Plan your Visit
Opening hours, tickets, guided tours – find all the information you need here for your visit to the Bauhaus buildings and the Bauhaus Museum Dessau.
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Corona FAQ
Due to the corona pandemic, strict hygiene rules apply. Answers to the most important questions concerning your visit
Restoration work
The Bauhaus Building is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and must be well maintained. Read more about current restoration work.
App „Bauhaus Dessau“
The app "Bauhaus Dessau" accompanies you on an exploration tour through the Bauhaus city of Dessau. In addition to important …
Current events
Hilberseimer:
Infrastructures of Modernity
// International conference
27 – 29 Oct 2021
Bauhaus Building + Bauhaus Museum Dessau
The Bauhaus Calendar
All dates, events and more at a glance.
News
Building research archive receives original building elements from the Neue Nationalgalerie
Ten exemplary building elements have been transferred to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and will be available there for building research.
New director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in office
Dr Barbara Steiner took over as director and CEO of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation on 1 September 2021
Bauhaus Museum Dessau chosen as “Museum of the Year 2020”
Award by the German section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
Annual Theme 2021
Infrastructure
In 2021, Bauhaus Dessau focuses in its projects, exhibitions, conferences and publications on the theme of Infrastructure.
Exhibitions
On Collecting:
Textile territories (1) Otti Berger
An installation by Judith Raum
// Intermezzo
24 June – 31 Oct 2021
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
+
(2) Otti Berger + Lilly Reich
Bauhaus Building
Be Hosted:
Design Earth. Climate Inheritance
// Intermezzo
24 June – 3 Oct 2021
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Gropius House || Fictional
Sofia Dona, Mara Genschel and Andrea Acosta
// Exhibition
8 July – 14 Nov 2021
Gropius House
Experimental Space:
Grasping Infrastructure.
On Collecting and Curating
// Intermezzo
15 Apr 2021 – 6 March 2022
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Versuchsstätte Bauhaus.
The Collection
// exhibition
Tue – Sun, 10 am – 6 pm
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Archaeology of Modernism.
Building Research Bauhaus Buildings Dessau
// exhibition
daily 10 am – 5 pm
Bauhaus Building
Bauhaus Buildings Dessau:
Originals retold
daily 10 am – 5 pm
Bauhaus Building
Masters' Houses
Dessau-Törten Housing Estate
Digital offers
Google Arts & Culture: Bauhaus Everywhere – Traces of a design school in our everyday lives
Over 10,000 objects from the collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation digitally accessible worldwide
Films
Videos on guests, artists, scholars and topics of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Picture database of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
For research purposes, some of the digitized objects in our collection can be viewed …
Publications
Archaeology of Modernism
Preservation of the Bauhaus Dessau
The book focuses on strategies for preserving the Bauhaus Building. It presents the building— and its eventful history—from …
Ludwig Grote
and the Bauhaus Idea
This book is the first dedicated to this art historian, curator, and cultural politician Ludwig Grote whose activities …
Bauhaus Magazine
issue 12 – Habitat
Habitation is more than a functional roof over one’s head: the term “habitat” bundles the debates of post-war …
Bauhaus Dessau.
The Collection
This book provides an in-depth presentation of the second-largest Bauhaus collection in the world. It includes objects from …
Programmes and projects of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Bauhaus Residency
Artists from all over the world live
and work in the Masters’ …
Bauhaus Open Studios
Teaching Models
The Bauhaus Open Studios invite professors, Universities, Art Schools to …
Bauhaus Lab
Global Modernism Studies
International research programme for young professionals.
Bauhaus Master
Coop Design Research
The master programme transfers the Bauhaus approach of research-based design to …
Bauhaus Study Rooms
International network meeting of the academy
Digitisation project launched:
"Schools of Departure"
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is working on a digital atlas …
New research topic:
"Bauhaus im Text"
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is placing a hitherto unique focus on …
