The mobile interaktive micromuseum
in the Villa Augustin on Albertplatz

Address:
Antonstraße 1
01097 Dresden

Tel: +49 (351) 8 04 50 86
Fax: +49 (351) 8 04 50 87

E-mail: info@erich-kaestner-museum.de

Opening hours:
Sunday till Tuesday 10 - 18 h
Wednesday 10 - 20 h

Thursday: for groups only (reservations have to be made well in advance)

closed: Friday, Saturday

You reach us
by tram lines 3, 7, 8, 11 at the DVB stop
"Albertplatz / Erich Kästner Museum" or
by train at the station Dresden Neustadt.
It´s a five minute walk from the station.

Admission:

Regular fare: € 3,-

Reduced fare: € 2,-
Annual ticket: € 10,-
(for pupils, students, civil servants, draftees, holders of the Dresden Pass, disabled persons; all of them have to show identifaction)

Families: € 7,-
Annual ticket: € 35,-

Children under 6 enter free of charge

Groups (maximum of 15 people per group)
A visit is only possible on Thursdays and needs to be reserved well in advance
guided tour and entrance fee € 4,- per person

School classes
A visist, possibly including a project, is only possible on Thursdays and needs to be reserved well in advance € 0,50 *
(maximum of 15 students per group;
* admission per student/attendant)

It is not possible that groups and school classes visit the museum without being guided.
information for teachers

The Erich Kästner Museum Dresden

The Erich Kästner Museum Dresden, founded in January 1999, was established to create a differentiated, contemporary centre dedicated to the memory of the multi-faceted life and works of Erich Kästner. The museum is a communication forum for all who are interested in Erich Kästner's life and works. Main themes are, among others, Kästner and his early years in Dresden/Leipzig, Kästner "... the man between the chairs", the reluctant outsider, Kästner and children as the "positive others", and Kästner and the media. Our public events include both traditional readings, lectures and discussions and experimental art events. Contemporary artists are invited to enter their projects in the database of the Erich Kästner Museum during brief working trips. We would like to encourage our partners in Dresden and outside Dresden in the literature/library sectors, theatre, film and media to present their own Kästner events.
Interested parties have witnessed the public growth of the museum since 19/02/1999 on our "construction site" and supported us. The micromuseum-to-be was simulated with an specially-made exhibition structure and its implementation was illustrated with changing presentations. Assembled material was documented using audio and imaging technology at the beginning of the second planning phase, and visitors were encouraged to become involved. The museum already has a considerable circle of friends, individuals and representatives from cultural, economic, scientific, political and media fields. A committee of experts advises the museum society on Kästner-specific topics.

The museum structure itself is not the only interactive phenomenon, its very growth is interactively. The objective is to largely to make do without financial aid from the state. Approximately DM 12,000 was raised by selling the 200 Gubener felt hats at family festivities, at the special Kästner events and in shops in Dresden. These donations were doubled by the matching fund of the Bürgerstiftung Dresden, as were the payments in kind. In this way, the Erich Kästner Museum had over DM 85,000 at its disposal and was able to finance the planning services of the Deutschen Werkstätten Hellerau and purchase content for the museum. As the willingness to donate did not diminish, the first museum financed by the public was completed by Erich Kästner's 101st birthday (23/2/2000). The first "module", a multimedia time machine, has been open to visitors since then. Audio, video and computer technology with internet access offer visitors material on Erich Kästner's life and works.



Erich Kästner Museum
in the Villa Augustin
Antonstraße.1
01097 Dresden
Tel. (0351) 8 04 50 86
Fax (0351) 8 04 50 87
info@erich-kaestner-museum.de

Opening hours:
Sunday till Tuesday:
10.00 - 18.00 h
Wednesday:
10.00 - 20.00 h

Accounts for donations

For: Expansion of Erich Kästner Museum

Stadtsparkasse Dresden
BLZ 850 551 42
Konto - Nr. 150 001 019

Dresdner Volksbank Raiffeisenbank eG
BLZ 850 900 00
Konto - Nr. 261 602 1004

Dresdner Bank
BLZ 850 800 00
Konto - Nr. 011 377 9700

Erich Kästner Museum
Antonstraße.1
01097 Dresden

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