List of museums in 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
See also
Web links and sources
- dresden.de
- deutschland-auf-einen-blick.de
- dresden-und-sachsen.de
- Kulturbox.de
- dresden-bilder.de (Museums section)
- dresden-online.de
Sources and Notes
- ↑ "... 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)
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↑ “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)