The Gothic Revival building
Towers and crenellations like a small castle in trees.
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The Leonhardi Museum is a strange building in the Loschwitz district on the bank of the Elbe: a Gothic Revival structure with small towers and crenellations that looks like a miniature castle among trees — originally an ice store and sandstone quarry, converted in the nineteenth century by the painter Eduard Leonhardi into a studio and gallery for his own work. Leonhardi was a landscape painter preoccupied with the German forest, and this early museum of his was among the first attempts by an artist in Germany to exhibit his own work in a building designed for that purpose, rather than waiting on the city's galleries. The city of Dresden runs it today as a contemporary art space: temporary exhibitions by artists from the region, changing several times a year, so the content differs entirely depending on when you come. The constant value is the building and the setting: Loschwitz is a district of villas on the Elbe slope, reached by tram or across the Blue Wonder bridge.
Towers and crenellations like a small castle in trees.
Villas on the Elbe slope near the Blue Wonder.
Grundstrasse 26, 01326 Dresden-Loschwitz
Blue Wonder Bridge (Blaues Wunder)The "Blue Wonder" is Dresden's beloved bridge: a blue steel structure of 1893 le6 minutes walk4.7
Albrechtsberg PalaceAlbrechtsberg is one of three palaces standing on the slope above the Elbe east 24 minutes walk4.8
Technische Sammlungen DresdenThe city's technology museum lives in the old Ernemann camera works out in Strie25 minutes walk4.6By tram to the Blue Wonder area, then a short walk along the bank. The natural combination is a full day east of the city: the Blue Wonder bridge, then the funicular and the suspension railway that climb to the district above, then Pillnitz Palace by steamer or bus. The Leonhardi Museum is a small stop inside that day rather than a trip in itself.