September 29, 2023: Guided tour in Polish and English
One room – many languages The Sorbian museum is a place of encounter for people from the region and from all over the world with their different languages. For international guests the museum offers two guided tours in Polish and English, which will give an overview of sorbian culture and history. If you want to […]
Travelling exhibition “Wendish churches between Löbau and Lieberose” from 5th of August
Travelling exhibition “Wendish churches between Löbau and Lieberose” in Guben Wendish churches refer to Slavic natives in Saxony and Brandenburg. With the Reformation the Sorbian / Wends received the possibility to hold church services in their mother tongue. In the tows they got their own churches, often branch churches of German city churches. In some […]
Exhibition “In the heath. Sorbian hangs in the balance” in Lüchow
10.08.2018 – 14.10.2018 The exhibition examines the Sorbian roots in the Lusatian heath region between Senftenberg, Hoyerswerda, Spremberg, Weißwasser, Bad Muskau and Niesky. It deals also with the identity and value change as a result of the industrialisation and with the assimilation of the sorbian people. The unique costumes and customs of the Sorbians in […]
Folkartists decorate eggs in the Sorbian Museum
From Saturday, March the 3rd until Sunday March the 25 th folk artist display the art of decorating eggs in the Sorbian Museums each Saturday and Siunday from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. in the different techniques. Furthermore we offer the possibility to try it out yourself in a workshop. The participation fee is 4,50 […]
Memorial for Kito Lorenc
Last year the sorbian poet Kito Lorenc passed away. This year on March the 4th he would have celebrated his 80th birthday. On March the 22nd several sorbian institutions and further participants are reminiscent of him. At 2 p.m.a symposium organized by Serbski Institut in Bautzen and the Institut für Slavistik (Instititute for Slavonic studies) […]
Museum cinema „Die Rote Zora“
This March the festive hall in the Sorbian Museum will turn into a cinema auditorium for the last time in connection with the KRABAT-expositition. Saturday, March the 10nth at 4.00 p.m. we show you the film „Die Rote Zora” (premiere 2008) from the director Peter Kahane after the book from Kurt Held. The setting of […]
KRABAT-lecture March 14th „Kroatische und osmanische Militaria in der Krabat-Ausstellung des Sorbischen Museums in Bautzen“
„Kroatische und osmanische Militaria in der Krabat-Ausstellung des Sorbischen Museums in Bautzen“ How does a richly decorated dagger from the 16nth century get into the Krabat-exhibtion of the Sorbian Museum? What is the connection with the scimitar from Kairo and the court in Dresden? What is a Jatagan or a Pusikan? Who were the Janissaries? […]
„Pictures of saints and heaven‘s letters – Beneficial objects of popular belief“
Coffee at three o‘clock, Wednesday, March the 7nth 2018 How supersticious were our ancestors? Concerning this pont, it is hardly important, whether somebody was catholic or protestant. In times of hardship, especially in war times and crisis situations people believed in the power of handwritten or printed Himmelsbriefs/ heaven‘s letters, that you would carry with […]
Workshop with Regina Herrmann
For Saturday, February the 17nth we invite you th the workshop„Helden aus Filz – Heroes out of felt“- from 10.00 a.m. until 5.00 p.m. On this workshop you have the occasion to create your own glove puppet. This can be a mythological or a fairytale figure or a figure from your fantasy. This offer is […]
Programme offers for the winter holidays
Children‘s programme In the programme „Zymske wjeselo – Winterfun” we explain, how children used to sledge and skate on ice and what customs were carried out about 100 years ago. Be curios for our special „selection“ from the attic. How did they move on ice and snow back in the days? At the end we […]