museum's birthday

From January to December, the museum is celebrating its opening 150 years ago with exciting exhibitions, a variety of events, new high-ranking works of art, interventions in the permanent exhibition, interesting projects and collaborations. The anniversary year will focus on the special exhibitions A CHAIR AND YOU, FUTURES.MATERIAL AND DESIGN OF TOMORROW and the exhibition, which pays tribute to our international collectors and donors DANKE. MERCI. GRAZIE. HARTELIJK DANK.

Online exhibition

150 years - 150 objects

Discover objects from 150 years of museum history every week in our online collection! To mark our birthday, we have asked people from Leipzig to write about objects and thus want to provide a completely new, personal approach to our collection.

online collection (german only)

06.07.-31.08.2024

Exhibition in the City Library

In the City Library, the former and first home of the Grassimuseum, we display objects from 150 years of museum history. The exhibits and photographs provide an insight into the different fields of the collection.

Guided tours in the City Library (unfortunately have to be canceled)

25.05.-01.09.2024

Become A Curator

Presenting private collectors' passions

The museum displays exciting and curious objects from private collectors in 10 showcases in the 1st floor foyer. The exhibits are very different and show the range of the collecting spectrum - from rare Art Nouveau glasses to tin needle boxes, pocket watch stands
from the 18th and 19th centuries to bedside lamps from the 1960s, movable wooden animals from the 1920s, Art Deco boxes and stove tiles from the Renaissance to the Baroque.

Our festival weekend was so wonderful

On Sat, May 25 and Sun, May 26, we celebrated with all of you: There was live music, poetry slams, a 20s party, guided tours and talks and a family Sunday with presentations of various trades and a tour through 150 years of eventful museum history.

You can find impressions of the weekend in the gallery below.

smow Pop-up

Design classics to own/to sit on

Our cooperation partner smow is presenting the classics of modern chair design in a walk-in showroom until the end of the year.

Anniversary magazine

In cooperation with ZEIT Verlag, the museum has produced a 24 page publication to mark its anniversary.

Download (PDF, german only)

Conference on November 29 + 30, 2024

As part of the anniversary, the museum is organizing a conference on the topic of "The future of collecting. The Museum of Applied Arts tomorrow" with a keynote speech and six impulses on the topics of provenance research, opportunities of the digital, depot development, sustainability, collecting and outreach. The speakers from the DACH region represent the fields of conservation, universities, cultural foundations and museums.

Further information will follow.