Museums in Saxony

This significant fortress from the Middle Ages equally fascinates visitors and archaeologists.

Art from Romanticism to the present

In 1552, the beautiful Renaissance residence became Katharina Luther's hospital and death house after she suffered a tragic accident while fleeing the plague in Wittenberg just outside Torgau from which she never recovered.

An entertaining stroll through the history of musical instrument making – even beyond the Vogtland.

The Käthe Kollwitz House (also known as the Rüdenhof) is where the famous artist Käthe Kollwitz spent the last months of her life. Today the house serves as a memorial and museum with an extensive exhibition on the life and work of Käthe Kollwitz.

The Dresden Zwinger is the most important building of the late baroque period and, with its crown gate, is considered the city's landmark.

The history of tin washing dates back to the 16th century. The tin washer IV represents a significant technological innovation of ore processing with far reaching importance for mining in central Europe and worldwide.

Inside the courtyard of the Arno Lippmann shaft main building the original hoisting engine, fabricated by VEB NOBAS Nordhausen, has been preserved.  Performing 450 KW of power it allowed hoisting material with 4 m/s.

A 9 kilowatt Balancier steam-engine from the Pfaff company at Chemnitz has been preserved in the machine house. It features a combined Balancier hoist and water pumping system.

The partially timber-framed hoisting house contains the entire hoisting structure with signaling from the last mining period.

The single-storey, timber-framed structure houses several blowing engines, amongst the Schwarzeberggebläse (blowing engine), designed by engineer CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH BRENDEL.

Today, the stamp mill consists of several ore dressing buildings of different ages set in a row. An Aufschlagwassergefluter (motive-water channel) runs on the slope side to provide the necessary water to operate the water wheel located at the stamp mill gable.

The massive, two storey administration and assembly building dates back to the year 1837.  Within the context of conversion into a museum it had been restored in compliance with monument protection.