Museum of City History - New Extension

The Neubau is the centre of the modern Stadtgeschichtliches Museum. It houses the administration, collections and service departments. It is the keeper of Leipzig’s treasures and the town’s memory rolled into one.

The central repository is the core of the Neubau. It covers 1900 square metres on five storeys and offers the appropriate space for the extensive collection holdings of the museum. The modern standards and appropriate conditions for conservation ensure that the collections can be maintained and preserved. The library, the photograph collection and the documentation centre of the historical collections are regularly open to the public.

Among the classical functions of a museum – collecting, preserving, exploring and communicating cultural heritage – the educational work of the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum is becoming increasingly important. The Neubau as a laboratory offers new scope for such educational activities. In addition to the youth museum LIPSIKUS, the modern, two-storey exhibition space extends the range of presentation possibilities for the visitor’s programme: the gallery of the exhibition room can be used alternately as a room for study, events or activities.