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From now on, the following opening hours apply to the Bauhaus Dessau:
Bauhaus Building + Masters' Houses: Wed – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm
Bauhaus Museum Dessau: Wed – Sun, 10 am – 6 pm
Visit Bauhaus Dessau
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.
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.
Current events
Out of the Display Case:
An Album by Chanan Frenkel
// Object Talk
Thu, 20 Jan 2022, 6 pmbr] Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Open Stage
>> Registration required
Space for Sound.
Seasons
// Concert
Fri, 21 Jan 2022, 7.30 pm
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
>> Ticket required
Between the Aesthetic and Political Avant-gardes: Journal of the Communist Student Fraction (Kostufra) at the Bauhaus Dessau and Berlin 1930–1932
// Online Conference
10 + 11 Feb 2022
>> Registration required
Winter Workshop “Mobile Exhibiting”
14 – 16 Feb 2022
10 am – 3 pm
ages 10 – 16
>> Registration required
Bauhaus Jazz Exploration
// Lectures, Talks, Concerts
5 Mar 2022
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
>> Ticket required
The Bauhaus Calendar
All dates, events and more at a glance.
Exhibitions
On Collecting:
Christmas Ghosts by T. Lux Feininger – figurative and abstract
// Intermezzo
4 Dez 2021 – 23 Jan 2022
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Be Hosted:
Ludwig Hilberseimer.
Infrastructures of the New City
// Intermezzo
28 Oct 2021 – 6 March 2022
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Experimental Space:
Grasping Infrastructure.
On Collecting and Curating
// Intermezzo
15 Apr 2021 – 6 March 2022
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Versuchsstätte Bauhaus.
The Collection
// Exhibition
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Bauhaus Lab 2021:
Vegetation under Power
// Exhibition
10 Dec 2021 – 20. Feb 2022
Bauhaus Building
HfG Ulm:
Exhibition Fever
// Exhibition
15 Oct 2021 – 6 March 2022
Bauhaus Building
Gropius House || Fictional:
Alexis Lowry, Hannes Bajohr and Rita Evans
// Exhibition
30 Sep 2021 – 26 June 2022
Gropius House
Archaeology of Modernism.
Building Research Bauhaus Buildings Dessau
// Exhibition
Bauhaus Building
Bauhaus Buildings Dessau:
Originals Retold
Bauhaus Building
Masters’ Houses
Dessau-Törten Housing Estate
News
![[1] Voucher issued on the occasion of the first international HABITAT seminar at Bauhaus Dessau, June 1987. Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Archive, inv. E 265.
[2] Construction of the Dakawa Development Centre, early 1980s. From Peter Wurbs, Aufbau des ANC-Entwicklungszentrums Dakawa in Tansania, in: Architektur der DDR 9/1989, p. 54.](im/264x177x1/292e0cbfe3c52382dfd939cd970f2823.jpg)
Bauhaus Lab 2022: Camps for Liberation
Call for Application
Three-month research programme for scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, design, and curation.
Annual Theme 2022
Hygiene
In 2022, Bauhaus Dessau focuses in its projects, exhibitions and events on the theme of Hygiene.
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).
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:
"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 …
