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Museums in Dresden

The arts and cultural metropolis of Dresden offers its visitors a diversity of museums. There are museums and exhibitions about history, world art, technology, science, contemporary art and much more.

Museums in Dresden

The Dresden museums in alphabetical order.

Dresden Night of Museum

8 June 2024, with over 45 museums and exhibitions in Dresden.

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Book admission to the Zwinger, the Residenzschloss and the Albertinum online.

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

With over 450 years, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden are today the oldest and second largest museum association in Germany and are presenting masterpieces of world-class, e.g. the Historical Green Vault and the New Green Vault, known as the treasures of the Wettins and the Old Masters' Picture Gallery with Raphael's "Sistine Madonna”.

View of the Pastel Cabinet in the Old Masters Picture Gallery. Liotard's "Schokoladenmädchen" hangs in the center.

Visitors view the exhibition with objects in showcases in the "New Green Vault".

View of the Albertinum with paintings and sculptures and visitors looking at them.

Dresden's museums take up different themes

Since 2005, the Municipal Gallery and Art Collection has provided Dresden with an additional space for displaying visual arts, combining more than two centuries of art history in Dresden. The themes of Dresden's other museums range from city and military history to the Museum of Technology and Industry to the Book Museum of the Saxon State And University Library. The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum is also well-known.