Museum of the Month: UNIKATUM Children’s Museum
Contrary to the urban hustle and bustle, the museum is more like a bubbly oasis: outside, on Zschochersche Street, the traffic rushes by and the wind beats fiercely against buildings…
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PASSIONATE ABOUT CULTURE AND THE ARTS.
Enjoy a performance at the Semperoper opera house in Dresden, visit the Robert-Schumann-Haus in Zwickau, take in Chemnitz Art Collections or attend a concert by the St. Thomas choristers in Leipzig – the list is virtually endless. Saxony has a genuine commitment to culture, with the highest state funding for culture of all non-city states in Germany. The historical legacy includes world-famous figures such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Richard Wagner, with contemporary artists like Neo Rauch now continuing the tradition.
Contrary to the urban hustle and bustle, the museum is more like a bubbly oasis: outside, on Zschochersche Street, the traffic rushes by and the wind beats fiercely against buildings…
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Slowly yet surely, the woody-spicy smell of incense rises from a candle in slender columns of smoke in the air and provides a comfortably-warm feeling. Anyone, who’s not feeling the…
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Driving along the inconspicuous Saalfelder Straße in the West of Leipzig there is definitely one thing you wouldn’t expect between factories and industrial buildings: A centre of arts and culture….
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We take a trip to a town which was shaped by 800 years of mining: Freiberg, a town located halfway between Chemnitz and Dresden. The historical town centre, the Municipal…
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At the beginning of October, Leipzig hosted the Video Summit, the first international video conference about travelling. More than 150 participants from all over the world met up at the…
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Thomas Hetze’s eyes shine as he stands in “his factory”. Originally from Frankenberg, Thomas used to work here at the former publicly owned dye works in Limbach-Oberfrohna, Saxony, as a…
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A museum of the special kind can be explored in the Saxon town Radebeul not far away from Dresden. The “Museum of Lies” invites little and mature guests to discover…
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