History museums in Dresden

The Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe) is a museum in Dresden that holds the largest collection of treasures in Europe and contains many exhibits from the Baroque to Classicism. The Green Vault is named after the formerly malachite green painted column bases and capitals of the main rooms. The museum open

The German Hygiene Museum (Deutsches Hygiene-Museum) is a medical museum in Dresden. It sees itself as a public forum for science, culture and society. On permanent display are the permanent exhibition "Abenteuer Mensch" and the "Kinder-Museum Unsere fünf Sinne". The permanent exhibition puts the hu

The Bundeswehr Military History Museum (Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr Dresden, MHMBw) is the military museum of the Bundeswehr (the German Armed Forces). The museum is housed in a former military arsenal and is one of the major military history museums in Germany. The Military History Mu

The Panometer Dresden is a former gasometer in which one of two panoramic paintings of Austrian-born artist Yadegar Asisi is displayed, alongside an exhibition. The panoramas Baroque Dresden and Dresden 1945 have been shown alternately. The former shows Dresden as it might have appeared in 1756, the

Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon) is a museum in Dresden that belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. It is a museum of historic clocks and scientific instruments. The museum holds and exhibits a collection that includes globes, ast

The Royal Porcelain Collection (the Dresden Porcelain Collection (Porzellansammlung) is a museum in Dresden that is housed in the Zwinger Palace. The collection includes around 20,000 porcelain artefacts, important being the traditional Chinese and Japanese porcelain acquired by Augustus the Strong

The Dresden City Museum (Stadtmuseum Dresden) is the central city and local history museum of the Saxon capital Dresden in Germany. The museum is housed in the Landhaus and is dedicated to the more than 800-year history of the city. The permanent exhibition of the Dresden City Museum addresses vario

Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst mit Puppentheatersammlung is a museum in Dresden that contains a puppet theater collection as well as a Museum of Saxon Folk Art. The puppet theater collection in Dresden is a collection of theater puppets from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, comprising more than

The Gedenkstatte Bautzner Strasse (Memorial site Bautzner Straße) in Dresden is a memorial site for the victims of the GDR Ministry for State Security (MfS) in the Saxon capital Dresden. It is the only originally preserved remand prison of the "Stasi" in the 'Freistaat' that is open to the public. T

The Book Museum (Buchmuseum) of the Saxon State Library is a traditional literature museum in Dresden. The museum emerged from the Zimelienzimmer of the Royal Saxon Library. The exhibition of the Book Museum is located in the SLUB building and is divided into a permanent exhibition in the so-called

The Erich Kästner Museum is a museum in Dresden that is dedicated to the German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist Erich Kästner. Kästner was known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives. The museum focuses on Kästner's early

The Carl-Maria-von-Weber Museum is a music museum in Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. The museum is dedicated to the life and work of German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic Carl Maria von Weber and is located in her former summer residence. A permanent exhibitio

The Palitzsch Museum is a museum in Dresden that is dedicated to the 7000-year settlement history of today's district of Prohlis and the Prohlis natural scientist Johann George Palitzsch, who in 1758 first saw the then eagerly awaited Halley's comet. The museum is housed in a former farm and its exh

The Schulmuseum Dresden (School Museum Dresden) is a school museum in Dresden in Germany. The extensive collections of the school museum document the school history of Dresden and consist of an extensive collection of textbooks, teaching aids, pictures and photographs and other objects related to sc

Kuegelgenhaus - Museum of Dresden Romanticism is an art, literature and music museum in Dresden that is housed in the former home of the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen. The museum is dedicated to artists from the Romantic era and their works. The museum's exhibition covers nine rooms that cover the ti

The Dresden Museum of Ethnology (Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden) is a museum in Dresden in Germany that holds and exhibits an ethnographic collection with more than 90,000 pieces from all over the world, including numerous precious, irreplaceable testimonies of long-lost cultures. The museum present

The Kraszewski Museum is a literary museum in Dresden that is dedicated to the Polish writer, painter, historian and composer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887). The exhibitions in the museum feature both the German and the Polish language (as well as English). The permanent exhibition illustrates

The Schillerhäuschen (Schiller Pavillion) is a literary museum in Dresden that is dedicated to the important German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright Friedrich Schiller. The museum is housed in a small building in which Schiller is said to have lived. The Schillerhäuschen (Sch