Now the audio tour for adults and also the animated children’s tour can be used freely using QR codes and a private mobile device. A link to the museum page opens by scanning or photographing the codes and the respective stations are explained.

The audio guide is available in the following seven languages: German, English, French, Polish, Russian, Czech and of course Sorbian. The video guide is available in Sorbian, German, English and Polish. We wish you an entertaining museum tour with interesting information about Sorbian history and culture!

Figures of girls from the four Sorbian costume areas pose in front of the house model of the Sorbian Museum.

Gotthard Steglich from Steina designed these wooden figures based on the model of the flower girls from the Ore Mountains. In the near future the friends want to take a look at different things in the museum – it remains exciting.

Some time ago, part of the new graphical concept was put into effect at the eastern face of our museums building. The logo of the Serbski muzej – Sorbian museum was placed there to ensure easier navigation for visitors coming from the Matthias Tower. Last week followed the attachment of a new inscription at the entrance. Aside from these improvements our tickets and vouchers were already in January refurbished with a new design.

The Sorbian Museum reopened its doors to the public on 5th May 2020. Additional measures are now required with regard to compliance with distancing rules and hygiene regulations. We ask all visitors to follow these corresponding guidelines.  Your Museum Team

Measures for Visitors to the Sorbian Museum

• According to the legal regulations, wearing a face mask in the Museum is obligatory for adults and children aged 6 and up. Visitors who do not comply with this rule will be denied admission to the Museum.
• Please observe the distance markings and information displayed in the foyer and the exhibition areas.
• Please comply with the general hygiene regulations and measures in accordance with the recommendation of the Robert Koch Institute.
• The Museum staff will use visitor management measures to regulate the size of groups and numbers of visitors in the Museum at any one time in accordance with the legal requirements.
• Contactless payment methods are preferred.
• Visits that have been booked in advance help to reduce waiting times and crowds of people.
• Our Museum Café will remain closed until further notice.
• For hygiene reasons, interactive media stations will remain out of service.
• In the educational area, tables and chairs have been spaced out at an appropriate distance for extended stays at the Museum.
• Guided tours for families living in the same household are available on request.
• In all other cases, the Visitor Regulations of the Sorbian Museum apply.
• Please also refer to the Museum website for information on the current situation.

Special Exhibitions in 2020

The special exhibition “Jutry w Serbach / Sorbian Easter” has been extended until 23rd August 2020. According to current plans, the art exhibition “Colours in the Distance. The Painter Ante Trstenjak and the Sorbs of Lusatia” is expected to open on 20th September 2020.

“SERBSKI STREET STYLE”

Do you like fancy fashion? Do you know the Sorbian people and their traditional costumes? Join us, to see, how young students and experienced fashion designers created cool new Sorbian clothes in a modern way. We can do this ourselves! Let us develop patterns and accessories. (material costs: 2€)

Dates: 15 October and 24 October 2019 from 10 until 12 o’clock

“Golden autumn”

All you need is some paint and leaves. We make creative collages or build our own wind chime. Would you like to paint, to stamp or to construct? Autumn brings many colours into our lives. If it’s possible, please, bring some leaves with you. (material costs: 2€)

Dates: 17 October and 22 October 2019, 10:00 – 11:30 am

Please call in advance: 0351/270 870 11.

• 30 August 2019 – 1 September 2019

The Sorbian Museum is open from 10am until 6pm. Our permanent exhibition offers you a wide variety of history, culture and language of the Sorbs living in the Upper and Lower Lusatia. Adult or children audio tours are free of charge!

• 30 August 2019, at 5 p.m.: “Serbska reja” – Sorbian/ Wendish folk dances

Welcome to the “Old Town Festival of Bautzen“. Therefore we would like to invite you to join our dance and music evening presented by the music group “Serbska reja” at 5 pm. Don’t be shy, it is open to everyone, whether dance beginner or expert. (Free entry)

• 31 August 2019, at 5 p.m.: Concert “Aliquis”

The Czech group “Aliquis” plays in the historical hall at the Sorbian museum. Their music is based on medieval concords as well as on melodies of Baroque and Renaissance. To enjoy this magical ancient and fabulous music to the fullest, every song is played on a range of historical instruments. (Free entry)

Painting contest of the Sorbian museum “Think of Art!” 15 July 2019 – 6 September 2019

Strong colours, clear shapes and lots of feeling – all good ingredients to make some art in style of Expressionism. The sorbian artist Jan Buck is famous for this kind of art. Just look at these pictures above! Aren’t they amazing? He often painted his landscapes and still lifes like that. Let us create similar art works and join our painting contest “Think of Art!”.

photo 1, Sorbian museum, 2019                         photo 2, Sorbian museum, 2019

On 8th of September 2019, “Day of the Open Monument”, all your pictures will be shown at the Sorbian Museum. Please don’t forget to write us your name, age and address, so that we can inform the winners of our competition.

Who? Children off age 6 and teenagers

What? Create a still life (choose photo 1 or photo 2 for it), format A4 or A3, choose colours you like, for better imagination and collecting some ideas: look at our two examples painted by Jan Buck.

Entry deadline: until 6 September 2019

still life, Jan Buck, 2003                                           still life, Jan Buck, 2000

Contact:

Serbski muzej / Sorbisches Museum, Ortenburg 3, 02625 Bautzen

Tel.: 03591 270 870 17; www.sorbisches-museum.de

Don’t you have any idea what to do in your long, long summer holiday? What’s about a trip to us, to the Sorbian museum? We have got one and a half hour time to make something creative and to wander around our exhibitions. Our holiday programm starts always at 1.00 pm. Come on and let’s explore!

 “Wobrazy krajiny – Pictures of a landscape”

What can you see or what can’t you see? Why does our home country change its appearance? What is brown coal and for what are we using it? Come and see our special exhibition. At the end you can make your own art with charcoal or create your own “Land art”. When? 9.7.; 16.7.; 23.7.; 30.7; 13.8.

“Peter Stocking and Martha Ladder”

What do you do with your old socks, stockings and tights with lots of holes in it? Or you know this feeling: there is one single sock, but where is the other? Please, don’t throw them away, but take them with you! We want to try to make our own puppets made of socks. Did you already know that your great-grandparents were used to it to make their own toys? Come and see what they did in the old days. When? 11.7; 18.7; 25.7; 15.8.

Are there any questions? Then please, contact us as follows: 03591/270870-0 or sekretariat@sorbisches-museum.de

We are looking forward to your coming, enjoy your summer holiday.

KUNSTBUS 15/06/2019: 10.00 am until 6.00pm

The wheels on the bus go round and round… and will bring you to us, where you can enjoy our permanent exhibition and current special exhibition “Wobrazy krajiny. Podobe pokrajine. Bilder einer Landschaft. Wobraze krajiny.“. In addition to that you can enjoy watching short films of the film festival Cottbus with this year’s topic HOME COUNTRY or listening to music by “Mlokawka” at 4.00 pm.

Programme:

Film loops start at 10.00 am and will repeat on every full hour, except 4.00 pm.

FRIEDENKRIEGEN … Z WÓJNY JĚDU (COMING HOME) … Maja Nagel/Julius Günzel, DE 2017

ZMIJ – THE DRAGON … Angela Schuster, DE 2016

MĚR (PEACE) … Anne-Kathrin Rensch/Clemens Schiesko, DE 2015

4.00 pm duo „Mlokawka“, singing and playing the guitar by Walburga Walde and Max Löb

Afterwards you can enjoy our programme of “Long Night of the Culture”.

Places of interest and time schedule for KUNSTBUS:

You can book your tickets in advance at the Sorbian museum from now on!

Ticket costs: 9€ for driving around on the KUNSTBUS as well as free entry into all places which take part in this event, children until the age of 14 accompanied by adults don’t need to pay the drive, reduced tickets (for pupils, students and pensioners): 5€.
New this year! Ticket for KUNSTBUS = Ticket for “Long Night of the Culture” in Bautzen, on 15^th of June.

15/06/2019 „Long Night of the Culture“, from 6.00 pm until 12.00 pm

Enjoy art, films and music at the Sorbian museum!

Programme:

Special exhibition »WOBRAZY KRAJINY. PODOBE POKRAJINE. BILDER EINER LANDSCHAFT. WOBRAZE KRAJINY.« PŘECHOD. PREHOD. ÜBERGANG. PŚECHOD 03, is open until midnight!

• Film loops start at 6.00 pm and will repeat on every full hour (30 min):

FRIEDENKRIEGEN … Z WÓJNY JĚDU (COMING HOME) … Maja Nagel/Julius Günzel, DE 2017

ZMIJ – THE DRAGON … Angela Schuster, DE 2016

MĚR (PEACE) … Anne-Kathrin Rensch/Clemens Schiesko, DE 2015

• 7.00 pm until 7.30 pm: duo »Mlokawka« singing and playing the guitar by Walburga Walde and Max Löb
• 8.00 pm: feature film Wenn wir erst tanzen … Dirk Lienig/ Dirk Heth/ Olaf Winkler, DE 2018, 93 min
• 6.00 pm until 10.00 pm Watch out children! J „Long Night for Kids“ – Magic shadow figures tell us their stories in secret.

We are the Duo „Mlokawka”. Our name has got two words in one = mloko + kawka. First means milk and shall be hint for our sorbian roots. The second word means a woman, whose head is full of ideas and she is playful. Music is one kind of art, so the singer Walburga Walde and the guitar player Max Löb experiment with songs, jazz, contemporary music, noices and different sounds. Musical compositions and improvisations are connected to Sorbian and german poetry. The expression becomes deeper and stronger. Come and listen to them!

Ticket prices: „Long Night of the Culture 2019“ = „KUNSTBUS 2019“ on 15^th of June

• advance booking: 5,00 €
• in the evening: 8,00 €
• off 10.00 pm: 3,00 €

What are the benefits of this ticket? On 15^th of June 2019, from 6.00 pm until 12.00 pm entry into all institutions who participate. You can drive the whole day with the KUNSTBUS.

Off 6.00 pm the tickets can be purchased at all institutions that are part of this event.

Some drinks and finger food will be provided!

KUNSTBUS 16/06/2019: 10.00 am until 6.00 pm

Programme: This year you can visit our permanent exhibition or special exhibition „Wobrazy krajiny. Podobe pokrajine. Bilder einer Landschaft. Wobraze krajiny.” Or you can watch short films of the film festival Cottbus with this year’s topic “HOME COUNTRY” as well as a feature film.

• Film loops start at 10.00 am and will repeat on every full hour, except 4.00 pm. All this happens in cooperation with FilmFestival Cottbus.

FRIEDENKRIEGEN … Z WÓJNY JĚDU (COMING HOME)… Maja Nagel/Julius Günzel, DE 2017

ZMIJ – THE DRAGON … Angela Schuster, DE 2016

MĚR (PEACE) … Anne-Kathrin Rensch/Clemens Schiesko, DE 2015

• At 4.00 pm:

SPRENGBAGGER 1010… Carl Ludwig Achàz-Duisberg, DE 1929, 89 min., silent film, music by Walter Gronostay, it takes place at institution of Bernd Thewes

Born in 1990 in Worklecy-Räckelwitz and currently living in Budyšin-Bautzen. In the year 2011, I began my studies in history, political science and musicology at the Technical University of Dresden, which I concluded in 2017 as Master of Arts.

As scientific graduate trainee at the Serbski muzej – Sorbisches Museum I am primarily responsible for planning and carrying out the removal of the museum’s depot to a new location while parallel checking the stock of museum objects. Furthermore I am part of it to work on a conception for a special exhibition.