Museums

Over the last few years, Magdeburg's museums have organised many unique exhibitions where a great deal of national as well as international interest has been sparked. New, comprehensive and very valuable collections were set up, impressive new exhibits were added to old collections and in the 1990s the new Museum of Technology was founded, yet another highlight of the Magdeburg museum scene.

There is much to offer for every age and interest such as the Cultural History Museum which displays many exhibits on the history of Magdeburg and its region and is dedicated to a collection of exhibits relating to the Land of Saxony-Anhalt. Another attraction is the Art Museum in the Monastery of Our Lady which is home to an impressive exhibition featuring 20th century sculptures. Always worth a visit is the Lukasklause which hosts the Otto von Guericke Museum dedicated to the life and work of the famous Lord Mayor of Magdeburg and scientist.

Art Museum in the Monastery Of Our Lady
The monastery building erected in Romanesque style from 1064 to the mid-12th century is one of the best preserved witnesses of Romanesque architecture in Germany. Today it hosts the Magdeburg Art Museum. St. Mary's Church was transformed into ... More
Museum of Nature
The origin of the oldest museum of the capital city dates back to the Magdeburg Society of Natural Science which was founded in 1869. For a start, collections were shown to the public in the premises of the Realgymnasium (high school) in Brandenburger Strasse in 1875. The society's ... More
Otto-von-Guericke-Museum Lukasklause
The Welsche Turm, a tower which forms part of the Lukasklause building of today, was mentioned for the first time in 1279 in an official document, the so-called Schöppenchronik. For a long time the tower belonged to the medieval city wall. It was partially destroyed when General Pappenheim's army invaded ... More
Museum of Technology
Magdeburg's Museum of technology can be found in a factory hall once occupied by the heavy machinery combine "Ernst Thälmann" (today SKET). The hall was built in 1871 as a new production plant for the Hermann Gruson Factory. Today many machines, tools and gadgets are exhibited here and they ... More
Millennium Tower
It took only six months to build the Millennium Tower which became the major attraction of the Federal Garden Show in 1999. The mastermind behind the artistic design of this unique building, a tower made of wood and perfectly matched to the exhibition area, is the Swiss sculptor Johannes Peter ... More
Magdeburg Moritzplatz Memorial
Former detention facility of the Ministry for State Security--> From 1873 to 1876, the red brick building in the north of Magdeburg was erected as a royal-Prussian district court and city prison. After the end of the Second World War, the “Prison Magdeburg-Neustadt” fell ... More
Steamboat "Württemberg" - a museum ship
After its last cruise on the river Elbe in 1974, the "Württemberg" was moored at the Rothehorn-island and transformed into a museum. For more than 25 years, information on Elbe navigation has been presented to the public in the hull of the steamboat. In addition, the Magdeburger Elbe-Schiffer-Verein (Elbe shipper association) ... More
Historic Ship Mill
Have you ever asked yourself how our ancestors ground their corn before the invention of electrical machines and combustion engines? The new mill building at the Petriförder landing has an answer to our question. The perfect reconstruction of a historic water ship mill ... More