The Ernemann tower
A sixth-floor cafe with a free city view.
The city's technology museum lives in the old Ernemann camera works out in Striesen, under the domed Ernemann tower that rises forty-eight metres and serves as the landmark of the whole district. The address is not an accident. Dresden was for decades one of the world capitals of camera manufacture, and it was in workshops like these that the first mass-produced single-lens reflex camera for thirty-five-millimetre film was built in nineteen thirty-six. The displays follow that thread: cameras, cinema projectors, radios, calculating machines and computers made in the city, alongside whole floors given over to hands-on experiment rather than glass cases. The mathematics floor fills a hall with mechanisms visitors are meant to push, pull and misuse, and it is usually the part that wins over anyone travelling with children. The tower cafe on the sixth floor is free to enter without a ticket and gives a wide view eastwards across Dresden. If you intend to come, come soon. The museum closes on the second of November twenty twenty-six for a deep energy refurbishment, and part of the hands-on science centre is due to resurface at the Landhaus near Pirnaischer Platz in the summer of twenty twenty-seven. Entry is eight euros and free every Friday from midday. Tram four runs out to Boehmische Strasse, a few minutes' walk from the door.
A sixth-floor cafe with a free city view.
A whole hall of machines you work by hand.
Junghansstrasse 1-3, 01277 Dresden
Yes if you are travelling with children or care about the history of photography; it is one of the better hands-on museums in eastern Germany. If you only have two days in Dresden, the palace collections come first. It sits about four kilometres out, a quarter of an hour by tram.
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