Visit
Opening hours
Tues–Sun: 10 am – 6 pm
Holidays: 10 am – 6 pm
Only Applied Arts: Wed 12 am – 8 pm
On Mondays and on December 24th and 31st all museums are closed.
Prices
The current admission prices can be found on the respective museum pages.
Admission to all exhibitions at the three museums is free for people under the age of 17.
The permanent exhibitions at the Museum of Applied Arts and the Museum of Ethnography are free for everyone. Admission to the Museum of Musical Instruments is free on the first Wednesday of every month; the special exhibitions at the other two museums only cost €3 on Wednesdays.
Arrival
Museums at GRASSI
Johannisplatz 5–11
04103 Leipzig
The Grassimuseum is located on the eastern edge of the city centre, approximately 300 m from Augustusplatz (Gewandhaus/Opera).
On foot: 15 minutes on foot from the main railway station or 5 minutes on foot from Augustusplatz
Tram: Lines 4, 7, 12, 15 stop Johannisplatz
Car: parking facilities at Gutenbergplatz, Augustusplatz, Querstraße; car parks at Täubchenweg, Inselstraße, Dresdner Straße, Talstraße and Salomonstraße
Travelling by bus: If travelling by bus, please follow the local signs. Buses can only stop directly at the museum (Täubchenweg). A list of inner-city bus parking spaces and further information for bus travellers is available frome Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH (PDF).
Accessibility
Arrival
In this video you will find a detailed description of how to get to the Grassimuseum (only in German):
Two car parks for visitors with disabilities are located on the east side of the museum (on Täubchenweg). From there, you can reach the museum entrance at ground level via the courtyard.
The floor consists of granite slabs and small granite stones (pedestrian area outside the museum), the inner courtyard is laid with irregular natural stone slabs. To the right of the visitor entrance (staircase) is a lift leading to the ticket office foyer. The museum and all exhibition rooms can be reached via lifts
Facilities
There is a disabled toilet in both the ticket office foyer and the café foyer opposite. Wheelchairs can be borrowed and electric wheelchairs can be charged in the foyer. Seating is available in all exhibition rooms, in the foyers, entrance areas, inner courtyards and the deer garden.
Changing tables for toddlers and footstools for the younger ones are available in the disabled toilets.
Please do not hesitate to contact our ticket office and supervisory staff. Seating is available in all exhibition rooms. Mobile seating is available for group tours.
Guide and assistance dogs are welcome in our museum.
Blind and visually impaired people
A visitor brochure about the Museum of Ethnography is available at the ticket desk. It provides information about the service areas and exhibitions in large print, Braille and plain language. Furthermore, it contains tactile maps of all three floors of the museum with important orientation points.
The Museum of Applied Arts offers a media guide for blind and visually impaired visitors to accompany them through the permanent exhibition. Touch brochures in large print and Braille also provide orientation in the foyers and in the Antique to Historicism exhibition. The media guide and the brochures can be borrowed free of charge from the ticket counter.
Plain language
For museum visitors with limited German language skills, learning difficulties or dementia, the Museum of Applied Arts offers a media guide in plain language. It guides visitors through the three-part permanent exhibition in easily understandable language. The Mediaguide can be borrowed free of charge by groups and individuals and enables participation in cultural life.
In the Bonvenon-Room of the Museum of Ethnography, all texts are in plain language.
Guided tour in sign language
By prior arrangement, we are happy to organize a guided tour in sign language. Please contact our secretariat at grassimuseum@leipzig.de.
Café
Wide selection of different dishes and weekly changing specials. Terrace service in summer.
Opening hours
Tue, Thu–Sun, public holidays: 10 am – 6 pm
Wed: 12 pm – 8 pm
Telephone: +49 (0)341 222 93 30
info@literaturcafe-leipzig.de
Shop
The museum's own publications and extensive range of books, accessories, home design, postcards, posters and much more.
Opening hours
Tue, Thu–Sun, holidays: 12pm – 6pm
Wed: 12 pm – 8 pm
Phone: +49 (0)341 337 33 96
service@grassi-shop.de
