It’s all too easy to ignore the good stuff that’s right on our doorsteps. How often do you put off a visit to a museum or site of interest in your own hometown, sure you’ll make it there -- someday?

Here are some things happening in the places many of us call home that might tempt you to make your next cultural foray to someplace close by. Have you heard of anything noteworthy yourself, or have you been to any of these? If so, leave us a note.

Stuttgart -- Opening just last week and running through March 24, 2008, is “Egyptian Mummies -- Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs” now on exhibit at the Landesmuseum Württemberg. More than 300 objects depicting the development of mummification over a period stretching nearly 4,000 years are on display, and there’s a special exhibit for the kids.

Mannheim -- In parallel to Stuttgart’s Egyptian exhibit, Mannheim’s Reiss-Engelhorn Museum will be showing some 50 mummies, of both the human and animal variety. This event closes on March 24 as well, so don’t put it off indefinitely. The showing is not without controversy. See Deutsche Welle’s “The Lost Mummies of Mannheim Meet The Public.”

Nuremberg – It’s not too late to catch the tail end of “Matisse Jazz - Das Musée Matisse zu Gast in Nürnberg,” which is running through Nov. 4 at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. The exhibition has been organized in cooperation with the Musée Matisse in Nice, France, and focuses on the works “Jazz” and “Pasiphaé.” On Oct. 21, the museum is holding a day dedicated to the works of Matisse.

Saarbrücken- Die-hard fans of Picasso should make their way on over to the Saarland Museum’s Moderne Galerie between Nov. 10, 2007, and Feb. 28, 2008, to see an exhibit of the artist’s works of the 1950’s.