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Comfortably Seated?

A Discussion on Reissued Seating Furniture Classics in Saxony

Panel Discussion

Hear the Unheard

Musical Interventions in the Permanent Exhibition

In this concert performance, students from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts engage in a creative dialogue with machines and sounds, making the ‘unheard’ aspects of industrial culture audible.

Performance „Metamorphosis of Workwear“

Between Past and Future – A Textile Staging of European Industrial Cities

Wenn‘s Rachermannel nabelt

In a 90-minute workshop, participants knead incense cones and create individual incense figures.

Wenn‘s Rachermannel nabelt

In a 90-minute workshop, participants knead incense cones and create individual incense figures.

Night at the Museum

Have you ever wondered what a museum looks like in the dark?

Night at the Museum

Have you ever wondered what a museum looks like in the dark?

Public guided tour

of the special exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Public guided tour

of the special exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Textile Workshop with Nevena Ekimova

Discarded garments are reinterpreted using a variety of textile techniques.

Excursion to the Historic Braunsdorf Weaving Mill

The Friend's Association invites you.

Family Tour at the Volkswagen Engine Factory Chemnitz

Experience Industrial Culture

As part of the European Capital of Culture 2025, the Volkswagen Engine Factory Chemnitz opens its doors to external visitors.

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Networking Meeting on Industrial Heritage

Generational Change and Cultural Transformation

We warmly invite you to our networking meeting at the Chemnitz Museum of Industry.

Bike tour

Tracing the path of transformation

Performance „Metamorphosis of Workwear“

Between Past and Future – A Textile Staging of European Industrial Cities

Technical General Education between Cultural Mediation and Innovation

Annual Conference of the German Society for Technical Education (DGTB)

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Walk

Tracing the path of transformation

In the Footsteps of the Greats of Chemnitz

Opening “The unseen design classic” and film premiere

Cabinet exhibition

The exhibition opened with the premiere of the documentary "Chair EW 1192", followed by a discussion with concept creator Jacob Strobel, the filmmakers, and the protagonists.

Transformation in Chemnitz – the Just Transition Fund for a City in Change

European Support for Economy and Science

The event fits thematically into the guiding motif of the European Capital of Culture: Chemnitz as a place of change, action, and transformation.

Excursion to Kovářská, Czech Republic

Fully Booked!

Visit to the Museum of the Air Battle over the Ore Mountains on September 11, 1944

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Picnic Concert

with the Robert Schumann Philharmonic

Die Seilschaft – The Band of Gundermann – Balm and Ballads

Concert – Chemnitz Museum of Industry Open Air

Die Seilschaft stands for honest and powerful music that touches listeners’ hearts with profound German lyrics.

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Velocipediade

Annual Meeting for Enthusiasts of Historical Bicycles

Including auction, night ride, vintage bicycle tour, parts market, and more

Ray Wilson & Band - Genesis Classics

Concert – Chemnitz Museum of Industry Open Air

Ray Wilson is a Scottish singer and guitarist, the vocalist of the post-grunge band Stiltskin, and was a member of Genesis from 1996 to 2000. He performs with his own band, *Genesis Classics*.

EuroBean Chocolate Festival

Look forward to the sweetest temptation of the European Capital of Culture 2025!

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

UPHEAVAL – Hear the Unheard

Musical Interventions in the Permanent Exhibition

Young musicians engage with the theme of UPHEAVAL in this experimental concert performance within the permanent exhibition of the Chemnitz Museum of Industry.

Zärtlichkeiten mit Freunden - Rico Rohs & the Ines Fleiwa Quartet

Concert – Chemnitz Museum of Industry Open Air

5th Steampunk Festival

What did the future look like in the past?

Let’s write together

Workshop with Julia Davis

Event in English

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Chemnitz Museum of Industry Meets Film and Musical Music

The Chemnitz Museum of Industry warmly invites you to a special musical evening: *Chemnitz Museum of Industry Meets Film and Musical Music*, in cooperation with Projektorchester Würzburg e.V.

M+E Truck Comes to the Chemnitz Museum of Industry

Equipped with modern high-tech, it offers hands-on career information across two floors to explore and try out.

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Truth Marks

Lecture by Julia Davis

Event in English

Manchester as „Coketown“ and „Milton“

Irony and Reality in the English Industrial Novel by Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Cecile Sandten, TU Chemnitz

Bike tour

Tracing the path of transformation

WERK.STOFF

From Overalls to Pajamas – a Festival on the Transformation of the World of Work

June 6, 4–10 p.m. + June 7, 1–10 p.m.

Festival Tango Argentino Chemnitz 2025

Cooperation with the Saxon Mozart Society

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Depot Concert: “Vexations” by Erik Satie

A very special concert experience behind the scenes at the Chemnitz Museum of Industry.

Walk

Tracing the path of transformation

From Workwear to New Work

Public guided tour

of the special exhibition "John Cage. Museumcircle"

International Museum Day

Guided tours and hands-on activities with free admission

Music connects

Final concert

Students from Poland and Germany make music across borders

Bike tour

Tracing the path of transformation

Chemnitz Museum Night

Under the motto Unity, the Chemnitz Museum of Industry showcases the industrial history of Saxony and Europe.

Public Guided Tour

of the Special Exhibition "Tales of Transformation"

Singing Across Borders

Two choirs perform songs of resistance

The HEART CHOR from Annaberg-Buchholz and Septem Cantet from Klášterec nad Ohří take you on a journey through the history of songs against oppression, showing that they are international.

Bubble painting

Easter holiday program

Bubble painting

Easter holiday program

Excursion to Wernesgrün and Schönheide

The Support Association invites You

Bubble painting

Easter holiday program

Bubble painting

Easter holiday program

Public guided tour

of the permanent exhibition with a focus on "fit. A Saxon success story"

Experience Saxon industrial culture from three centuries

Come Together

Special concert

School Project with the Percussion Duo *Double Drums* in Cooperation with the Municipal Music School Chemnitz and the Chemnitz Museum of Industry

Open workshop

Sewing, weaving, crafting

Planting Festival

Apple trees and industrial culture – do they fit together?

Of course! Together we'll make our outdoor area even more beautiful and plant apple trees.

Know.Share.Discover

Night of the Libraries

For the first time, the Night of the Libraries is being held nationwide.

Night at the Museum

Participants accompany the museum management on an exclusive and exciting tour through the darkened museum.

Night at the Museum

Participants accompany the museum management on an exclusive and exciting tour through the darkened museum.

Stories Between Grey and Glitter

Reading and Discussion with Lenka Elbe and Tina Pruschmann

Moderation: Christina Frankenberg

Public guided tour

of the special exhibition "John Cage. Museumcircle"

John Cages Song Books – Music for Nervous Systems

Concert

The four musicians of the Micro Oper Munich have selected pieces from John Cage’s famous collection of experimental concept works between music and theater and follow four individual paths through this large building.

Schütz, Cage & Röbel in a Metamodern Dialogue

Concert - World premiere

As part of the exhibition *John Cage. museumcircle*, the Chemnitz Museum of Industry invites you to a first concert. Works by Heinrich Schütz, John Cage, and Richard Röbel – world premiere

Public guided tour

of the special exhibition "John Cage. Museumcircle"

Metamorphosis of Workwear

Open afternoon

The blue overall is a versatile garment; it can be practical workwear or an extraordinary designer piece. In *Metamorphosis of Workwear*, it becomes an artistic projection surface for industrial culture.