Wooden toy miniatures in the GDR era
A collection of handmade wooden miniatures from 1950 to 1990 forms the core of the exhibition. A warm Christmas atmosphere is created in the festively decorated museum, which brings past traditions to life with its homeworkers' parlor and pyramid.
Heimatmuseum Burgstädt09217 Burgstädt
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Cabinet exhibition: A passion for printmaking
Altenburg artist Sabine Müller presents a selection of her prints in a variety of techniques. Her works show fine lines, powerful contrasts and poetic imagery that invite you to discover and linger.
Modern times in the doll's house
The exhibition shows doll's houses and doll's furniture by Bodo Hennig, born in Borstendorf in 1928, once the largest manufacturer of its kind in West Germany. It is complemented by objects from the collection of Elke Kramer from Limbach-Oberfrohna.
Esche-Museum09212 Limbach-Oberfrohna
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The Ziemert model train collection
The valuable model train collection of the collector Wolfgang Ziemert (1939 - 2017) is on display.
Esche-Museum09212 Limbach-Oberfrohna
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Permanent exhibition Esche Museum
The Esche Museum combines industrial and local history in a lively way. A journey back in time to around 300 years of history tells of the origins of warp knitting & how stockings and gloves were made in the Limbach region and much more.
Esche-Museum09212 Limbach-Oberfrohna
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Exhibition: The life and work of Hans Carl von Carlowitz
A new permanent exhibition at Rabenstein Castle is dedicated to the life of Hans Carl von Carlowitz, the founder of sustainability. With documents, objects, film and a dialog table, his work and the history of Saxony's smallest castle can be experienced.
Burg Rabenstein09117 Chemnitz
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The new city - Chemnitz as Karl-Marx-Stadt
The exhibition at the Schloßberg Museum traces the intense and momentous era of "Karl-Marx-Stadt", which lasted only a few decades, with a particular focus on developments in urban planning and architecture.
Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz09113 Chemnitz
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A mountain parade
The cultural and historical exhibition sheds light on the close connection between Chemnitz and the mining districts of the Ore Mountains. With personal perspectives and stories, the historical interconnectedness of the city, the region and mining can be vividly experienced.
Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz09113 Chemnitz
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Gothic sculpture in Saxony
The largest collection of medieval sculptures in Saxony is on display. A joint exhibition of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Kunstsammlung Chemnitz.
Collateral Sculptures
The Hartmannfabrik Chemnitz will present sculptures by Atelier van Lieshout, Tatjana Doll, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Heike Mutter/Ulrich Genth, Lydia Thomas and others in 2025 and will be a central location for art and dialog.
Außenanlage Hartmannfabrik09111 Chemnitz
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Public guided tour: Carlfriedrich Claus ENG
A guided tour in English provides insights into the Carlfriedrich Claus exhibition, which brings together reconstructed sound works, early texts, drawings and documents and makes the artist's significance for visual and phonetic poetry tangible.
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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz09111 Chemnitz
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Public guided tour: Highlights in the art collections on Theaterplatz
During the public guided tours, you can get to know the current exhibitions in the art collections on Theaterplatz and highlights from the collection under professional guidance.
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz09111 Chemnitz
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The SCHOCKEN department store in Chemnitz
In this tour, you can get to know the so-called oriel exhibitions. They deal with the star architect of the time, Erich Mendelsohn, the SCHOCKEN department store group and the fascinating personality of Salman Schockens (with sign language).
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smac – Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Public guided tour Planet Africa
A tour of the Planet Africa special exhibition offers exciting insights into six thematic areas: Diversity, Incarnation, Knowledge & Technology, Signs & Images, Raw Materials and Current Archaeological Research on the African Continent.
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Offers in sign language
On certain dates, the spoken word is translated into German sign language by an interpreter
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smac – Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Treffpunkt: Kasse des Museum Gunzenhauser
Public guided tour: Interactive guided tour | Best Of II - Visitor's Choice
The "Best Of II - Visitor's Choice" exhibition at the Gunzenhauser Museum invites you to get involved: Visitors, the youth council and Chemnitz initiatives create spaces for exchange. Interactive stations open up creative approaches to art, technology and expression.
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Treffpunkt: Kasse des Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Haus, Limbacher Straße 382
Public guided tour: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff House
The newly opened museum presents the work of the Chemnitz-born artist and co-founder of the "Brücke". Two unique collections, prints and loans make it a new hotspot for expressionism.
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Haus09116 Chemnitz
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Public guided tour: Highlights of Saxon Gothic architecture
A public guided tour offers exciting insights into Saxon Gothic architecture. Sculptures, altar retables and late Gothic paintings unfold their effect in the former Benedictine monastery; the neighboring castle church completes the historical tour.
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Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz09113 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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Public guided tour: Guided tour in English | Best Of II - Visitor's Choice
The English-language guided tour through "Best Of II - Visitor's Choice" at Museum Gunzenhauser features a participatory format: visitors, youth council and initiatives design spaces for exchange, discussion and creative approaches to art and technology.
Via Lewandowsky: Wetterleuchten (Illuminating)
Via Lewandowsky's light and sound installation in the Taurastein Tower in Burgstädt transforms the historic observation tower into a flickering, colorful signal at night and interweaves cinematic, sonic and regional history into an expansive experience.
Taurastein09217 Burgstädt
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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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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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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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Andreas Schmid: Colorfield Chemnitz
The light installation Colourfield Chemnitz by Andreas Schmid transforms the main portal of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz into a colorful interplay of 38 LED bundles. Inspired by expressionism and music, it combines architecture, perception and movement.
Theaterplatz Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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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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Young-Jae Lee: Vases
Young-Jae Lee, pioneering ceramic artist, presents 49 colorful glazed vessels and bowls at the Stadtkirche St. Jakobi in Chemnitz. Her works create installations that redefine spaces and bring secular art into churches.
Stadtkirche St. Jakobi Chemnitz09111 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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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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All weather - Exhibition
In the Taurastein Tower in Burgstädt, Via Lewandowsky combines light, sound and space to create a unique installation. Film sequences, LED light and sounds from a former tin mine create an atmospheric experience from the base of the tower to the viewing platform.
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Taurastein09217 Burgstädt
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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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Photographs from the Chemnitz Clinic
Felix Bielmeier is developing a work for the Chemnitz Clinic that makes the invisible visible in medical care and questions aesthetic boundaries and the role of photographic images between information and practice.
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Klinikum Chemnitz09116 Chemnitz
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Exhibition: Places of the soul
Sonja Kalmanfi's art combines dream and reality. Inspired by Cilento, landscapes merge with inner images to create a poetic search for nature, identity and orientation - a view between what is and what seems possible.
Good God
Via Lewandowsky's work of light art adorns the tower of Chemnitz Castle Church. The striking neon installation shines far into the city and artfully addresses the tension between faith, doubt and social issues.
Schlosskirche Chemnitz09113 Chemnitz
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Sculpture inauguration: Yesterday is today becomes tomorrow
The new sculpture "Yesterday is today becomes tomorrow" will be unveiled as part of the "Ortskundig" project by the Chemnitz Artists' Association. The work will be unveiled on the corner of Hartmannstraße and Fabrikstraße, accompanied by words from Matthias Zwarg and music from STRELA.
Architects Mildner/Heine
The exhibition by architects Mildner and Heine showcases impressive designs and concepts that push the boundaries of architecture and convey a new understanding of space, light and sustainability while inspiring visitors.
Universitätsbibliothek TU Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Women make pressure - artificial flowers
The project "Frauen machen Druck - Kunstblüten" uses creative forms of expression to draw attention to the 18 percent pay gap that affects women compared to men and raises public awareness of the injustice of Equal Pay Day.
Universitätsbibliothek TU Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Holy names for Chemnitz
An artistic exploration of the names of saints and their significance for Chemnitz. The exhibition invites visitors to discover, reflect and discuss in a stylish atmosphere.
Regional showcase
All 38 cities of the Capital of Culture Region 2025 are on display in the TIETZ courtyard, with information, dates and QR codes on steles. In addition: central projects such as Purple Path & Makers as well as a stage for creative contributions from the region.
Kulturzentrum DasTietz09111 Chemnitz
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