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The City History Museum is a partner of the Leipzig Card / Leipzig Regio Card.
Your benefits are described under “Good to know/Further price information”.

The history of the city of Leipzig is anchored in the City History Museum and is presented using contemporary evidence at various locations.


The Leipzig City History Museum collects and preserves important evidence of Leipzig's city history and presents it in the Old Town Hall on the market square and the neighboring house in Böttchergäßchen. The Children's Museum is also located here.
The Old Town Hall is a landmark of the city of Leipzig and is one of the most beautiful Renaissance buildings in Germany. Visitors can discover the preserved remains of the old prison cells in the basement, the historic rooms on the main floor and the town hall tower.

The current special exhibition in Haus Böttchergässchen shows until October 6.10.2024, XNUMX »DO YOU FEEL MY JOY / DO YOU HEAR THE STORM?« Queer City Stories from Leipzig

In the Children's Museum "Museum is fun" discover children within the experience exhibition "Children make fair" the living history of the Leipzig Trade Fair. Numerous interactive stations invite children to a journey through time, where they from verkleiden can and with old currency You can exchange and sell goods. There are also creative offeringswhere stamping, tracing and embossing can take place.
The City History Museum also includes the Monument to the Battle of the Nations, the FORUM 1813 as a museum dedicated to the Battle of the Nations, the Schiller House in Leipzig-Gohlis, the Sports Museum, the Old Stock Exchange and the Museum of the Arabic Coffee Tree.

Good to know

Opening hours

Tuesday–Sunday, public holidays 10 a.m.–18 p.m.

December 24.12th and 31.12st closed

Price information

Price adult: 7,00 €
Price child: Free entry
Reduced price: 3,50 €
Evening menu: 3,50 €
Every 1st Wednesday of the month: 3,00 €
Every 3rd Thursday of the month Dialogue Thursday from 14pm to 18pm with conversation offer: 0,00 €
Admission free:
Accompanying persons for severely disabled people, if the ID card contains proof of the need for an accompanying person.
School groups and other groups including their accompanying persons, children and young people up to the age of 19
School groups and other groups, including their accompanying persons, whose participants are at least 19 years old and are in an apprenticeship (grammar school, vocational school, university)
Members of the Saxon Museum Association, members with ICOM ID (International Museum Association), members with DMB ID (German Museum Association), holders of a press card, members of the Hieronymus-Lotter Society for the Promotion of the City History Museum eV
Information on reduced prices: Admission reduced by 50 %:
Holder of Leipzig Pass, Volunteer Pass, Holder of the Volunteer Agency, Saxon Volunteer Card
Participants in integration courses, vocational training measures and qualification courses for reintegration into the labour market as well as those serving in the Federal Voluntary Service (BFD), the Youth Voluntary Services, Voluntary Social Year (FSJ, FSJ Culture, FSJ School, FSJ Politics etc.) and Voluntary Ecological Year (FÖJ)
Pupils, trainees and students aged 19 and over who are in an apprenticeship
Holders of the Leipzig Card, military service members and severely disabled persons with an ID card in accordance with Section 4 Paragraph 5 of the Severely Disabled Persons Act with a degree of disability of 50% or more upon presentation of the relevant ID card

fitness

  • Bad weather offer

  • for any weather

  • for groups

  • for school classes

  • for individual guests

  • suitable for seniors

foreign languages

German, English

Other equipment/furnishings

  • toilet facility

Accessibility

Notes on accessibility / deviations from the pictograms:

  • Automatic entrance door 80 cm, extendable to 160 cm if required.
  • All areas of the facility are barrier-free.

  • Offers for blind and visually impaired guests.
Entrance to the facility / paths within the facility
  • door width min. 90 cm

  • Access without steps (max. 3 cm) or ramp

Elevator
  • door width min. 90 cm

  • Access without steps (max. 3 cm) or ramp

  • Lift floor area min. 110x140 cm

wheelchair-accessible toilet
  • door width min. 90 cm

  • Access without steps (max. 3 cm) or ramp

  • Movement area in front of the toilet bowl min. 150x150 cm

  • Space to the left or right of the toilet bowl min. 90 cm

  • Foldable grab handles on the toilet bowl

Additional help/offers
  • Help/Offers for blind and visually impaired people

Arrival & Parking

Public transport: The nearest stop is Leipzig, Markt (lines S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S5x, S6, 89). The destination is about 260 m away on foot from there. Other stops in the vicinity: Goerdelerring or Hauptbahnhof.

Car: You can use the surrounding parking garages around the city center. The closest parking option is the B+B parking garage (Am Hallischen Tor 2, 04109 Leipzig).

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