Experience prehistoric times live - the dinosaurs are here!
The fascinating dinosaur exhibition in the shopping center offers life-size replicas of everything from T-Rex to herbivores and is an exciting experience for the whole family, ideal for marveling, having fun and shopping. A highlight for dinosaur fans.
Mountain show / Kopec Kreativity
In the Buntspeicher Zwönitz, an exhibition presents the best products of the creative scene from the Ore Mountains and Czech border regions: Arts and crafts, design, literature and more. It then travels on to Karlovy Vary and Ústí nad Labem.
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Buntspeicher Zwönitz08297 Zwönitz
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Exhibition: Go forth my heart and seek joy
Under the title "Go forth my heart and seek joy", the exhibition shows paintings by Sister Hanna Steinert from Aue. Her works invite you to discover the beauty of everyday life and the joy of living in expressive motifs.
Galerie am Alten Gaswerk09526 Olbernhau
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Dauerausstellung
Im Sortiment finden sich Werke lokaler und nationaler Künstler wie Karl-Heinz Richter, Klaus Süß, Ingo Andratschke, Otto, Udo Lindenberg und Originalzeichnungen von Star Wars – eine vielfältige Auswahl zum Anschauen und Kaufen.
Exhibition: General meeting
Photographer Maria Sturm has captured over 150 members of garage communities in large-format portraits. Her works, which show the unexpected diversity of garage landscapes, will be on display at the Garage Campus from May to November.
Garagen-Campus09116 Chemnitz
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Colors of flamenco
The Schmidt-Rottluff Gallery cordially invites you to the exhibition of paintings by Ingo Andratschke from Chemnitz.
Exhibition: Whoever wins, falls
The exhibition shows Alexander Kluge's filmic and visual works on the subject of war. The focus is on individual experiences and historical parallels. It is complemented by the "memento STALINGRAD" conference at Chemnitz University of Technology.
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst09111 Chemnitz
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Exhibition: LUKE CARTER - Naked Freedom
Luke Carter researched nudist culture on the Baltic Sea as a scholarship holder. Inspired by conversations and impressions, he designed the 52-card game "FKK - Freie Körper Karten" (Nudist - Free Body Cards), which artistically reflects on the body, the gaze and the public sphere.
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst09111 Chemnitz
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Traces-an exploration of Chemnitz
The exhibition shows multi-sensory works by Emeka Ogboh that make memory, migration and belonging tangible. Using sound, taste and installation, Ogboh explores how sensory perceptions shape cultural narratives.
e.artis Galerie & Kunstauktionen09111 Chemnitz
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08.07.25 10:00 - 17:00 clock
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Guest exhibitions
The guest exhibition on the lower wall shows "Paintings in oil and acrylic" - powerful works full of color, depth and expression. The paintings on display invite you to linger, discover and reflect, enriching the room with artistic diversity.
Galerie der anderen Art08280 Aue-Bad Schlema
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08.07.25 11:00 - 18:00 clock
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Tibor Pogonyi / Yiun Cheon
Tibor Pogonyi and Yiun Cheon are showing impressive new paintings. In the cabinet, Gerhard Klampäckel complements the exhibition with further fascinating works - a multifaceted interplay of artistic forms of expression.
Galerie Weise09111 Chemnitz
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08.07.25 12:00 - 18:00 clock
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Historische Ausstellung
1997 wurde der Grundstock für die Sammlung gelegt. Die Idee für ein „Ziegelei- & Dorfmuseum“ entstand. Bürger gaben historische Gegenstände ab, die Ausstellung wuchs. Heute betreibt ein Förderverein das Museum mit Ringofen, landwirtschaftlichen Geräten u.v.m.
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Changer
Two former outdoor pool changing rooms invite you to swap art. Anyone who brings along a work of art can swap it for one on display and thus become part of a constant exchange - open to everyone, from hobbyists to professionals.
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Innenstadt Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Lost things are revived here
Miniature buildings on a scale of 1:10 have been built in Weißbach since 2004. Rich in detail and partly equipped with special mechanisms, the layout grows year by year to include a historically interesting, typical Erzgebirge building that no longer exists.
Mini-Weissbach09439 Amtsberg
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The Schumanns and Chemnitz
Robert Schumann and his family had close ties to Chemnitz: his father August wrote extensively about the city, Clara gave concerts there and Robert worked with Chemnitz musicians. An exhibition shows these diverse connections.
Robert-Schumann-Haus Zwickau08056 Zwickau
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Medullosa stellata
Since October 2023, the museum has been presenting the fossil of the year: Medullosa stellata, a fossil seed plant with fern leaves. The exhibition reveals parts of the sensational find and presents a digital reconstruction model for the first time.
Leben im Museum - Das Insektarium
Das Insektarium präsentiert die faszinierende Welt der Gliederfüßer: Lebende Blattschneiderameisen, schillernde Schmetterlinge, getarnte Gespenstschrecken sowie Vogelspinnen und Skorpione – eine Hommage an die Vielfalt, Schönheit und Bedeutung der Insekten.
Museum für Naturkunde09111 Chemnitz
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Ein Wald edler Steine - Geschenk der Vulkane - Das Sterzeleanum
Das Museum für Naturkunde bietet eine faszinierende Reise in die Welt versteinerten Holzes, tropischer Perm-Oasen und mächtiger Vulkanausbrüche – Geschichte wird hier multimedial erlebbar, voller Entdeckungen, Forschergeist und beeindruckender Naturphänomene.
Museum für Naturkunde09111 Chemnitz
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Museum experience
Children and young people developed games, animated films and audio contributions and brought primeval dinosaurs, scorpions and giant dragonflies to life for the experience level of the new permanent exhibition. Discover and play at interactive stations.
Museum für Naturkunde09111 Chemnitz
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Overland to New York
The exhibition presents a 43,000 km, 29-month journey around the world by five artists. Visitors experience their adventures and 972 mishaps across three continents up close, including an immersive 390-degree projection show.
Schloss Augustusburg09573 Augustusburg
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Opening - Ulrich Reimkasten: Textile Pictures
Opening of the new exhibition in the Kultur.Palais with works by Ulrich Reimkasten.
Kultur.Palais.Lichtenstein09350 Lichtenstein/Sa.
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Guided tours in the Wendt & Kühn world in Grünhainichen
Various guided tours such as "Discover - Experience - Marvel", "History to Enjoy", "Give the Gift of Joy", a curator's tour or the flower children's walk offer unique insights into the history, craftsmanship and art of the Wendt & Kühn manufactory.
Kinder (bis einschließlich 6 Jahre) kostenfrei, Kinder (7 bis einschl. 14 Jahre) 2 Euro, Erwachsene und Jugendliche (ab 15 Jahre) 4 Euro, Familienticket 10 Euro (2 Erwachsene und bis zu 3 Kinder), Familienticket klein 8 Euro (1 Erwachsener und bis zu 3 Kinder), Kindergruppen 20 Euro (5 bis 10 Kinder)
Guided tours for children during the Saxon summer vacations
An exciting guided tour shows how the world-famous eleven-dot angels are created. Children can try their hand at interactive stations and help to find the eleven dots of the angel in a quiz.
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Children's tour with Robby Robot
During the guided tour through the permanent exhibition of the Industrial Museum, children aged 8 - 12 can experience machines in operation and try out various stations for themselves. Robby the robot is also there.
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Industriemuseum Chemnitz09112 Chemnitz
08.07.25 13:00 - 14:00 clock
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Museumseintritt, Kinder bis 18 Jahre frei
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Summer holiday program: Watercolor and Naturell - the early Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Children discover how Karl Schmidt-Rottluff painted as a young artist on a tour of his parents' house during the vacation program. Inspired by nature and their surroundings, they then create their own landscape paintings using watercolors and a lot of imagination.
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Haus09116 Chemnitz
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Kosten: 2,00 € pro Person, Begleitperson frei (max. 2 Personen pro Kind)
Die Teilnehmerzahl ist begrenzt. Voranmeldung erbeten unter Tel. +493763777580 oder E-Mail: schlossmuseum@glauchau.de
Ein Angebot für Kinder von 7 bis 12 Jahren. Bitte feste Schuhe tragen und eine Taschenlampe mitbringen.
Downwards. Flashlight tour
Young and old alike can explore the underground passages beneath Glauchau Castle with a flashlight and helmet. Questions about this mysterious underworld will be answered. Afterwards there is a treasure hunt.
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Museum und Kunstsammlung Schloss Hinterglauchau08371 Glauchau
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09.07.25 15:30 - 16:30 clock 17:00 - 18:00 clock
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Summer holiday program at the Schloßbergmuseum
Why was Chemnitz once called Karl-Marx-Stadt? In the vacation program, children and families discover the exhibition "The New City", learn about life back then and then design their own imaginative future cities full of ideas and visions.
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Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz09113 Chemnitz
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10.07.25 09:00 - 11:00 clock 11:15 - 13:15 clock
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Public guided tour of the castle
The most beautiful knight's castle in Saxony rises on a steep rock in Central Saxony: Kriebstein Castle. The Kriebstein Room and the castle chapel with its late Gothic murals and other exciting rooms are explored on a guided tour.
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Familienführung durch die Villa Esche
Familien können die faszinierende Welt der Villa Esche erleben & der Geschichte der Familie Esche lauschen. Nicht nur im Museum, sondern auch in spannenden Räumen & Ausstellungen, die nicht immer zugänglich sind, wie das frühere Herrenzimmer & das Dachgeschoss
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Villa Esche - Henry van de Velde Museum09120 Chemnitz
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Highlights of archaeology in Saxony
Insights into Saxony's cultural history: from hunters and gatherers to farming cultures and industrialization, objects tell fascinating stories. A guided tour makes you curious to find out more.
smac – Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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10.07.2517:00 clock
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Saving to survive?
Saving to survive? What grain and knowledge have to do with each other - The mining magazine as part of the "Historic Old Town Marienberg" of the Ore Mountains/Krušnohoří World Heritage Site.
Iskender Yediler: Untitled (ESDA)
Reminiscent of a factory building sprouting out of the ground, the surrealistic-looking construction not only gives pride of place to the industrial culture and history of the location, but also to the people and clichés.
Gegenüber vom Bahnhof09350 Lichtenstein/Sa.
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Johann Belz: Rattling fountain
The rattling fountain by Johann Belz in Chemnitz features abstract bronze flower and leaf shapes that direct the flow of water. Tilting bowls produce the characteristic rattling sound that gives the impressive fountain its name.
Klapperbrunnen nähe Busbahnhof09111 Chemnitz
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Wilhelm Mundt: Trashstone
The elegantly reflective aluminum surface of the sculpture encloses production residues. Sculptor Wilhelm Mundt makes viewers appear as if in a distorting mirror, bringing form and material to life, coupled with the knowledge of the transformation of waste.
Lomonossow-Platz Freiberg09599 Freiberg
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Kris Martin: Good Luck
The sculpture "Good Luck" by Kris Martin combines a cube on a sphere made of Rochlitz porphyry tuff. It alludes to Goethe's "Stone of Good Luck", but reverses the order and transforms the classicist ideal into a precarious wish.
Am Rathaus Wechselburg09306 Wechselburg
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Carl Emanuel Wolff: Wild boars
It is said that wild boars foraging for food once uncovered the first tin ore in Ehrenfriedersdorf. This left its mark on the town - and so the patinated gunmetal bronze by the Dresden sculptor also contains pewter and traces of work, worked in with bare hands.
Sauberg09427 Ehrenfriedersdorf
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Daniel Buren: 7 colors for a chimney
In 2013, Daniel Buren transformed the 302-metre-high furnace of the northern CHP plant in Chemnitz with colored rings and his iconic 8.7 cm wide stripes into a widely visible work of art that marks Chemnitz as a city of art.
Gelände des ehemaligen Heizkraftwerk Nord Chemnitz, eins energie in sachsen09114 Chemnitz
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Osmar Osten: Top With
Softly colored columns made of natural Saxon stone nestle together and form the support for a whole bundle of figures cast from silver-colored aluminum. A clash of contradictions that invites speculation.
Schillerpark/Schillerplatz09111 Chemnitz
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Purple Path: Inauguration of the "Seeds & Seats" sculpture
A new meeting place is being created in the Lobgedichte area with "Seeds & Seats": plants, GDR design chairs and Brecht quotes invite you to linger. The "Lobgedichte" sculptures have also been cleaned.
Lobgedichte-Areal Brückenstraße09111 Chemnitz
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Friedrich Kunath: Include me out
The humorous group of spruces with lowered eyelids and pointed noses, to which a tree does not belong, touches on social and societal primal fears. At the same time, the sculpture is reminiscent of the concept of forest sustainability (von Carlowitz, 1713).
Buntsockenpark09380 Thalheim/Erzgeb.
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Hans Peter Kuhn: Lights light
The work "Lights light" by Hans Peter Kuhn on the eins energie administration building in Chemnitz shows randomly illuminated LED rods that create a constantly changing "concrete poetry" as a minimalist, architecture-related light drawing.
Verwaltungsgebäude von eins energie in sachsen in Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Future is past
The impressive mural "FUTURE IS PAST" by Hendrik Beikirch will be presented at the A4 business park in Chemnitz. The large-scale artwork is reminiscent of GDR labor collectives and invites visitors to reflect on change, identity and the history of the region.
Gewerbepark A409114 Chemnitz
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Exhibition - The story of Moritz Lippmann, his furniture store and his family
The exhibition tells the story of Moritz Lippmann, his furniture store and his family. It is an example of how undemocratic and totalitarian regimes intervene in the lives of individuals and leave lasting traces.
Schaufenster gegenüber dem Stadtbad09111 Chemnitz
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Chemnitz Mikveh
At the Bahnhofstraße/Zschopauer Straße traffic circle, the AG Mikwe Chemnitz is presenting an exhibition with a mikveh model (1:10) and information boards that shed light on the archaeological find, the religious significance, the owners and the possible users.
Rondell (Ecke Bahnhofstraße / Zschopauer Straße)09126 Chemnitz
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Into the dawn - Interventions in the urban space of Chemnitz
The city awakens, one eye half open, hoping for the usual everyday life. Summer 2025 brings artists from Europe to Chemnitz to disrupt habits and open up new perspectives with surprising actions and installations.
Innenstadt Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Christiane Kleinhempel: It also works straight! - Lines and Spaces
Lines are the artistic focus of the lettering artist. Over and next to each other, legible, illegible, drawn, written, painted and printed, they give rise to writing and drawings and create new spaces and images.
Plants in the roadside habitat
The new exhibition is dedicated to roadside plants, presents their impressive diversity and shows how these robust and adaptable species, both native and immigrant, develop surprising beauty.
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Who am I?
On display are pictures by Dorothee Kuhbandner from Radebeul on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's poem "Who am I?" as part of the 40th anniversary of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer congregation.
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Ev.-Luth. Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Kirche Chemnitz09123 Chemnitz
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Intuitive and poetic
The exhibition "Intuitive and Poetry" in the Central Library presents the fascinating works of Katharina Weisbach, who uses watercolors and chalk, framed by spontaneous graphic patterns, to create a connection between painting and poetry.
Stadtbibliothek im Tietz09111 Chemnitz
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Inventor culture in Chemnitz and the region
The exhibition shows how important innovations from the region were created and patented. Visitors can experience discoveries such as the first fully synthetic mild detergent or modern indoor navigation.
Universitätsbibliothek TU Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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When I go into my little garden... Exhibition of the Zipfelhaus
Delicate miniature flowers and detailed landscapes transport you into a creative world of wonder. The smallest flowers, mosses and natural materials are used to create unique scenes that will delight flower lovers and lovers of fine craftsmanship alike.
Dorfkirche Hormersdorf08297 Zwönitz
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