All history museums and attractions to visit in Leipzig

Leipzig (Saxony) is a good place to visit if you are interested in history. Below we list all 12 history museums in Leipzig, to lose yourself in the place's cultural heritage and local history.

Are you a real history buff and are you looking for the best history museums to visit in Leipzig? These are the ones:

  1. Bach Museum1

    Bach Museum

     Leipzig
    The Bach Museum is a museum in Leipzig that is dedicated to the composer Johann Sebastian Bach and his family. It is located in the Bosehaus where the Bach Archive is located. In addition to original pieces from Bach's life, interactive elements have also been added to the presentation. There are mu
  2. Museum in der Runden Ecke2

    Museum in der Runden Ecke

     Leipzig
    The Museum in der Runden Ecke is a museum in Leipzig on the history, structure and operation of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) in the GDR. The museum houses the permanent exhibition "Stasi - Power and Banality".
  3. Zeitgeschichtliches Forum3

    Zeitgeschichtliches Forum

     Leipzig
    The Zeitgeschichtliche Forum is a museum in Leipzig that illustrates the history of the German division, of everyday life in the communist dictatorship of the GDR and of the reunification process as well as the challenges that face the reunited Germany in the 21st century. The permanent exhibition b
  4. Museum of Local History (Stadtgeschichtliches)4

    Museum of Local History (Stadtgeschichtliches)

     Leipzig
    The Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig is a museum in Leipzig that collects, documents and exhibits objects, information and contexts of the city from the city of Leipzig in the early Middle Ages to the present. Housed in the city town hall, this museum is devoted to the history of Leipzig. Visitor
  5. German Museum of Books and Writing5

    German Museum of Books and Writing

     Leipzig
    The German Museum of Books and Writing (Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, DBSM) is a museum in Leipzig that is the world's oldest museum of its kind. The museum focuses on objects, documents and literature connected with the history of books, including paper, printing techniques, the art of illustr
  6. Torhaus Dölitz6

    Torhaus Dölitz

     Leipzig
    The Torhaus Dölitz (Gatehouse Dölitz) is the remnant of a noble residence, the castle Dölitz. Large parts of Dölitz Castle and with it the gatehouse were built in the 17th century. The gatehouse contains a tin figure museum, the collection is one of the three largest publicly accessible worldwide wi
  7. Grassi Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig7

    Grassi Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig

     Leipzig
    Grassi Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig is a large ethnographic museum in Leipzig in Germany. The museum holds a collection of around 200,000 objects, making it one of the largest ethnographic collections in Germany. The objects can be geographically categorized, with objects form East Asia, Southeast
  8. Naturkundemuseum8

    Naturkundemuseum

     Leipzig
    The Naturkundemuseum is a natural history museum in Leipzig with geological-paleontological, botanical, zoological and archaeological collections. The museum includes the insect collection of Alexander Julius Reichert. The collections contain a large number of scientifically valuable exhibits. Among
  9. Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig9

    Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig

     Leipzig
    The Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig (Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig) is a museum in Leipzig that holds a collection of approximately 7,000 finds from several millennia, from the Paleolithic and pre-dynastic cultures of Egypt throughout all periods of Pharaonic Egypt (early E
  10. Museum Schloss Frohburg10

    Museum Schloss Frohburg

     Leipzig
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    Museum im Stasi-Bunker

     Leipzig
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    Kriminalmuseum des Mittelalters

     Leipzig
    The Kriminalmuseum des Mittelalters is a museum in Leipzig with historic torture and execution instruments of medieval times. The museum wants its visitors to experience the atrocities of the medieval legal history up close and discuss one of the worst chapters in history.