List of museums in Dresden

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Location of museums in the center of Dresden

With the list of museums in Dresden , it can be seen in summary that Dresden has a diverse museum landscape that is a composition of historically significant and valuable younger institutions. Some museums have been known for a long time beyond regional and national borders and have provided important impulses for the promotion of the arts, within the framework of the reform movements of the 20th century and with significant scientific developments. This cultural contribution by Dresden, which lasted for several centuries and currently has around 50 museums, is of European importance.

General

The well-known museums of the State Art Collections play a pioneering role and attract hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, including the Old Masters Picture Gallery and the Green Vault . Museums of national importance are the German Hygiene Museum and the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr . Other museum associations in the city are the natural history collections and the museums of the city of Dresden . The spectrum with regard to the size of the museums ranges from the six million objects of the zoological art to the few 100 exhibits of the now closed Sparkasse Museum . The great thematic variety should be emphasized. A good dozen of the museums are devoted to various aspects of Dresden's history . The group of art museums is about as large , and there are also several explicitly personal museums. Another important group are the technology and transport museums, including three different museums about rail vehicles in Dresden. The museums are spread over the entire city area, but concentrate particularly on the two inner city districts of the Old Town and Neustadt , where two thirds of all Dresden museums are located. The district with the most museums is the inner old town with 17 museums , in which the most important museum buildings are also located with the Residenzschloss , the Zwinger and the Albertinum .

Many of the state's own museums originally go back to the art chamber of the Saxon electors, in which various riches have been amassed since 1560. Gradually they were spun off from the Kunstkammer as independent collections. A total of 20 Dresden museums were built during the time of the Electorate or Kingdom of Saxony , i.e. before 1918. About the same number of museums, however, were only founded after the fall of the Wall . These are mostly independent museums . As a result of the air raids on Dresden in 1945, many inner-city buildings were lost, some of them including their exhibitions, but were largely rebuilt. Exceptions are the total losses of the Schilling and Körner museums of the former municipal collections , the three historical Dresden school museums as well as the orangery in The Duchess Garden and the neighboring box house . From the museum of the Royal Saxon Antiquities Association , which was largely destroyed along with the palace in the Great Garden , some remnants were preserved because they had been relocated and were transferred to the sculpture collection after the war . The war losses of the Dresden Crime Museum were just as enormous, whereas the stocks of the Saxon Post Office that had been outsourced were only lost in the immediate post-war period. The concrete timeline is currently closed for a longer period due to lack of space, the collotype workshop in Dresden due to renovation work and the doll museum in Dresden . The exhibits of the Automobile Museum Dresden , which existed from 2003 to 2005, were in the GDR Museum Zeitreise in the neighboring town of Radebeul until 2016 . The Dresden Bicycle Museum closed in 2002 .

Legend

  • Image: Usually shows the museum building or important exhibits. In individual cases, emblems or people are depicted whose names are closely connected to the museum.
  • Name: gives the name of the respective museum.
  • Sponsorship: Name the respective sponsor. “State” stands for a museum owned by the Free State of Saxony . “National” stands for the Military History Museum , which is in the hands of the Bundeswehr. “ Independent sponsors ” are mostly associations or foundations, in individual cases also companies or private individuals.
  • Subject: Name the subject of the museum. A distinction is made between the groups “history”, “art”, “literature”, “music”, “natural history”, “numismatics”, “toys”, “technology” and “traffic”.
  • Foundation: states the year the museum was founded or the approximate date of foundation.
  • Building: Name of the building in which the museum is housed.
  • City district: Names the city district or, in the case of Schönfeld-Weißig, the town where the museum is located.

Museums in Dresden

image Surname Sponsorship theme founding building Borough
Dresden-Johannstadt Plattenbaumuseum.jpg Concrete timeline Free History ( prefabricated building ) 2004 former plate factory Johannstadt Old town
SLUB Dresden entrance.jpg Book Museum of the SLUB Dresden State literature 1935 SLUB Dresden Plauen
Federal Archives Image 183-R0603-0020, Dresden, Weber-Haus.jpg Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Museum Communal music 1957 Weber House Loschwitz
Hygiene Museum.jpg German Hygiene Museum State and municipal Natural history 1912 German Hygiene Museum Old town
BR03-001.jpg Railway museum of the Dresden-Altstadt depot Free traffic 2002 Former Dresden- Altstadt depot
Plauen
180804 dresden-kaestnerhaus-plastic-on-wall 2-640x480.jpg Erich Kästner Museum Free literature 1999 Villa Augustin Neustadt
Church in Eschdorf (Dresden) .jpg
Eschdorf
Museum in the attic
Free History
( Eschdorf district )
1996 St. Barbara Church Schönfeld-Weißig
Environmental Center250107.jpg Dresden Bicycle Museum Free traffic 1990 Environmental Center Dresden Old town
Telecommunication Museum Dresden 03.jpg Telecommunication Museum Dresden Free Communications 1999 Telekom building at Postplatz Dresden Old town
Brühlich Terrace Dresden 11.jpg
Dresden Fortress Free History (military) 1992 Bruehl Terrace Old town
Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion.jpg Dresden Football Museum Free History ( soccer ) 2006 Dresden Stadium
(at the Great Garden )
Old town
Caspar David Friedrich - The Cross in the Mountains.jpg
New Masters Gallery State art 1931 Albertinum Old town
Bautzner Strasse memorial site.jpg Bautzner Strasse memorial in Dresden State history 1997 former Stasi headquarters in Dresden Neustadt
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1985-0506-014, Dresden, Denkmal.jpg Münchner Platz memorial in Dresden State history 1959 Georg Schumann Building of
the TU Dresden
Plauen
Dresden-Zwinger-Courtyard.13.JPG Old Masters Picture Gallery State art 1722 Picture gallery Old town
New Green Vault - Court of Delhi on the birthday of the Mughal emperor.jpg green Vault State art 1720s Dresden Residenzschloss Old town
Wallgäßchen 2 Dresden 2.JPG
Hans Koernig Museum Free art 2011 Wallgäßchen 2 Neustadt
Johann Georg Palitzsch.jpg
Palitzsch Museum Communal History
( Prohlis district ),
astronomy
1988 Palitzschhof Prohlis
GT Bienert.jpg
Hofmühle Dresden Free History
( Plauen district ),
technology ,
Gret Palucca
2006 Hofmühle Plauen
Fetscherstraße 2011 020.JPG JohannStadthalle
(permanent exhibition living culture)
Free History
( Johannstadt district )
2012 Johann City Hall Old town
Hegenbarth Archive.JPG Josef Hegenbarth Archive State art 1998 Hegenbarth House Loschwitz
Kleinbauernmuseum Reitzendorf.JPG Reitzendorf smallholder museum Free History (agriculture) 1992 Smallholder Museum Schönfeld-Weißig
Energy Museum Dresden.jpg KraftWerk - Dresden Energy Museum Communal technology 2002 formerly Dresden-Mitte thermal power station Old town
Federal Archives Image 183-57037-0001, Dresden, Kraszewski-Gedenktafel.jpg
Kraszewski Museum Communal literature 1960 Kraszewski House Neustadt
Dresden Kuegelgenhaus.jpg
Kügelgenhaus - Museum of Dresden Romanticism Communal literature 1981 Kügelgenhaus Neustadt
050628-schlosspillnitz.jpg Decorative Arts Museum State art 1876 Pillnitz Castle Loschwitz
Dresden University of Fine Arts 1.jpg Art gallery in the Lipsius building State art 2005 Art academy Old town
Kunsthaus 1.jpg
Kunsthaus Dresden Communal art 1981 Kunsthaus Dresden Neustadt
Dresden Residenzschloss 01.jpg Kupferstichkabinett Dresden State art 1720 Dresden Residenzschloss Old town
Rotheamsel01.jpg Leonhardi Museum Communal art 1905 Hentschelmühle Loschwitz
Math-phys-Salon1.jpg
Mathematical and physical salon State technology 1724 Kennel Old town
Bundeswehr Museum Dresden 10.jpg Military history museum of the Bundeswehr National History (military) 1914 former Arsenal Neustadt
Museum aktfotoARTdresden Villa.jpg Museum Aktfotoart Dresden Free Nude photo art 2019 villa Neustadt
Black-band ironstone (aka) .jpg Museum for Mineralogy and Geology Dresden State Natural history 1857 Adolf Bernhard Meyer Building Klotzsche
Rezidenc.jpg Coin Cabinet State numismatics 1670 (approx.) Dresden Residenzschloss Old town
Dresden-Panometer.jpg Panometer Dresden Free history 2006 Gasometer of the former
Reick gas works
Blowjoke
Dresden Police Headquarters 2.jpg Police Museum Dresden State History ( police ) 1894 Police Headquarters Old town
Dresden Porcelain Collection.JPG Porcelain collection State art 1715 Kennel Old town
Doll Museum Dresden.JPG Doll Museum Dresden Free toy 2002 Villa Romantika Neustadt
Dresden Jägerhof.jpg Puppet theater collection State art 1918 (circa) Jägerhof Neustadt
Dresden-Zwinger-Armory-Entrance.JPG
Armory
(with Türckischer Cammer )
State History (military) 1480s (circa) Dresden Residenzschloss Old town
Dresden Jägerhof.JPG Museum of Saxon Folk Art State art 1913 Jägerhof Neustadt
Art + Technology Görgesbau.JPG Collections and art holdings of the TU Dresden
(including the historical dye collection and the color theory collection )
State technology 1810 ff. Technical University Dresden Plauen
Schiller House Dresden.JPG Schiller house Communal literature 2005 Schiller house Loschwitz
Pillnitz Palace Neues Palais.jpg Pillnitz Castle Museum State History ( building ) 2003 Pillnitz Castle Loschwitz
School Museum Dresden.jpg
School Museum Dresden Free History (school) 2006 formerly 48th elementary school Old town
SKULP.jpg Sculpture collection State art 1729 Albertinum Old town
Dresden-Sparkassenmuseum.jpg Sparkasse Museum Free History ( Sparkasse ) 1999 Elbcenter (formerly) Pieschen
Landhausstr.5.jpg Dresden City Museum Communal History of Dresden 1891 Country house Old town
Städtische Galerie Dresden View in permanent exhibition.JPG Dresden Municipal Gallery Communal art 2002 Country house Old town
Tram-union-937-dresden.jpg Tram Museum Dresden Free traffic 1991 Trachenberge depot Pieschen
Pentacon-Gebaeude.jpg
Technical Collections Dresden Communal Technology , fire brigade 1966 Ernemann works Blowjoke
Stamps of Germany (GDR) 1978, MiNr 2370.jpg
Museum of Animal Science Dresden State Natural history 1728 Adolf Bernhard Meyer Building Klotzsche
Dresden Johanneum 01.jpg Transport Museum Dresden State traffic 1956 Johanneum Old town
Dresden Japanese Palace.jpg Museum of Ethnology Dresden State Ethnology 1875 Japanese palace Neustadt
Windbergbahnmuseum 1.jpg Museum of the history of the Windbergbahn Free traffic 1988 Dresden-Gittersee train station Plauen

See also

Web links and sources

Commons : Museums in Dresden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Sources and Notes

  1. "... opened in 1996 ... an original museum of local history, ... also some pictures by the landscape painter Willy Tag, who lived in Eschdorf until his death in 1980 ..." (www.dresdner-stadtteile.de)
  2. “Using the example of Johannstadt, the new exhibition“ WohnKultur ”tells the story of housing construction from the years after World War II to today and beyond. A show that is unique in Germany… ” ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 90 kB)
    “ The 'WohnKultur' exhibition complements the offer of JohannStadthalle e. V. A large number of events in the cultural center are linked to offers from the exhibition. ”(Www.johannstadthalle.de)
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