Industrial Heritage & Museums

Historical treasures, modern art, or groundbreaking inventions – a wide spectrum of museums invites you to discover, marvel, and learn. Travel back through around 120 years of automotive manufacturing, meticulously presented at the August Horch Museum – often with a connection to the international motorsport stronghold: the Sachsenring in Hohenstein-Ernstthal. A special highlight, not just for train enthusiasts, is the Schauplatz Eisenbahn or the Markersdorf-Taura Museum Railway Station. On a tour along the historic tracks, you can explore the area around the Chemnitz Valley in an open-top carriage. Delve deep into the era of the textile industry, which significantly shaped the region, at the Esche Museum Limbach-Oberfrohna, the Textile and Motorsport Museum Hohenstein-Ernstthal, or the Tuchfabrik Gebr. Pfau Crimmitschau: when the gigantic, ancient weaving and knitting machine monsters rumble to life in the historic industrial halls, creating magnificent patterns from a colourful tangle of yarn before your eyes. The region’s rich industrial landscape has always been a patron and supporter of great art. High-calibre exhibitions at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz feature the Chemnitz Expressionist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Edvard Munch, or Max Pechstein in Zwickau. The Robert Schumann House in Zwickau houses the world’s largest exhibition on the life and work of the significant musician from Zwickau.