Exhibition dates
Guided tour: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
Guided tour of the special exhibition
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- without registration
Note: Due to high demand, two tours are offered at the same time, which alternate between the two exhibition rooms. Both groups will receive an overview of the entire exhibition. Meeting point at the ticket office
International Museum Day at the City Museum
Free admission to the exhibitions
On International Museum Day, we invite you to visit our exhibitions free of charge.
- Platte OST / WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
- 800 years of Dresden. History(s) from the beginnings to the present day
- Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann. The chess legend from Dresden (presentation on the gallery gallery)
- The Eternal Scripture - A Torah for Dresden (public cultural project of the Jewish Community of Dresden)
PLATTE" EAST / WEST
Guided tours on International Museum Day
- Duration: 1 hour
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
LIVING IN LAYERS
Workshop performance of the B:Club PLATTE
The event is already fully booked.
The "PLATTE" often doesn't have a good reputation: grey, monotonous, lots of people in a small space and the associated problems. But in the GDR, a flat in a prefabricated building was highly coveted - and isn't the "Platte" cult again today?
In cooperation with the Stadtmuseum, the participants of the B:Club of the Staatsschauspiel Dresden developed their own view of prefabricated buildings and the special exhibition. They collected scenes, archived personal experiences, explored associations and dreamed into the future.
What did we associate with the "Platte" in the past and what do we associate with it today? How would a prefabricated flat have to be designed for us to want to live here? What will happen to industrial housing in the future? And how will future generations view housing in prefabricated panel construction?
The workshop performance WOHNEN IN SCHICHTEN invites the audience on a theatrical tour of the exhibition with perspectives on and from the "Platte".
- Price: 6 € per person
- Tickets: www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de
Photo: Participants of the B:Club in the installation "Plattenbau Vertigo" by Annett Zinsmeister (2025/26(
Prohlis – Along the Geberbach through the ages
Neighbourhood tour
The Geberbach stream has been flowing through the south-east of Dresden for thousands of years. In order for today's Prohlis district to be built in the 1970s of the GDR, the village structure that had grown over centuries with its surrounding meadows and fields had to make way. It was important to the architects to leave the Geberbach stream in its natural course. We follow the course of the stream and cross not only the new development area, but also the history of this area, which also goes back thousands of years.
With Peter Neukirch (Palitzsch Museum)
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the Palitzsch Museum Dresden, Gamigstraße 24, 01239 Dresden
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
LIVING IN LAYERS
Workshop performance of the B:Club PLATTE
The event is already fully booked.
The "PLATTE" often doesn't have a good reputation: grey, monotonous, lots of people in a small space and the associated problems. But in the GDR, a flat in a prefabricated building was highly coveted - and isn't the "Platte" cult again today?
In cooperation with the Stadtmuseum, the participants of the B:Club of the Staatsschauspiel Dresden developed their own view of prefabricated buildings and the special exhibition. They collected scenes, archived personal experiences, explored associations and dreamed into the future.
What did we associate with the "Platte" in the past and what do we associate with it today? How would a prefabricated flat have to be designed for us to want to live here? What will happen to industrial housing in the future? And how will future generations view housing in prefabricated panel construction?
The workshop performance WOHNEN IN SCHICHTEN invites the audience on a theatrical tour of the exhibition with perspectives on and from the "Platte".
- Price: 6 € per person
- Tickets: www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de
Photo: Participants of the B:Club in the installation "Plattenbau Vertigo" by Annett Zinsmeister (2025/26)
LIVING IN LAYERS
Workshop performance of the B:Club PLATTE
The event is already fully booked.
The "PLATTE" often doesn't have a good reputation: grey, monotonous, lots of people in a small space and the associated problems. But in the GDR, a flat in a prefabricated building was highly coveted - and isn't the "Platte" cult again today?
In cooperation with the Stadtmuseum, the participants of the B:Club of the Staatsschauspiel Dresden developed their own view of prefabricated buildings and the special exhibition. They collected scenes, archived personal experiences, explored associations and dreamed into the future.
What did we associate with the "Platte" in the past and what do we associate with it today? How would a prefabricated flat have to be designed for us to want to live here? What will happen to industrial housing in the future? And how will future generations view housing in prefabricated panel construction?
The workshop performance WOHNEN IN SCHICHTEN invites the audience on a theatrical tour of the exhibition with perspectives on and from the "Platte".
- Price: 6 € per person
- Tickets: www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de
Photo: Participants of the B:Club in the installation "Plattenbau Vertigo" by Annett Zinsmeister (2025/26)
Director's 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
- 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: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- without registration
Your "Platte" made of plaster!
Holiday workshop
Become a master builder and design your own piece of the city! Create your own mini concrete slab from liquid plaster. Before the plaster sets, add some colour! Decorate your "Platte" with colourful stones, glittering sand and mosaic tiles. Whether it's a colourful apartment block or a chic pattern - you decide what the "Platte" of the future will look like.
- Age: 6 to 13 years
- Duration: 2 h
- Cost: €5 per child
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
My pattern for the "Platte
Holiday workshop
"Platte" is grey and boring! Is that really true? In our exhibition, we will show you how colourful and diverse the "Platte" was and is. Afterwards, you can decorate your own "Platte" with your own patterns in our workshop.
- Age: 8 to 11 years
- Duration: 2 h
- Cost: €5 per child
- 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: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- without registration
Your "Platte" made of plaster!
Holiday workshop
Become a master builder and design your own piece of the city! Create your own mini concrete slab from liquid plaster. Before the plaster sets, add some colour! Decorate your "Platte" with colourful stones, glittering sand and mosaic tiles. Whether it's a colourful apartment block or a chic pattern - you decide what the "Platte" of the future will look like.
- Age: 6 to 13 years
- Duration: 2 h
- Cost: €5 per child
- 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: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- without registration
LEGO® workshop: "Platte" (re)construction – We transform skyscrapers!
Holiday workshop with the Centre for Building Culture Saxony
Im Stadtmuseum entdecken wir Plattenbauten – das sind Häuser, die aus vielen gleichen Betonplatten bestehen und in vielen Städten gebaut wurden. Danach verwandelst du mit LEGO®-Steinen und viel Fantasie einen solchen Plattenbau und die Umgebung in neue, gute Lebenswelten! Alle Ideen werden abschließend in einer kleinen Ausstellung gezeigt.
- Alter: 8 bis 11 Jahre
- Dauer: 3 h
- Kosten: 6 € pro Kind
- Anmeldung online oder beim Besucherservice der Museen der Stadt Dresden unter +49 351 488 7272 (Mo – Fr)
LEGO® workshop: "Platte" (re)construction – We transform skyscrapers!
Holiday workshop with the Centre for Building Culture Saxony
In the city museum we discover prefabricated buildings - these are houses that consist of many identical concrete slabs and were built in many cities. Then, using LEGO® bricks and a lot of imagination, you will transform such a prefabricated building and its surroundings into new, good living environments! All the ideas will then be shown in a small exhibition.
- Age: 8 to 11 years
- Duration: 3 h
- Cost: €6 per child
- 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: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- without registration
Guided tour: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
Guided tour of the special exhibition
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- without registration
Plate? Yes, please! Conversion and refurbishment of prefabricated buildings in Gorbitz
Neighbourhood tour
The Gorbitz prefabricated housing estate, which was built in the 1980s, has changed bit by bit over the past 25 years. Where once one block resembled another, today there is diversity, not only in the form of colourful facades, but also inside the buildings. Lifts, bathrooms with showers and windows, spacious kitchens, new balconies, tenants' gardens - all this can now be found in the "Platte" thanks to modernisations and conversions.
One outstanding and well-known conversion project is the Kräutersiedlung, which was realised between 2002 and 2004 by the Eisenbahner-Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Dresden eG. But a lot has also happened in Gorbitz since then, and construction is still ongoing in several places.
The guiding principle has always been to preserve the strengths of prefabricated housing (e.g. spacious, green inner courtyards and compact structures) while at the same time eliminating disadvantages (e.g. small kitchens and bathrooms, six-storey buildings without lifts).
The tour leads to selected converted residential buildings and is intended to illustrate the potential of prefabricated housing and its future viability using the example of Gorbitz.
With Konstanze Mally
- Duration: 2 hours
- Meeting point at the Merianplatz tram stop (out-of-town side)
- Participation free of charge
- 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: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- without registration
Exhibition offers
A house from the factory!
Interactive tour for primary schools
What are prefabricated buildings? And what is actually special about them? In the City Museum's special exhibition, you can find out how this type of construction came about and why there are so many prefabricated buildings.
Primary school KU [ Kl. 1-4. LB 1], [ Kl. 1-2. WB 2], [Kl. 4 LB 2, WB 2], SU [Kl. 2-4 LB 5]
€5 per person, accompanying persons receive free admission
Practical modules can be booked to build on the tour.
about the exhibition
Living space "Platte" – Building and living in East and West
Educational programme for secondary schools and grammar schools
The event focuses on the development of prefabricated housing in East and West Germany. What characterises prefabricated housing? What is in its favour? What are the arguments against it? What is it like to live in prefabricated housing? And what potential does this type of construction have in the future?
After a brief introduction to the exhibition, the pupils work independently in small groups on selected key topics and exhibits.
Secondary school [Year 7 KU LB 2] [Year 8 KU LB 2] [Year 9 KU LB 2] [Year 10 KU LB2] [Year 9 GE WB] [Year 10 GE WB]
Grammar school [Year 7 KU LB 2] [Year 8 KU LB 2] [Year 11/12 KU GK LB 2] [Year 11/12 KU GK WB 11/12 KU GK WB 2] [Kl. 11/12 KU LK LB 2] [Kl. 11/12 KU LK WB 2] [Kl. 10 GE LB 2] [Kl. 10 GE WB 2] [Kl. 10 GE WB 3] [Kl. 11/12 GE GK LB 3][Kl. 11 GE LK LB 1] [cl. 11 GE LK LB 2] [cl. 12 Geo GK LB 4] [cl. 12 Geo LK LB 6]
€5 per person, accompanying persons receive free admission
Practical modules can be booked to build on the tour.
to the exhibition
Practical module 1: More than concrete – slab production
Can only be booked in combination with the interactive tour or the event "Lebensraum Platte - Bauen und Wohnen in Ost und West "
How does a slab factory actually work? How are concrete slabs made? What materials are used? And how can the slabs be decorated? In the museum workshop, pupils try out various casting and finishing techniques with plaster in order to develop an understanding of the manufacturing processes and the materiality of the components.
Oberschule [Kl. 7 KU LB 2] [Kl. 8 KU LB 2]
Gymnasium [Kl. 7 KU LB 2] [Kl. 8 KU LB 2]
€1 per person, accompanying persons receive free admission
to the exhibition
Practical module 2: More than grey walls – panel design
Bookable only in combination with the interactive tour or the event "Lebensraum Platte - Bauen und Wohnen in Ost und West "
Not all prefabricated buildings are grey and monotonous. Components are often creatively designed: "Platte" slabs have textures and patterns, they are coloured or decorated with coloured ceramic tiles. Moulded concrete blocks characterise facades, walls and terraces with their geometric shapes. In the museum workshop, pupils experiment with different techniques and materials to creatively design "Platte".
Oberschule [Kl. 7 KU LB 2] [Kl. 8 KU LB 2]
Gymnasium [Kl. 7 KU LB 2] [Kl. 8 KU LB 2]
1 € per person, accompanying persons receive free admission
to the exhibition
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