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It’s always hard to fill the shoes of someone who used to do your job very well. If you’re the choirmaster at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, guess whose shoes you have to fill? Bach’s. (No pressure.) Leipzig is closely connected to classical music—Wagner was born here, and Mendelssohn established a conservatory here in 1843. If you’re more of a melancholy, contemporary type, visit during the Wave-Gotik-Treffen, billed as the world’s largest "dark" (Goth, industrial, punk, etc.) music festival.
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1. Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universitat Leipzig
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4.5 based on 20 reviews
2. Mendelssohn-Haus Leipzig
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4.5 based on 269 reviews
Classical music fans will appreciate a visit to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's home (now a museum) and his music salon where we hold concerts every Sunday at 11:00. Find information about Mendelssohn's family, esp. about his sister Fanny Hensel.
Reviewed By DaleCheshire
This museum is a masterclass in how to construct a museum (and most in Germany are). Mendelssohn's house has been furnished, by and large, just how it was in the composer's day. There's a beautiful garden, too, welcoming staff and a tranquil atmosphere. A fully comprehensive monument to Mendelssohn, his wife and his sister. There is a room where you can 'conduct' some of his pieces and 'control' the 'orchestra', a room where you can listen to all of Mendelssohn's music and a garden house with a current temporary exhibition on Beethoven, with several of his pieces to listen to.
3. Grassimuseum
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4.5 based on 225 reviews
The Grassimuseum, an impressive building complex in Art-Deco style, houses three museums of domestic and international significance: the Museum of Applied Arts, the Museum of Ethnology and the Museum of Music instruments. At the center of attraction in the three museums are their respective new feature of permanent exhibitions and alternating special exhibitions.
Reviewed By Trimalchio - Bergerac City, France
This is actually three museums in one complex. You can buy a ticked for just one, or at a discount for all three. I toured the musical instrument collection, which has some very beautiful specimens along with informative commentaries in German and English. What makes it more special is that you can listen to how some of the instruments sound in performance.
4. Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum
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4.0 based on 4 reviews
5. Museum of Ethnology (Museum fur Volkerkunde)
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4.0 based on 10 reviews
Reviewed By 924vincep - Woodland Park, United States
There are three museums in this large complex: applied arts, ethnography, and musical instruments. We opted for ethnography and were very impressed not only with the vast number of items from all inhabited continents, but also with how they were displayed, including various housing/tent exhibits showing the lifestyles of indigenous peoples.This showcase of everyday life in many world cultures includes linkage between religion, symbolism, and the practicalities of life whether in clothing, jewelry, weapons. food gathering, or survival. This excellent museum is worth the visit, but if you don't speak German, you may have some difficulties, especially with the staff. We encountered a grumpy woman at the admission desk with whom we had communication difficulties in explaining what we wanted to do, then told us they did not accept credit cards (?!), and then was annoyed that we did not have exact change (we gave her a 20 Euro bill for the 16 Euros charge for the two of us. The exhibits are absolutely fascinating, but you will have to navigate almost all of the first third of your tour without any English explanations, only German ones. After that English signage enables the non-German-speaking patrons like us to appreciate more fully what we are seeing. The museum would be well advised to increase such English signage throughout the exhibit and increase at least bilingual competency at the front admission desk.
