Museums/Galleries in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia

Sights Overview

Name	Category	Location

Albertinum The Albertinum is named after Saxony's King Albert, who between...	Museums / Galleries	Dresden

Bach-Museum im Bach-Archiv Leipzig The Bach family home, the old Bosehaus, stands opposite the Thomaskirche...	Museums / Galleries	Leipzig

Bachhaus Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685. The Bachhaus...	Museums / Galleries	Eisenach

Bauhaus Museum Walter Gropius founded the Staatliches Bauhaus, or Bauhaus design...	Museums / Galleries	Weimar

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden This unique (even in a country with a national tendency for excessive...	Museums / Galleries	Dresden


Franziskanerkirche The city's medieval past is recounted in the museum of the Franziskanerkirche...	Museums / Galleries	Meissen

Goethe Nationalmuseum Goethe spent 57 years in Weimar, 47 of them in a house two blocks...	Museums / Galleries	Weimar

Grassimuseum British star architect David Chipperfield restored and modernized...	Museums / Galleries	Leipzig

Händelhaus Handel's birthplace, the Händelhaus, is now a museum devoted...	Museums / Galleries	Halle

Haus der Geschichte The museum Haus der Geschichte is a valiant attempt to evaluate...	Museums / Galleries	Lutherstadt-Wittenberg

Johanneum At one time the royal stables, this 16th-century building now...	Museums / Galleries	Dresden

Kaiserpfalz The impressive Kaiserpfalz, set high above the historic downtown...	Museums / Galleries	Goslar

Lutherhaus The Lutherhaus, in downtown Eisenach, has many fascinating exhibits...	Museums / Galleries	Eisenach

Lyonel Feininger Gallery Placed behind half-timber houses so as not to affect the town's...	Museums / Galleries	Quedlinburg

Melanchthonhaus In the elegantly gabled Renaissance Melanchthonhaus, the humanist...	Museums / Galleries	Lutherstadt-Wittenberg

Mendelssohn Haus The only surviving residence of the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy...	Museums / Galleries	Leipzig

Moritzburg The Moritzburg was built in the late 15th century by the archbishop...	Museums / Galleries	Halle

Museum der Bildenden Künste The city's leading art gallery is minimalism incarnate, set in...	Museums / Galleries	Leipzig

Museum in der Runden Ecke This building once served as the headquarters of the city's secret...	Museums / Galleries	Leipzig

Museum zum Arabischen Kaffeebaum This museum and café-restaurant tells the fascinating...	Museums / Galleries	Leipzig

Neue Residenz The former archbishop's home, the 16th-century Neue Residenz...	Museums / Galleries	Halle

Neues Museum Weimar The city is proud of the Neues Museum Weimar, eastern Germany's...	Museums / Galleries	Weimar

Nietzsche Haus Museum The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's family lived in Naumburg...	Museums / Galleries	Naumburg

Reuter-Wagner-Museum Composer Richard Wagner gets his due at the Reuter-Wagner-Museum...	Museums / Galleries	Eisenach

Schlesisches Museum The Schlesisches Museum explores 900 years of Silesian culture...	Museums / Galleries	Görlitz

Stadtmuseum Dresden im Landhaus The city's small but fascinating municipal museum tells the ups...	Museums / Galleries	Dresden

Ständerbau Fachwerkmuseum The oldest half-timber house in Quedlinburg, built about 1310...	Museums / Galleries	Quedlinburg

Technikmuseum Hugo Junkers The Bauhaus isn't the only show in town. Professor Hugo Junkers...	Museums / Galleries	Dessau

Technisches Halloren- und Salinemuseum The salt trade on which Halle built its prosperity is documented...	Museums / Galleries	Halle

Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig This is an excellent museum of postwar German history. It focuses...	Museums / Galleries	Leipzig

Zwinger Dresden's magnificent baroque showpiece is entered by way of...	Museums / Galleries	Dresden
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