Cultural Programme

As usual also this year the European Summer University offers you several possibillities to visit museums, join us for exhibitions and discover hidden places of the city with the guided tours.

Thursday, July 19

• The Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (Leipzig Cotton Mill) is an industrial site in Leipzig, Germany. Parts of this 10-hectare site in the district of Lindenau are used today by art galleries, studios and restaurants.
• The Kunstkraftwerk (KKW) is an artist-run-space on the former area of a heating station with diffenent, mostly digital exhibitions.
  

Saturday, July 21

• The Bergbau-Technik-Park is an open-air museum which focuses on the brown coal mining in the south of Leipzig. It presents a complete conveying cycle of a surface mine in an authentic and comprehensible way.
  

Wednesday, July 25

EITHER

• The German National Library is entrusted with the task of collecting, permanently archiving, bibliographically classifying and making available to the general public all German and German-language publications from 1913, foreign publications about Germany, translations of German works, and the works of German-speaking emigrants published abroad between 1933 and 1945 (source: DNB).
  It is also home for the "Signs - Books - Networks: From Cuneiform to Binary Code" permanent exhibition at the German Museum of Books and Writing.
• On the area of the former trade fair ground the model and pattern fairs where held from 1920-1991. It is about 50 hectare large and most of the fair halls are under cultural heritage protection (source: alte Messe).
  

OR

• The Museum for the printing Arts is unique for the scope and diversity of its exhibits. The outstanding feature of this museum is that all appliances, tools and machines are not presented as mute testimonies of their time, but as vivid working demonstrations of a wide range of techniques (Druckkunstmuseum).
• The guided boat tour leads us along one of the oldest mail-order houses of Germany (Mey & Edlich), the "yarn factories" (currently the greatest industrial monument of Germany) and the villas of several important families of Leipzig such as Baedeker and Klinger. The tour leads us on the white Elster and the Karl-Heine-Canal to the Leipziger Palm-garden-dam (source: Stadthafen).