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Culture & history

Art, industry and city history, with suggestions for planning a visit.

Culture & history

Visiting the art collections at Theaterplatz

Plan a visit at Theaterplatz around the art you want to spend time with, rather than a checklist of rooms.

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Making time for Museum Gunzenhauser

Twentieth-century art from a collector’s perspective, shown in a former bank building at Falkeplatz.

Façade of smac in the former Schocken department store

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Planning a first visit to smac

Saxon archaeology inside the former Schocken department store, with time for objects as well as the building.

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Making room for the industrial museum

Connect machines with materials, finished products and the people whose work kept production moving.

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City history at Schloßbergmuseum

City history, historic rooms and individual objects provide several ways into a visit to Schloßbergmuseum.

Rock display outside the Museum für Naturkunde in TIETZ

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The natural history museum inside TIETZ

Choose a theme to guide your visit through fossils, living animals and changing exhibitions at the natural history museum.

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Understanding the Petrified Forest

The fossil trunks in TIETZ open a view onto a landscape far older than the city above it.

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Villa Esche: architecture and planning a visit

The relationship between architecture, rooms and objects is the reason to give Villa Esche an unhurried visit.

Commemorative plaque at Marianne Brandt House

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Following the story of Marianne Brandt

Marianne Brandt House adds a focus on design history to a walk through Kaßberg.

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Visiting the tram museum

At the tram museum, the historic depot is part of the subject. Plan a museum visit and any special ride separately.

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Giving the vehicle museum its own place in a visit

The Stern-Garagen building is part of the vehicle museum’s story. You do not need to know engine types to enjoy the collection.

Locomotives in the roundhouse at Schauplatz Eisenbahn

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Visiting Schauplatz Eisenbahn in Hilbersdorf

Hilbersdorf combines railway vehicles with the infrastructure that kept them working. Distances and operating processes matter as much as the engines.

Factory building now used by Spinnbau, photographed in 2018

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An evening at the Spinnbau theatre

Spinnbau puts drama and puppet theatre inside a former industrial complex. The specific stage on your ticket matters as much as the show title.

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Planning an opera visit in Chemnitz

Choose the production, language support and seat before organising the rest of your opera evening. Theaterplatz provides the setting; the event listing provides the details.

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Planning an evening at the Stadthalle

At Stadthalle Chemnitz, the individual event determines the seating and arrival arrangements. Check the hall, admission time and ticket details before planning the evening.

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Discovering TIETZ as a cultural building

TIETZ brings several cultural institutions together in a former department store. Choose a main destination, then allow time to notice how the building works.

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Exploring the Schönherrfabrik and its setting

Schönherrfabrik is an industrial complex in continuing use. Choose a public venue or event, then explore what the buildings reveal about their changing purpose.