The Erich Kästner Museum has successfully implemented a new type of museum concept. The "mobile interactive micromuseum" is a piece of architecture, a work of art in itself and an everyday object that reflects the multifaceted personality and work of the world-famous author, cabaret artist, journalist and media personality Erich Kästner. In 1999, architect Ruairí OʼBrien designed the "walk-in treasure chest", a house-within-a-house that combines tradition and modernity and hands-on museum content with media technology. Visitors of all generations and cultures can playfully and independently explore the complex world of Kästner.
Erich Kästner Museum
Address
Antonstraße 1
01097 Dresden
Opening hours
Sunday/Monday/Thursday/Friday 10am-5pm, Wednesday 12.30pm-5pm, Wednesday 9am-12pm registered groups or by individual arrangement, closed Tuesday and Saturday
Prices
Adults: 7 euros, reduced rate: 4 euros, family ticket: 15 euros, reduced family ticket (with Dresden or Saxony Family Pass): 10 euros, groups: 9 euros per person, school groups: 3 euros per person (groups of 10 or more must book in advance), free admission for children under 6, cash only
Offers
shopspecial exhibitions
Literature café, bookshop, literary-musical programs, cultural events
Introduction to Erich Kästner and the museum concept, group guided tours, thematic guided tours for school classes of school years 3 to 13
Guided tours in English, French, Exhibition texts in Czech, Polish, Russian, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese
limited handicapped accessible
