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Specialty Museum Attractions In Leipzig

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Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany. With a population of 591,686 inhabitants as of 30 June 2018, it is Germany's tenth most populous city. Leipzig is located about 160 kilometres southwest of Berlin at the confluence of the White Elster, Pleiße and Parthe rivers at the southern end of the North German Plain. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trade routes. Leipzig was once one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing. Leipzi...
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Leipzig

  • 1. Museum in der Runden Ecke Leipzig
    This list of museums in Saxony shows the museums in the German federal state of Saxony by location in alphabetical order:
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  • 2. Bach Museum Leipzig
    The Bach-Archiv Leipzig or Bach-Archiv is an institution for the documentation and research of the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Bach-Archiv also researches the Bach family, especially their music. Based in Leipzig, the city where Bach lived from 1723 until his death, the Archiv is recognised by the German government as a cultural beacon of national importance. Since 2008 the Bach-Archiv has been part of the University of Leipzig.
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  • 3. Grassi Museum Leipzig
    The Grassi Museum is a building complex in Leipzig, Germany, home to three museums: the Ethnography Museum, Musical Instruments Museum, and Applied Arts Museum. It is sometimes known as the Museums in the Grassi, or as the New Grassi Museum .
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  • 4. Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig
    The Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig is a museum of contemporary German history. Since 1999 it presents Germany's divided and common history since the end of World War II, with focus on dictatorship and opposition in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the German Democratic Republic . It is located in the city center of Leipzig, Germany. The permanent exhibition gives insight into the history of opposition and civil disobedience in the repressive one-party state of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . Furthermore, it focuses on the history of everyday life in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR from the end of World War II in 1945 until the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 and German reunification. More than 3.2000 objects are displayed in the permanent exhibition where personal stories and ex...
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  • 5. Museum fur Musikinstrumente der Universitat Leipzig Leipzig
    The Museum of Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig is a museum in Leipzig, Germany. It is located on Johannisplatz, near the city centre. The museum belongs to the University of Leipzig and is also part of the Grassi Museum, whose other members are the Museum of Ethnography and the Museum of Applied Arts. It is one of the largest music instrument museums in Europe, alongside those of Brussels and of Paris. Its collection of around 10,000 objects includes valuable instruments from Europe and beyond, as well as music-related items from the Renaissance, the Baroque, and Bach's Leipzig period.
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  • 8. Naturkundemuseum Leipzig
    The Natural History Museum in Leipzig is a natural history museum in the city of Leipzig, Germany. The museum contains the insect collection of Alexander Julius Reichert.
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  • 11. Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum Leipzig
    German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1884 as Deutsches Buchgewerbe-Museum, is the world's oldest museum of its kind, dedicated to collecting and preserving objects and documents as well as literature connected with the history of books, including paper, printing techniques, the art of illustration, and bookbinding. The museum is housed in a modern €60 million annex to the German National Library in Leipzig build in 2011.The museum acquired in 1886 the entire book collection of Heinrich Klemm, which he had sold to the Kingdom of Saxony the year before. A rare copy of a 42-line Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum was among the books in the collection. At the end of World War II, the Bible was taken as war booty and transferred to the Russian State Library in Mos...
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