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This is a follow-up to Observatories that allow public access with a smaller (geographical) scope.

I am interested in getting to know observatories in central Europe (e.g. France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Austria) where you could could go with a class of school children or university students. Maybe you could add more entries to my list, please?

I tried to find some European website with such a list, but I was not successful yet.

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There are plenty of possibilities - and often, even when not publicly advertized, many observatories will be very open to find an arrangement when approached, especially by a group of interested audience. So this list IMHO would be the complete list of possible observatories found in central Europe.

The wiki page on astronomical outreach resources in Europe has such list of observatories (well, for the whole world, but filter it) - mostly the professional ones; of course it's not complete, e.g. the Thuringian observatory at Tautenburg is missing (who also offer regularily public tours) as does the GEO600, the gravitational wave observatory near Hannover.

There are various lists for amateur associations, many have their own observatory, e.g. this one lists many in the DACH countries sorted by post code.

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  • Thanks for the quick answer, and the links to the lists. You guessed right that I am mainly interested in the sites inside the DACH region, but France is close enough plus many of the group know French so that it is an option as well. – B--rian Jan 26 '21 at 10:50