Burghof Museum

The castle courtyard, a former patrician residence, still consists of the so-called Romanesque House (around 1200), the former manor house (1559) and the Daelen Gate (1551). The Romanesque House is the surviving part of an originally larger house. It is considered one of the oldest preserved secular residential buildings in Westfalen. The stately late Gothic/Renaissance manor house has remained almost unchanged on the outside, but the interior has been redesigned several times over the course of its history. Above the part with the cellar, stucco reliefs worth seeing from the time of construction have been preserved in the banqueting hall, the so-called Knights' Hall. They were added in 1939 by the sculptor Wilhelm Wulff.

The Daelen gate takes its name from the former owners, the von Dael family.The town history museum set up in the Burghof-Museum displays exhibitions on the town and church history, copperplate engravings by Heinrich Aldegrever (1502 to approx. 1555) and the exhibition "Everyday life in the Middle Ages" on the various floors. The prehistory and early history section also includes the famous "garnet disk fibula" from the early medieval burial ground on Lübecker Ring. The last abbess's chair from the St. Walburgis monastery, finds from the Paradiese monastery and other treasures are also on display. Today, the Knights' Hall is also used for receptions by the town of Soest and as a wedding hall

. The Burghofmuseum Soest is an attraction of WasserEisenLand - Industriekultur Südwestfalen.