7 Museums to Explore in Saxony-Anhalt

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Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia, and Lower Saxony. Almost all of Saxony-Anhalt lies within the North European Plain, and its landscapes exhibit impacts from successive eras of glaciation. One of the beautiful states in Germany which were blessed with natural beauty.

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Museums to Explore in Saxony-Anhalt

Bauhaus Dessau

The Bauhaus Museum Dessau is a museum dedicated to the Bauhaus design movement located in Dessau, Germany.IT has a collection of 49,000 is the second-largest collection of Bauhaus-related objects in the world. Its building was designed by the Spanish architecture firm Addenda Architects. Its lower atrium floor houses temporary exhibitions, while the upper floor is devoted to the permanent collection.

Burg und Festung Regenstein

Regenstein Castle in Blankenburg is one of the special sights in the Harz with impressively preserved rooms, worked in the rock, give an idea of how important and defensive Regenstein Castle once was. The castle is surrounded by remnants of a more recent fortress. The open-air museum makes various rooms accessible and tells the story of Regenstein through many different exhibits. At Easter, Whitsun, and in July, Regenstein Castle's past comes alive.

Jahrtausendturm

The millennium tower in the Elbauenpark is a unique structure that was built for the 1999 Federal Horticultural Show. It includes a technology exhibition showing the achievements of the past 6,000 years. The exhibition on the development of sciences, which is supported by many descriptive experiments with which the visitor can interact. One notable example is a powerful telescope through which visitors can observe the distant clock-face on the Magdeburger cathedral.

Kunstmuseum Magdeburg - Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen

Kunstmuseum Magdeburg - Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen is a monastery in Magdeburg's old town . The building ensemble is one of the most important Romanesque structures in Germany . Today the buildings are used as the municipal art museum, the monastery of Our Lady and the concert hall. The monastery is one of the most famous sights in the city. It is in close proximity to Magdeburg Cathedral and the city center.

Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale)

The Moritzburg Halle art museum is the art museum of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. It emerged from the municipal museum for arts and crafts of the city of Halle founded in 1885. In its more than 130-year history, it has developed into one of the most important museums for the visual and applied art of modernism in Germany.

Lutherhaus

The Lutherhaus is a writer's house museum in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. Originally constructed in 1504 as part of the University of Wittenberg, the building was the home of Martin Luther for most of his adult life and an important place in the history of the Protestant Reformation. Luther lived here when he wrote his 95 theses.

State Museum of Prehistory Halle (Saale)

"The State Museum of Prehistory in Halle is the archaeological museum of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Founded in Naumburg in 1819, it was moved to Halle in 1825, and within Halle to its present location in 1918. Its collection, comprising more than 15 million items, is among the most extensive and important in Germany. Among its most famous exhibits are the Nebra sky disk, which has been part of the permanent exhibition since 2008, the Eulau family graves, and the Hornhausen rider stele.

Map of Museums to explore in Saxony-Anhalt