Saxon Museum Prize 2023 goes to Dippoldiswalde

The Saxon Museum Prize 2023, endowed with 20,000 euros, goes to Dippoldiswalde (Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district). The award was presented to the Lohgerber Museum & Galerie in Dresden on Monday, as announced by the Ministry of Culture.

In its new concept, the museum had dealt intensively with the local environment and the special nature of the location, praised Minister Barbara Klepsch (CDU). The award ceremony also shows that the high professional quality of museums is not only to be found in the three major cities in the Free State. "Extraordinary achievements can also be experienced in smaller towns and it is worth discovering these museums."

The prize is awarded every two years to non-state museums for exemplary achievements in museum work and profiling in the local museum landscape. Two special prizes, each worth 5,000 euros, were also awarded. They went to the Zittau Municipal Museums for their special exhibition "1000 und Deine Sicht. From the outbreak to the emergence from the pandemic" and to the Zwickau Art Collections, which were honored for a long-term restoration project of works of art from the late Middle Ages.