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News about Pillnitz Castle & Park

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

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The Park of Pillnitz, situated in the suburbs of Dresden and famous for the old summer residence of the Wettin dynasty and a botanical garden, is going to charge an entrance fee, starting on 2nd April 2012.

The day ticket, so called ‘Garden Ticket’, will cost 2.00 EUR p.p. and includes the entrance to the park as well as the entrance to the palm house (reduced entrance fee 1.00 EUR p.p., group entrance 1.50 EUR p.p., children under 16 years are free).

The ‘Museum ticket’ does not only include the entrance to the park but also to the museums (Arts and Crafts Museum, Pillnitz Palace). This one costs 8.00 EUR p.p. (reduced 4.00 EUR p.p.)

The best and most beautiful way to get to Pillnitz is a cruise on the Elbe River. The Saxon Steamboat Company starts its season on 5th April. There are several tours that include a stop at the Pillnitz pier: the Castle Cruise to Pillnitz, the new National Park Line (from Pillnitz to the Saxon Switzerland) and the Elbe Valley Line (Dresden to the Saxon Switzerland).

We would like to suggest you to combine a guided walking tour through the Old Town of Dresden with a visit to Pillnitz. Enjoy the wonderful Dresden Elbe valley on a historical steamboat cruise after our walking tour.

DresdenWalks is able to offer a special combo tour in cooperation with the Saxon Steamboat Company.

Our daily walking tours start at 11 a.m. at our green signboard on Schlossplatz square.
Claudia Innerhofer

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The Museum of Hygiene rages with passions

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Hygienemuseum-dresden in 25th February to 30th December 2012

The German Hygiene Museum in Dresden devotes his latest exhibition to the passions. The Australian curator Catherine Nichols and the opera director Mariame Clément from Paris staged this special show as a great drama in five acts, where the visitor moves from stage to stage.

The aim of the almost 400 exhibits is to make the dramatic effects of the strongest and most dangerous of all human emotions come alive: love, desire, joy and amazement on the positive side, hatred, anger, fear, shame, sadness, envy and disgust as the negative passions. They not only symbolize passions but should also trigger them.

The variety of exhibits range from medieval to modern art works to trivial items like a whoopee cushion and up to curiosities, such as the plaster model of a corpse. They are complemented by several video installations.

The special show desiress to bring back the great feelings in perspective, which are now too often pushed to the brink.

Until the end of December 2012, visitors of the Hygiene-Museum Dresden can let themselves carried away by the passions.

K. Michael

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UNDER ATTACK – London/Coventry/Dresden

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

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Local traffic and the Blitz
Since 11th November 2011 the Dresden Transport Museum shows a special exhibition telling the history of the Blitz from the perspective of local public transport in the three fatefully connected cities.
The role of local public transport during World War II and the years of difficult postwar reconstruction is represented here by means of various touching contemporary documents and testimonials of personal experience. Special focus is given to the effects of aerial attack on local public transport and thus on people’s everyday lives.
With emphasis on five topics, the exhibition shows similarities and differences among the cities of London, Coventry and Dresden, thus explaining how the transport companies and their staff could keep the system running during that time.
Today the physical effects of the area bombardments have largely vanished. However, the remembrance of the aerial attacks remain vivid in the public and form the identity of the affected cities.
The bilingual exhibition (German/English) was opened at the London Transport Museum in 2010 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Blitz (the start of the air raids on England) and the 65th anniversary of the Dresden bombing. The exhibition has attracted a high number of visitors until March 2011.
It can still be seen until 15th April 2012 and there are many interesting talks, discussions and guided tours during the supporting programme of the exhibition: http://www.verkehrsmuseum-dresden.de/index.php?page=139.

Katharina

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The new Military History Museum Dresden – Thinking about war and peace

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

The Jewish-American architect Daniel Libeskind (Jewish Museum in Berlin), who specializes in memorial architecture has turned,
following a contract with the Defense Department, the old arsenal building into a museum for German Army History.

An impressive new design and highly visible intervention is now since the opening 14^th October 2011 the laterally projecting concrete-steel wedge. It covers all floors and pits partially the historic substance. The impressive steel wedge that opens the prestigious military building from 1875 with new views illustrates in a strong and emotional way, what happened to this city and our country during the German division and
is thought provoking how catastrophe came from Nazi Germany. If one climbs the stairs to the museum, you are confronted with a visible fracture. The wedge clears the way to the historic city centre of Dresden. It rises above the roofs of the old building, from the outside as a visible sign of renewal and from the inside as an opening to the city.

Libeskind’s glassy V should be a symbol of the courage of a new start, which the Dresdner had after the Second World War. In the form of a V also the bomb attack was flown on 13^th February 1945 on Dresden. The first marking bomb destroyed the stadium in the Ostragehege, the tip of the wedge is pointing there with an angle of 40.1°.

The Military Historical Museum of the Bundeswehr offers different perspectives on German military history. The theme that permeates all exhibition areas and the planning concept is the question of the causes and nature of violence. Here is the man: discussed with all his fears, hopes, passions, memories, instincts, and his courage, his reason and aggression. War is only understandable if its portrayal takes human nature as a basis.

In the vast exhibition of 13,000 square meters not technology and war take the centre of the stage, but man as perpetrator and victim. Altogether, the museum displays about 10,500 exhibits.

It is open Thursday to Tuesday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Monday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed on Wednesdays. KM

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New and Old Masters Picture Gallery: Special Exhibitions

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

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There are two interesting special exhibitions at the moment in our city arranged by the Dresden State Art Collection.

The first one is named ‘New Objectivity’ and was opened at the beginning of this month in the Exhibition hall of the Lipsiusbau (Academy of Arts, Brühl’s Terrace). It is a selection of 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures by 80 German artists. Most of the works are from the holdings of the New Masters Picture Gallery or are loans from other renowned museums.

Dresden was an important center of the period ‘New Objectivity’ in the 1920’s. The works are characterized by social criticism, irony and precision.

This special exhibition is open until January 8th, 2012, from Tuesday to Sunday, 10 AM – 6 PM. The entrance fee is 6 EUR.

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Another highlight is the exhibition ‘Heavenly Splendor’ in the Old Masters Picture Gallery in the Zwinger with two Raffael paintings. The first one is the ‘Sixtina Madonna’ which was purchased by the son of the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong in the 18th and the second one is the ‘Foligno Madonna’ which is a loan from the Vatican Art Collection. The later one was given to Dresden by the Pope Benedict XVI. on the occasion of his visit to Germany at the end of September.

Both paintings were drawn by Raffael in the year 1512 in his atelier and were given to different churches later. Now they are reunited here in Dresden after 500 years!

The ‘Foligno Madonna’ will be returned to the Vatican in January but the ‘Sixtina Madonna’ will remain in the holdings of the Old Masters Picture Gallery and can be furthermore admired in the Zwinger.
Winkler

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5 year aniversary of the reopended Historic Green Vault

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

On the weekend of the 17th and 18th September 2011 the State Art Collections in Dresden celebrates with a varied program the 5-year anniversary of the reopening of the Historical Green Vault. On the occasion of the anniversary the Historical Green Vault, all museums and exhibitions in the Royal Palace are open also on Tuesdays the 13th, 20th and 27th September and the 4th October.
With 5 € entrance tickets for either the Palace or the Historic Green Vault, one can see on that day all events and current exhibitions until 10 p.m. You can expect a colourful program for children and adults: Jazz, creative workshops, lectures, raffle and free tours of the museums.
On Sunday, September 18, 2011, the Royal Palace invites you to a concert at 11 a.m. in the small courtyard ,to a reading, creative workshops and guided tours for children.
The Green Vault in the Royal Palace in Dresden is the oldest Treasury museum in Europe and finest collections of art treasures from the Renaissance and the Baroque. Founder of this unique museum was the famous Saxon Elector August the Strong. As one of the few European treasuries the Green Vault has succeeded in maintaining almost its authentic stock.
As a work of art, the objects are shown without disturbing glass, which is why the number of visitors is limited and entry is possible only through a double door system that will keep the premises free of dust. The tour includes the Antechamber and the Amber Room to the Ivory Room and the Jewellery Room with its almost completely mirrored walls. A total of 10 rooms are passed through. It also includes the famous work of art “Moor with Emerald Plate”. Among the numerous drinking vessels are also the mouth cup of Martin Luther and a drinking cup of Ivan the Terrible.(K. Michael)

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„Via Regia“ 800 years if movement and mobility

Friday, July 1st, 2011

3rd Saxon State Exhibition
Görlitz, situated about 100 km away from Dresden, is the host of the 3rd Saxon State Exhibition which takes place until the end of October. Place of venue is the Kaisertrutz, a round cannon bastion from the 15^th century.
The theme is ‚Via Regia‘ (Latin for King’s street) which had already existed 800 ago as an important trading route between the river Rhine and Silesia. In 2005, the Council of Europe designated the Via Regia as a European Cultural Route. The exhibition focuses on life on and around the street, the people and the trade between Frankfurt/ Main and Krakow.
Görlitz itself became one of the most important trading cities on the road. It is the most easterly city in Germany and its old town impresses with medieval market places as well as restored and richly ornated townhouses.
The exhibition is open daily from 10 AM-6 PM (Fridays until 9 PM). The entrance fee is 9/ 7€. See for more information: www.landesausstellung-viaregia.museum
(Anke)

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Micrograph – Beauty beyond Visibility

Monday, March 7th, 2011

The exhibition offers a first-time overview about the history of a form of photography, which always oscillated between scientific precision and artistic fantasy. To the exhibits belong shots by modern artists like contemporary photographic art, whose photo-artistic picture production was inspired by the world of forms of the microcosm. In addition also included will be pieces from the 19^th century, which developed in a pure scientific context.

5^th March 2011 to 29^th May 2011 in Technische Sammlungen der Stadt Dresden, Junghansstr. 1-3

(K. Michael)

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Two Wheels – Four Strokes in the Dresden Transport Museum

Monday, March 7th, 2011

AWO – the Cult Motorcycle of the German Democratic Republic

12^th February to 1^st May 2011

The AWO-Motorcycles from Suhl in Thuringia are cult till this day. Until today exists an active fanbase, which was the initial spark for this special exhibition in the Dresden Transport Museum. There will be featured the history of the Suhl venture and the whole type range: from the Touren-AWO 425 to the Sport-AWO 425/S to combinations, race, cross country and special mission bikes. The many sent in private AWO-stories heat up the show with live and recollect the joy and misery of the bikes in the 1950s and 1960s.

(K. Michael)

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Religious Energy – about man and god

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

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The special exhibition Religious Energy comes at a time when the public perception of religion and faith has undergone a great change. The role of faith in modern society and the relationship between religion and democracy are issues that confront individual believers, the various faith communities, and society as a whole. The exhibition examines the phenomenon of religion from three perspectives:
– How do religions appear in today’s society, and how do believers see the society around them?
– What holds religious communities together, and what are they like on the inside?
– How do the faithful experience their relationships to God, to gods, or to what they believe in, and what is it like to live without such relationships?
About 300 historic-cultural objects, art pieces and religious objects from international lenders illustrate the history and current issues, similarities and differences of religions. Opinions and point of views about current religious questions of believers and non-believers can be selected from numerous monitors in the exhibition. In addition different computer animations explain facts, terms and statistics around the theme religion.
The exhibition can be seen until the 5th June 2011 in Dresden.

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