals and fossils. ** The ''Castle Museum'' contains the former ducal living rooms and several items of cultural history. * The ''[[Ducal Museum Gotha|Ducal Museum]]'' opposite to the castle hosts the ducal collection of art, containing Egyptian antiques, Renaissance [[Old Master]]s paintings, Chinese and [[Meissen porcelain|Meissen]] porcelaine and more. * The ''Insurance Museum'' at Bahnhofstraße is Germany's only museum on the history of the insurance business, which has been important in Gotha since 1820. * The ''Tivoli'' at Cosmarstraße is the place where the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]] was founded and hosts a small exhibition on the party's history. ==== Image gallery ==== <gallery> File:Bühne des Ekhof-Theaters.JPG|Ekhof Theatre File:Westturm Friedenstein Gotha.JPG|The Historic Museum and the Museum of Nature are located in Friedenstein's western tower File:Gotha-exponate-010.jpg|One of the rooms at Castle Museum File:Thuringia Gotha asv2020-07 img28 Herzogliches Museum.jpg|Ducal Museum – Gotha's art historical and antiquities museum File:Thuringia Gotha asv2020-07 img07 Versicherungsmuseum.jpg|Insurance Museum File:Thuringia Gotha asv2020-07 img29 Gothaer Tivoli.jpg|Tivoli </gallery>
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