Plate EAST / WEST

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

With Dr Claudia Quiring, curator and Jonas Malzahn, co-curator

• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

11:00 to 17:00

The City Museum opens its doors for a colourful and eventful family day on the subject of prefabricated housing.

Discover our exhibition with its numerous play and creative stations, listen to exciting stories about her childhood in the Plattenbau in a reading with children's book author Nadia Budde and finally create your own mini-comic under her guidance(with registration)!

In our museum café you can fortify yourselves with cake and hot chocolate and prepare for the next building adventures.

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

The moulded stone system of the artists K.-H. Adler and Friedrich Kracht shaped the open space design of the GDR. From 12 basic forms, diverse, geometric and pictorially ornamental designs emerged that still characterise our cityscape today.
In this workshop, we will immerse ourselves in the meaning and visibility of this varied formal language. We invite you to experiment and rethink with geometric shapes and bold colours - and to experience GDR art from a fresh perspective.
We will use paper cubes and 3D plaster moulds to test spatial variations and combine them into imaginative structures.

With Janina Kracht (Freie Akademie Kunst + Bau e.V.) and Franziska Schmidt (cultural mediator, Stadtmuseum Dresden)

• Duration: 3 hours
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Workshop free of charge plus museum admission
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

Johannstadt, which is close to the city centre, was so badly destroyed in the Second World War that no old buildings were preserved over large areas. The Johannstadt Süd residential complex was built between 1968 and 1973, predominantly in large panel construction. The tour leads to numerous works of art that were placed in the spacious green areas and still characterise the area today.

With Antje Kirsch (Freie Akademie Kunst + Bau e.V.)

• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Meeting point at the fountain "Der Flugwille des Menschen", Striesener Straße / corner of Güntzstraße
• Participation free of charge
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

Prager Strasse was built using a modern, consistent prefabricated construction method and was thus also orientated towards international modern architecture. Flats were integrated to enliven the new pedestrian zone, while hotels, shops, restaurants and a striking cinema characterised the ensemble. Artists developed their own techniques - adapted to the industrial construction method - such as ornamental textured bricks for façades and so-called "architectural walls" for the open space design. During the tour, participants will also gain insights into other works of art and designed open spaces along Prager Strasse.

With Antje Kirsch (Freie Akademie Kunst + Bau e.V.)

• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Meeting point at the Pusteblumenbrunnen fountain on Prager Straße
• Participation free of charge
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

Hoyerswerda - a centre of GDR architecture: all types of prefabricated buildings can be found there. Nowhere else in Saxony is there a comparable variety of large panelled buildings. From the mid-1950s to the completion of the large housing complexes in the 1980s, the new town was a single building site. It was designed on the drawing board as a socialist residential city for the workers of the Schwarze Pumpe power plant. However, when it closed in 1990 and the workforce moved away, the town began to shrink rapidly and entire housing complexes were "demolished" again. Since then, Hoyerswerda has undergone profound structural change, but is also full of ideas for the future thanks to a far-reaching urban development concept.

The bicycle excursion takes place in cooperation with the ZfBK - Centre for Building Culture Saxony and, in addition to the current urban development, focuses on the special features and construction phases of the residential complexes in Hoyerswerda's Neustadt district, which we will explore by bicycle.

• Start: 9.45 am, Hoyerswerda railway station (old town)
• End: approx. 6.30 pm, Hoyerswerda railway station (Old Town)
• Cost: €20 per person
• Please register at anmeldung@zfbk.de with your name and telephone number

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

The Geberbach stream has been flowing through the south-east of Dresden for thousands of years. In order for today's Prohlis district to be built in the 1970s of the GDR, the village structure that had grown over centuries with its surrounding meadows and fields had to make way. It was important to the architects to leave the Geberbach stream in its natural course. We follow the course of the stream and cross not only the new development area, but also the history of this area, which also goes back thousands of years.

With Peter Neukirch (Palitzsch Museum)

• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Meeting point at the Palitzsch Museum Dresden, Gamigstraße 24, 01239 Dresden
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

The special exhibition at the Dresden City Museum is dedicated to the industrially manufactured prefabricated buildings that still characterise the appearance of many major German cities today.

Using selected examples, the exhibition traces the development of industrial housing construction from 1900 to the present day. It shows the similarities and differences in East and West and presents the potentials and limitations of the technology.

Questions about housing are at the centre of the show. A wide range of exhibits such as furniture, furnishings and photographs, as well as autobiographical audio and video contributions, provide answers to the questions: Who were prefabricated flats built for? How much living space was available and how was it used? Who lives in prefabricated housing today? How has living here changed?

We will give you an exclusive tour of the exhibition and then present our educational programme for all grades.

With Dr Claudia Quiring (curator of the exhibition), Franziska Schmidt and Dr Robert Mund (education and outreach)

The training course is published under the event number EXT06089 in the online training catalogue on the Saxony School Portal.

• School types: Primary school, secondary school, grammar school, vocational schools
• Subject reference: history, German, geography, social studies, art
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

Around 22,000 residents live in Gorbitz and value their quiet neighbourhood as a good place to live. A neighbourhood with the most green spaces of any district in the city of Dresden. A district (a small town) with very good local public transport services and a complete 30kmh traffic ban, with around 30 medical specialists, 11 daycare centres, 8 schools, 4 after-school care centres, 7 children's and youth facilities, an adult education centre, a library, an indoor swimming pool, a club with its own cinema, 3 houses of faith, numerous sports facilities, a volunteer fire brigade, 2 shopping centres, 10 supermarkets and specialist stores.

With Jürgen Czytrich / neighbourhood guide

• Duration: 2 hours
• Meeting point at the line 2/7 "Gorbitz depot" stop
• Registration online or at the visitor service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

The Gorbitz prefabricated housing estate, which was built in the 1980s, has changed bit by bit over the past 25 years. Where once one block resembled another, today there is diversity, not only in the form of colourful facades, but also inside the buildings. Lifts, bathrooms with showers and windows, spacious kitchens, new balconies, tenants' gardens - all this can now be found in the "Platte" thanks to modernisation and conversions.

One outstanding and well-known conversion project is the Kräutersiedlung, which was realised between 2002 and 2004 by the Eisenbahner-Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Dresden eG. But a lot has also happened in Gorbitz since then, and construction is still ongoing in several places.

The guiding principle has always been to preserve the strengths of prefabricated housing (e.g. spacious, green inner courtyards and compact structures) while at the same time eliminating disadvantages (e.g. small kitchens and bathrooms, six-storey buildings without lifts).

The tour leads to selected converted residential buildings and is intended to illustrate the potential of prefabricated housing and its future viability using the example of Gorbitz.

With Konstanze Mally

• Duration: 2 hours
• Meeting point at the Merianplatz tram stop (out-of-town side)
• Participation free of charge
• Registration online or at the visitor service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

With Dr Claudia Quiring, curator and Jonas Malzahn, co-curator

• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)