German Dresden: a museum that can interest a tourist

One of the most beautiful and wealthy cities on the planet on our planet is German Dresden. The museum, art gallery, park, theater and many other cultural objects of this metropolis deserve to be at least five minutes, but to visit. Here everything seems to breathe history, restraint inherent only to the Germans, and some kind of aristocracy. The museums of the city deserve special attention. Some of them are really unique and they represent expositions equal to which there is no more anywhere on Earth.

The largest museum of the city

The first attraction to be seen in the metropolis of Dresden is the city's museum, or, as it is correctly called, the Dresden City Museum. This is the most significant and largest object among those that enter the State Art Collections of this locality. The institution operates both temporary and regular exhibitions. They all tell the 800-year history of Dresden. They also tell about the culture, way of life and art of the city during these eight centuries.

In the institution, apart from the exhibits, there is also a beautiful scientific exhibition, which Dresden is proud of. The museum offers to get acquainted with photos, postcards and daguerreotypes with panoramas of the city. The most valuable is an exposition consisting of one thousand photographs taken during the end of the XIX century and until the 30s of the last century.

The place where all transport was collected

The Transport Museum (Dresden) is one of the most interesting institutions of the city. The institution is located in a modest building on the Neumarkt square. If you look at this building, you can hardly say that it can accommodate a huge number of vehicles. But nevertheless it is so: the museum has quite a lot of different exhibits.

Its history is a tourist attraction since May 1956. Today there are six exposures: water and railway transport, trams, aviation, railroad model, bicycles, cars and motorcycles. The exhibition has all kinds of retro cars, old trailers, trams, locomotives and wagons.

Here visitors will get acquainted with the history of trams in the city, and also they will be able to see an old tram, dating back to 1895. In the hall, demonstrating aviation transport, gliders of 1894 are presented. Also, it tells about how the first German passenger turbojet plane 152 was created. In the collection of the museum there are bicycles, the history of which reaches two centuries, and rare motorcycles, which were used in the century before last.

One of the finest porcelain collections in Europe

If you decide to visit Dresden, the porcelain museum needs to be visited without fail. It is located in the southern wing of the Zwinger Palace. The establishment was founded in 1715 and is of great interest to visitors. The founder of the museum was Augustus the strong, Elector of Saxony. The man was obsessed with passion for porcelain. The prince's fascination allowed him to collect an unsurpassed collection of porcelain, which at that time was considered the largest in the world. Throughout 1710-1721 he managed to collect more than 23 thousand units of early Chinese, Maysen and Japanese ceramics.

The modern exposition consists of about 20 thousand exhibits. Of these, 750 of the best items are exhibited in the stunning Baroque interiors of the Zwinger Palace. In addition, samples of East-Asian porcelain from the 17th century to the beginning of the 18th century are presented here.

Museum of Man

The Museum of Man, or the Museum of Hygiene, was opened in Dresden in 1912 by Karl August Lingner, a German entrepreneur. The initial task of the institution was to improve the health of the poorer part of the population.

Modern exhibitions of the museum are devoted to questions of anatomy, health, medicine and hygiene. The hall called "Glass Man" is the most popular in the institution. He depicts a person in the system of modern sciences. Here you can see a variety of figures in which pressing a button allows you to highlight some or other organs. Also, the exposition has models of the human body, parts of the body and figures of wax. In the museum there are such permanent exhibitions as "Recollect. Think. Learn "," Eat and drink "," Movement "and others.

Museum of Zoology

This is not all the attractions that Dresden can boast of. The Museum of Zoology, or the Dresden Zoological Museum - is another place that can be interesting for tourists. The institution dates back to 1728. You can find it on the outskirts of the city, where it borders on coniferous reserved forests. The oldest exhibits of the exhibition date back to 1587.

The museum consists of six departments: insects, preparatory, vertebrate and invertebrate animals, a library and a molecular-genetic laboratory. By the way, the local library is considered to be one of the largest specialized zoological institutions not only in Germany, but also throughout Europe.

In the collection of the institution there are over six million zoological preparations.