From May 2016 to the late 2018 the Medieval Crime Museum is mounting a major exhibition on the history of people's belief in and persecution of witches - from the early days to the end of the great witch hunts.

The Reformation influenced nearly every area of life, not only in Germany but in other parts of Europe as well. It has also left lasting marks in art. On the occasion of the Reformation anniversary, the Grassi Museum of Applied Ar ...

Exhibition in the Museum der bildenden Künste with works by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son, Lucas Cranach the Younger, who are among the most important artists of the Reformation period and the German Renaissance.

Lucas Crana ...

What was only a ruin after World War II rose anew between 1993 and 2005 thanks to donations from all over the world. Today, as in old times, it represents the perfection of church construction according to Luther’s ideals. After i ...

With its almost 800-year history, St Thomas Boys Choir is the oldest cultural institution in Leipzig. Famous choirmasters such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Hermann Schein, Johannes Kuhnau and Johann Adam Hiller helped to make ...

During the Reformation, which ideas were carried from Wittenberg to Lübeck by Lübeck's merchants, the inner of  Lübeck's Old Town churches drastically changed: After 1530 the pictures and figures have been removed from the walls o ...

In 2017, the year of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a further section of the Renaissance wing will be opened: the east and north wing of the first floor will, for the first time, become home to the world’s largest colle ...

Original costumes held in the Rüstkammer that were worn by the electors of Saxony in the period from about 1550 to 1650 illustrate the luxurious princely fashions of the Renaissance and early Baroque, such as are otherwise seen on ...

In the location of the Leipzig guildhall there once stood Pleißenburg Castle. Breaking his promise to keep silent, which he had made after his hearing at the Reichstag in Augsburg, Martin Luther participated in the Leipzig Dispute ...

In the 16th century, new theological, geographical and scientific discoveries came into contact with each other and old world views started to crumble.