Museums of the city of Dresden

The Landhaus Dresden - seat of the city museum (2008)

The museums of the city of Dresden are a network of ten municipal museums in the Saxon state capital. After the State Art Collections , the museums of the city of Dresden are the second largest association of museums in Dresden .

Museums

• The Dresden City Museum , founded in 1891, forms the core of the Dresden City Museums . The city ​​history museum has been located in the country house since 1966 .
• The Städtische Galerie Dresden emerged from 2002 as a municipal art museum out of the city museum and, like this one, is located in the country house.
• The Dresden Technical Collections are the municipal technology museum and science center in the Ernemann building in the Striesen district .
• As a municipal gallery for contemporary art with changing exhibitions, the Kunsthaus Dresden in the Inner Neustadt offers insights into the world's art.
• The Leonhardi Museum is located in the former Hentschelmühle in Loschwitzgrund and, in addition to pictures by the museum's founder, also shows changing exhibitions of contemporary art.
• The Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Museum is a music museum in Hosterwitz , which is dedicated to the composer Carl Maria von Weber in his former summer residence.
• The Kraszewski Museum is the first bi-national museum in Germany and is dedicated to the Polish writer, painter, historian and composer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.
• The Kügelgenhaus - Museum of the Dresden Romanticism is located in the Inner Neustadt and presents the artists of the Romantic era who worked in Dresden .
• The Palitzsch Museum focuses on the local history of Prohlis and the farmer Johann George Palitzsch , the discoverer of Halley's comet .
• The Schillerhäuschen in Loschwitz pays tribute to the national poet's stay and his relationship with the Körner family .

history

The museum association was established in 1919 as the “Dresden City Collections”. Under this name, the Dresden City Museum , founded in 1891 , the former Körner Museum , which had been accessible since 1885, and the former Schilling Museum opened in 1888, on the initiative of Georg Minde-Pouet, were placed under joint management. The Körnermuseum was located in Christian Gottfried Körner's house near the Japanese Palace , which was destroyed in 1945, and dealt with works by his son Theodor , among other things . The Schilling Museum in the Pirnaische Vorstadt was dedicated to the sculptor Johannes Schilling ; the building was built according to plans by his son Rudolf . While the city museum still exists today, the other two museums fell victim to the air raids on Dresden in 1945 .

From 1950 the municipal collections were housed in what was then the city ​​hall in Albertstadt . From 1956 they consisted of two departments, one of which emerged from the City Museum and the other from the Museum for the History of the Dresden Workers' Movement, which was newly created in the early GDR period. From 1957 the previous head of the Kulturbund in Dresden, Linus Hamann , took over the management of the municipal collections. The Dresden City Museum was re-established in 1966 as the Institute and Museum for the History of the City of Dresden. It maintained the C.-M.-v.-Weber-Museum established in 1957, the Kraszewski-Museum opened in 1960, the Museum of the Dresden Romanticism and the Schillerhäuschen as branch offices. Since 1990 it has been called the City Museum again.

The Dresden Technical Collections and the Prohlis Museum of Local History and Palitzsch at the time were also assigned to the municipal museums. In 2002, an eighth museum was added through the spin-off of the municipal gallery from the city museum. Gisbert Porstmann has been the director of the museums of the city of Dresden since 2008 .

In 2015, 177,000 guests visited the museums of the city of Dresden. This corresponds to an increase of four percent compared to 2014. In 2017, 216,800 visitors came to the eight museums, most of them (95,470) to the technical collections .

Trivia

The KraftWerk - Dresden Energy Museum is operated by Drewag , 90 percent of which is owned by the city.

literature

• Museum for the History of the City of Dresden. In: Manfred Bachmann , Hans Prescher (Ed.): Museums in Dresden. Leipzig 1991, pp. 174-180.

Web links

Commons : Museums of the City of Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage Museums of the City of Dresden
• Homepage Dresden City Museum
• Homepage Dresden City Gallery
• Homepage Technical Collections Dresden

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Dresden: Gisbert Porstmann becomes the new director of the museums of the city of Dresden , September 24, 2008 , accessed on February 26, 2018.
2. ↑ Dresden City Museums with increased visitor numbers - 2016 program vacant . In: Saxon newspaper . January 29, 2016 ( online [accessed January 29, 2015]).
3. ↑ Over 200,000 visitors to Dresden museums in 2017 - free entry difficult to imagine . In: Dresdner Latest News . March 1, 2018 ( online [accessed March 2, 2018]).