Museums in Leipzig and the region

With centuries of tradition and institutions that continue to inspire today, Leipzig can proudly call itself a world-class City of Music. Famous composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Wagner or Clara and Robert Schumann have left a lasting mark on the city and turned it into a musical centre.

Discover the places where these world-famous musicians lived and worked, and follow the footsteps of other personalities in the Leipzig region, such as Martin Luther or Joachim Ringelnatz.

Art and creativity are highly valued in Leipzig and the region. Especially in the western districts, the creative scene gathers to design, to bring change, and to make the city more colourful and lively. But museums such as the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts or the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig enrich Leipzig with diverse and distinctive exhibitions.

If you want to experience impressive craftsmanship or immerse yourself in the versatile world of photography, the Leipzig region is exactly the right place.

No matter how fast digitalisation progresses, the disappearance of printed text is unimaginable in the near future. Luckily! Many people still prefer a real book that smells of paper and can be flipped through over any e-reader or tablet.

Literature fans and book lovers adore Leipzig, because as one of the two locations of the German National Library and with the annual Leipzig Book Fair, printed works are closely linked to the city.

Leipzig offers a wide range of museums that cannot be clearly assigned to a single category and are still well worth a visit.

Did you know that the tradition of allotment gardens began in Leipzig? You can find out how the so‑called Schreber gardens became popular and why they have their name at the Allotment Garden Museum Leipzig.

Not small at all is the 32‑metre‑high panorama by the artist Yadegar Asisi at the Panometer Leipzig. In its current exhibition, the Panometer presents “DIE KATHEDRALE VON MONET – The Liberation of Painting”, an immersive, intensely colourful artwork that invites you on a picturesque journey to the French city of Rouen at the end of the 19th century.