
Build Dresden a new bridge!
Holiday workshop
This workshop is all about bridges. What bridges are there in Dresden? How were they constructed? And why did the Carola Bridge actually collapse? Together we will get to the bottom of the secrets of bridge building and then construct our own bridges!
- Age: 8 to 12 years
- Duration: 2 h
- Cost: €5 per person
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

Opening: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction

Guided tour: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
Guided tour of the special exhibition
- Duration: 1 hour
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

Torah in Dresden. Scripture, religion, culture
Guided tour of the presentation at the gallery
The guided tour of the exhibition provides in-depth information and unusual insights into the Torah - into its handed-down tradition and the manual and ritualised writing process.
- Curator's tour with Jahna Dahms

Training in the special exhibition
"Slab East / West. Living and building in large panel construction"
The new special exhibition at the Dresden City Museum is dedicated to the industrially manufactured prefabricated buildings that still characterise the appearance of many major German cities today.
Using selected examples, the exhibition traces the development of industrial housing construction from 1900 to the present day. It shows the similarities and differences in East and West and presents the potentials and limitations of the technology.
Questions about housing are at the centre of the show. A wide range of exhibits such as furniture, furnishings and photographs, as well as autobiographical audio and video contributions, provide answers to the questions: Who were prefabricated flats built for? How much living space was available and how was it used? Who lives in prefabricated housing today? How has living here changed?
We will give you an exclusive tour of the exhibition and then present our educational programme for all grades.
With Dr Claudia Quiring (curator of the exhibition), Franziska Schmidt and Dr Robert Mund (education and outreach)
The training course is published under the event number EXT05959 in the online training catalogue on the Saxony School Portal.
- School types: Primary school, secondary school, grammar school, vocational schools
- Subject reference: history, German, geography, social studies, art
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

Guided tour: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
Guided tour of the special exhibition
- Duration: 1 hour
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

Tour with the curatorial team: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
Guided tour of the special exhibition
With Dr Claudia Quiring, curator and Jonas Malzahn, co-curator
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

Torah in Dresden. Scripture, religion, culture
Guided tour of the presentation at the gallery
The guided tour of the exhibition provides in-depth information and unusual insights into the Torah - into its handed-down tradition and the manual and ritualised writing process.
- Curator's tour with Jahna Dahms

Guided tour: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
Guided tour of the special exhibition
- Duration: 1 hour
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

Building, living, storytelling – childhood in prefabricated housing
Family day with Nadja Budde
11:00 to 17:00
The City Museum opens its doors for a colourful and eventful family day on the subject of prefabricated housing.
Discover our exhibition with its numerous play and creative stations, listen to exciting stories about her childhood in the Plattenbau in a reading with children's book author Nadia Budde and finally create your own mini-comic under her guidance(with registration)!
In our museum café you can fortify yourselves with cake and hot chocolate and prepare for the next building adventures.

Guided tour: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
Guided tour of the special exhibition
- Duration: 1 hour
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

The forgotten master builder – Krubsacius and the Dresden country house
Coffee klatch in the city museum
Friedrich August Krubsacius (1718-1789) was a court architect, the first professor of architecture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and later also a senior master builder. Respected and well-known at the time, his life and work have almost been forgotten today. However, a significant example of his architecture still exists in Dresden: the former "Land- und Steuerhaus" - now home to the City Museum and the Dresden Municipal Gallery. Let us tell you about the life and work of the master builder, his architectural works and the chequered fate of the "Landhaus".
- With Lutz Reike, Museums of the City of Dresden
- Admission: €15 incl. a piece of cake and coffee (€5 with Dresden Pass)
- Please book in good time online or by calling the visitor service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (MO - FR).