Experience a Colorful Night: Dresden Museum Night 2023

On Saturday, July 8, 2023, 43 museums invite you to the DRESDEN MUSEUM NIGHT. Museums throughout the city open their doors to a special program from 6 p.m. to midnight. From Tuesday, June 27th, the campaign motif of the Museum Night can be seen for 14 days on the 60 new digital city information systems in the city center – with a wink.
Advance tickets are again available for all museums and for a nocturnal journey from place to place: by bus and train, with the Museum on Wheels and a historic bus. In the participating museums, the directors present their favorite objects in person. Otherwise closed rooms are opened exclusively and experiments are presented. Those who wish can become active themselves by painting, spraying, printing and designing, observing and photographing or in workshops. An evening is offered around the big themes such as freedom, future and change, beauty and happiness: with music and film and plenty of opportunity to expand your senses – or to relax.
And all in color! The porcelain collection is all about white gold. Pillnitz is green and colorful in plant fever and the botanical garden also provides the color and smell as well as the sound. The Old Masters Picture Gallery promises a rush of color and music and is dedicated to pastel perfection with an exhibition on the painter Rosalba Carriera. The Japanese Palais is all about the blue planet, green herbs and a colorful swap of clothes. The technical collections lead into the black and white world of the 1920s and at the same time convey a new way of seeing on the screen with the “Ballet Mécanique”, a classic of surrealist film. This time there is a lot of color in the vicinity of the Technical University of Dresden (TU). In addition to the Munich Square memorial and the gallery of the Technical University in the Görgesbau, this time the permanent exhibition of the Custody is also inviting – including the color collection. Opposite, the book museum opens and, in addition to the famous Mayan codex, presents an exhibition with audio documents and moving images from everyday life in Saxony in black and white and color, from the 1920s to the 1990s. A historic bus takes guests from Pirnaischer Platz directly to the TU museums. If you are even more interested in historical vehicles, you can also drive with the rolling museum. It shuttles between the Transport Museum and the Transparent Factory, which is a guest at the DRESDEN MUSEUM NIGHT. Other guests include the Schönfeld Magic Castle and the Freital Municipal Collections at Burgk Castle. Almost all museums have exceptional offers for families and children: In the German Hygiene Museum you can make a NO Horn, take photos in the Technical Collections and build your own city out of cardboard and paper in the Transport Museum. In the Japanese Palace, a children’s radio play is produced with the young guests, and there are special tours for children in the Mitte power plant.

The complete program MUSEUM NIGHT DRESDEN is available from June 12 at museumsnacht.dresden.de.
The ticket sales starts on Monday: Buy your ticket in advance and use it to travel by bus and train and to travel from museum to museum. Admission tickets are available from all Deutsche Bahn AG and DVB AG ticket machines in the VVO area and from all ticket offices, DVB AG service points, the regional transport companies in the VVO, the VVO mobility center and online www.dresdeninformation.de/museumsnacht
Die box office on July 8, 2022 is open until 9 p.m. and is located in the Dresden Information in the QF-Passage, Neumarkt 2. Tickets can also be bought late into the night at all ticket machines. Please note: You cannot buy tickets for the MUSEUM NIGHT DRESDEN from the participating museums on the day of the event or in advance.
Entrance fees: Single ticket 13 euros, concessions: 9 euros, family ticket 28 euros (valid for two adults and up to four children under the age of 14), children under the age of 6 free
The following are entitled to a reduction on presentation of proof: Pupils, students, trainees, those doing federal voluntary service, those doing the voluntary social year, pensioners and recipients of unemployment benefits, severely disabled people with a degree of disability of 80 percent or more, their accompanying persons, holders of the Dresden Pass and of the culture pass of the Euroregion Elbe/Labe. Annual tickets for municipal and state museums are not valid!

The card entitles to:
– Admission to all participating houses from 6 p.m. to midnight
– Journeys with all local means of transport – except for special means of transport – in the VVO network area from 2 p.m. to 4 a.m. the following day
If you purchase the Museumsnacht ticket online, it is only valid as a ticket with an identity document.

The MUSEUM NIGHT DRESDEN is supported by SHD-Systemhaus Dresden in cooperation with the Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe.

Additional Information:
museumsnacht.dresden.de