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Cultural Highlights in Germany
Dresden The city of art and museums Dresden’s Museumsverband offers an exceptional art and cultural landscape where one is guaranteed to discover the unknown. Combining art and cultural treasures from a courtly, royal collecting tradition and valuable civil collections, Dresden’s museum landscape stands out due to showcasing many exhibitions in unique architectonic ensembles. TEXT: NANE STEINHOFF I PHOTOS: DAVID BRANDT I HL BOEHME I VOLKER KREIDLER I DIETRICH FLECHTNER CARLA ARNOLD I MARCO WENDE I FRANZ ZADNICEK
Portrait: Dr. Gisbert Porstmann, director of Dresden’s Museumsverband. © HL Boehme
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“We are the museums with a wow effect. I continually meet guests in our houses who are enthused about the fact that they would have never imagined to find such treasures in our museums.They make surprising discoveries and learn about the unknown,”Dr. Gisbert Porstmann, director of Dresden’s Museumsverband, explains. Dresden’s Museumsverband unites the city museum, a museum of technology, the municipal art museum and five smaller houses which pose as important remembrance places for
significant people. Through all museums, visitors can vividly reproduce and experience the entire urban development of Dresden. Dr. Porstmann adds: “Dresden’s museums are the cultural memory of the municipality.” More than 50 museums call Dresden their home. One of them is the Städtische Galerie Dresden. Dedicated to showcasing regional art and exploring the evolution of art from the 20th century to the present, 750 square metres of permanent and regularly changing presentations have attracted many visitors since the museum’s opening in 2005. “The founding vision arose from the knowledge that the best of Dresden’s art evolution is so specific and independent that it needs to be presented and honoured in its own museum. We want to help regional art to become public; independent of