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Museums in Dresden
Armoury in the Giants' Hall
One of the world’s most precious collections of ceremonial weapons and costumes, the Dresden Armoury has its origins in the estates of the Saxon dukes and electoral princes.
Art Fund
The Kunstfonds collection encompasses more than 23,000 works of all media of the visual arts including painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography, applied art, concept art, video art and installation art as well as art in the public realm.
Bautzner Straße Memorial
The remand centre of the Dresden district administration of the German Democratic Republic’s Ministry of State Security (Stasi) in Bautzner Strasse is now a memorial.
Botanical Garden
Botanical gardens are a special kind of “museum”: they afford unique insights into the world of living plants, and their appearance changes from one day to the next.
Bundeswehr Museum of Military History
The Bundeswehr Museum of Military History in Dresden is one of the three major historical museums in Germany, as well as one of the most innovative military museums in the world.
Carl Maria von Weber Museum
A visit to Dresden-Hosterwitz offers the chance of a good long walk with a musical theme.
Coin Cabinet
Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs
Dresden’s Kupferstich-Kabinett is one of Europe’s oldest museums of drawings, prints and photographs, and one of the most important.
Court Mill – Museum of Local History
For over six hundred years life at the northern entrance to the famous Plauen Valley was dominated by the presence of mills.
Custody of the TU Dresden, permanent exhibition
In the permanent exhibition, the Office of Academic Heritage, Scientific, and Art Collections (OAH) shows a cross section of the scientific-technical collections of the university, as well as documents and objects relating to the university's history.
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DenkRaum Sophienkirche
The former Sophienkirche was a sacred building not far from the Zwinger and shaped the history of the country and the city for centuries.
Dresden City Art Museum
The permanent exhibition at Dresden’s municipal art museum offers visitors an overview of Dresden art of the 20th and 21st centuries, with works by such artists as Eugen Bracht, Robert Diez, Hubertus Giebe, Ernst Grämer, Hans Grundig, Olaf Holzapfel, Kai Hügel, Eric Johansson, Hans Jüchser, Ralf Kerbach, Hans Körnig, Karl Kröner, Georg Lührig, Kurt Magritz, Wilhelm Müller, Hermann Naumann, Rudolf Nehmer, Dietrich Nitzsche, Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf, Robert Sterl, Erika Streit and Werner Wittig.
Dresden City Museum
In the Landhaus, only a few metres away from Dresden’s Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), is the Dresden Municipal Museum.
Dresden Panometer
The Dresden Panometer presents its visitors an entirely unique exhibition concept.
Dresden Park Railway in the "Great Garden", Miniature Steam Train
The Dresden Park Railway is a tourist attraction in the Grosser Garten.
Dresden School Museum
Is school so out-dated that it’s only fit for a museum? Absolutely not! All the same, it could be quite instructive to look back at how schools have changed over time.
Dresden Transport Museum
The Transport Museum on the Neumarkt invites you on an eventful journey through the history of transport.
Dresden branch of the archives of the former East German secret police
The archive holds documents from the Ministry of State Security for the former administrative region of Dresden.
Erich Kästner Museum
The Erich Kästner Museum has successfully implemented a new type of museum concept.
Ethnographic Museum Dresden
The Dresden Ethnographic Museum in the Japanese Palais opened on 8 December 2016. Its holdings encompass more than 100,000 objects from all over the world.
Exhibition Hall, Lipsius Building, Brühl Terrace
The richly decorated building complex was named the “Lipsius Building” after its creator, the architecture professor Constantin Lipsius.
Festung Xperience
Gallery of the Office for Academic Heritage in the Görges Building, TU Dresden
The Gallery in the Görges building is the exhibition gallery of the Dresden University of Applied Sciences and its Office of Academic Heritage.
Historic Green Vault
The Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault) is renowned worldwide as one of the richest treasure chambers in Europe.
Historical Telecommunications Museum
The Historical Telecommunications Association is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, maintenance and restoration to working order of telecommunications equipment.
Josef Hegenbarth Archive
The widow Johanna Hegenbarth donated the house, complete with the estate contained within it, on the condition that it would be made accessible to the public as a place of commemoration.
Kraszewski Museum
Germany’s first bi-national museum opened its doors in 1960 in the romantic setting of the former residence of Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812– 1887).
Kügelgen House – Museum of Dresden Romanticism
The late 17th-century house named “Gottessegen” (God’s blessing), also known as the "Kügelgenhaus", is in the Innere Neustadt.
Leonhardi Museum - Gallery of Contemporary Art
The building itself is fascinating: known since 1785 as the Hentschel-Mühle (Hentschel Mill), it was bought in 1879 by Eduard Leonhardi, a pupil of Ludwig Richter.
Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art
The Kunsthaus Dresden shows current international art as well as young positions from the region.
Museum about Dresden-Neustadt-District
The legendary “Bunte Republik Neustadt” (“Colourful Republic of Neustadt”) was proclaimed in the Neustadt district of Dresden in 1990. Having deteriorated significantly under the German Democratic Republican regime, the Neustadt offered a lot of scope for creativity and neighbourly cooperation.
Museum of Decorative Arts
The Kunstgewerbemuseum is located in Pillnitz Palace, the idyllically situated summer residence of the Saxon royal dynasty.
Museum of Mathematical and Physical Instruments
The Mathematical-Physical Salon houses a world-famous collection of historical clocks and scientific instruments.
Museum of Saxon Folk Art and Puppet Theatre Collection
Anyone, young or old, who would like to get to know and enjoy the wealth of folk art created in Saxony will find a unique display of it in the atmospheric setting of the Jägerhof.
Museum of Technology and Industry
Münchner Platz Memorial Dresden
Ladislav Vojtech is one of nearly 850 Czechs to have been executed in Dresden during World War II.
New Green Vault
One of the world’s most well-known and richest treasure chamber museums, the New Green Vault is the perfect enhancement to its historical counterpart.
New Masters Gallery and Sculpture Collection from 1800
With its innovative concept, the “Albertinum: Art from the Romantic period to the present day” stands for a fresh start in art presentation in Dresden.
Old Masters Picture Gallery with Sculpture Collection until 1800
In this museum, a dense presentation of superb paintings from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment spreads out over three floors, with special focusses on various themes, genres, artistic currents, techniques, etc.
Palitzsch Museum
The permanent exhibition is devoted to the 7,000-year history of Prohlis, the life and work of farmer-astronomer Johann Georg Palitzsch, and the basics of astronomy.
Pillnitz Castle and Park
At the beginning of the 18th century, Augustus the Strong gave Pillnitz Palace to his mistress, Countess Cosel.
Porcelain Collection
The Porzellansammlung is the most important and, with around 20,000 items, the largest specialized ceramic collection in the world.
Power Station – Dresden Energy Museum
Provision with power, gas, long-distance heat and water has contributed decisively to shaping our day and age and introduced fundamental changes to private life and the economy.
Schiller Pavilion
At the invitation of Christian Gottfried Körner, Friedrich Schiller travelled to Dresden in 1785. He enjoyed the harmonious atmosphere of the vineyard property owned by the Körner family, and would often withdraw to this small summerhouse, where he worked on the manuscript of Don Carlos and completed his Ode to Joy.
Senckenberg Natural History Collections
he Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden present changing exhibitions on zoology as well as mineralogy and geology in the Japanese Palace.
Small Farmers' Museum
Anyone who has come here once will be glad to come again, or at the very least will warmly recommend this museum to others: no wonder, for the Kleinbauernmuseum, opened in 1992, really is something special, and completely unique in the region.
Steam Locomotive Museum
The railway museum at the former Dresden-Altstadt railway depot at the foot of the Nossener Brücke offers a hands-on railway experience.
The Human Adventure
Just a stone's throw from Dresden's Frauenkirche, the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum invites you to experience people and their bodies.
Tram Museum
To ride through Dresden in an original tram from a museum: this is the very special experience offered by the Straßenbahnmuseum Dresden e.