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.

Kulturhistorisches Museum 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.

Magdeburg Cultural History Museum

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Thanks to its outstanding medieval exhibitions, the Museum has become famous far beyond the German Land of Saxony-Anhalt.

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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.

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The Art Museum in the Monastery of Our Lady is the most important venue for contemporary art and sculpture in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and is one of the region's most popular tourist attractions.

Interner Link: Historic ship mill at Petriförder

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Have you ever asked yourself how our ancestors ground their corn before the invention of electrical machines and combustion engines? The ship mill at the Petriförder landing has an answer to our question.

Interner Link: Lukasklause mit Otto-von-Guericke-Museum

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Within the old walls of the Lukasklause building, which boasts an octagonal tower that was first mentioned in the 14th century, you can view historic replicas, pictures and documents, as well as live experiments, that will give you an insight into the life and work of Otto von Guericke (1602-1686). The Guericke Centre was opened in 2010.

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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.

Interner Link: The Puppetry Collection in the villa p.

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In 2012, Magdeburg Puppet Theatre opened the largest public collection of puppets and puppetry accessories in central Germany in its neighbouring renovated listed District House dating back to the year 1884: the «villa p.®».

Interner Link: Gedenkstätte Moritzplatz Magdeburg

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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 for awhile into the hands of the Soviet military administration.

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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.

Interner Link: Magdeburger Friseurmuseum

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In May 2009, the members of the hairdressing association Haar-Verband e.V. officially opened the first hairdressing museum in the German city of Magdeburg. Come and visit the museum and delve into the historical world of hairstyling.

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The «Abtshof Bunte Circuswelt» in the Buckau district of the German city of Magdeburg was opened in August 2009. The old entrepreneur's mansion owned by the machine factory run by Rudolf Wolf and located on the site of the company Abtshof GmbH is now home to Magdeburg's first circus museum.

Museums

Magdeburg Cultural History Museum

Museum of Nature

Art Museum in the Monastery of Our Lady

Historic ship mill at Petriförder

Otto-von-Guericke-Museum Lukasklause

Museum of Technology

The Puppetry Collection in the villa p.

Magdeburg Moritzplatz Memorial

Steamboat Württemberg - a museum ship

Magdeburg Hairdressing Museum

Circus Museum

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