Exciting group tours are the best way to get to know the city and its sights. Our partners from the cultural foundations and the museums have great guided tour offers for travel groups.
Discover the Bauhaus buildings, the palaces and parks of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom under expert guidance. Get exclusive insights into the “Hugo Junkers” Museum of Technology, the Museum of Urban History and much more.
At a glance: Bauhaus buildings / Masters’ Houses / Bauhaus Museum Dessau / Mosigkau Palace / Luisium Palace / Oranienbaum Palace / Combined Palace and Park Tour / Wörlitz Palace / Gothic House and Stone Island / Gondola Ride / Coffee Gondola Ride / Johannbau / Technology Museum “Hugo Junkers” / St. John’s Church / Ferropolis
Tour Bauhaus Buildings
with tour of the assembly hall, Gropius’ director’s room, historic studen’s dorm
approx. 60 minutes
Group price in English 100 €
(groups from 10 pers., + 6 € entrance fee per person)
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Gropiusallee 38, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Phone +49 340 6508-250
Mail service@bauhaus-dessau.de
bauhaus-dessau.de
Tour Masters' Houses
with Director’s house, House Feininger / Moholy-Nagy, House Muche / Schlemmer
approx. 60 minutes
Group price in English 100 €
(groups from 10 pers., + 6 € entrance fee per person)
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Gropiusallee 38, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Phone +49 340 6508-250
Mail service@bauhaus-dessau.de
bauhaus-dessau.de
Tour Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Visit of the exhibition “Versuchsstätte Bauhaus. Die Sammlung”
approx. 60 minutes
Group price in English 100 €
(groups from 10 pers., + 6 € entrance fee per person)
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Gropiusallee 38, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Phone +49 340 6508-250
Mail service@bauhaus-dessau.de
bauhaus-dessau.de
Tour of Mosigkau Palace
Guided tour of one of the last largely preserved rococo ensembles in central Germany. The highlight is the gallery hall with Baroque hangings and works by Flemish and Dutch masters such as Anthonis van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
approx. 60 minutes
Groups up to 15 persons, entrance p. p. 9 €
Groups over 15 persons, entrance p. p. 7 €
Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz
Schloss Mosigkau
Knobelsdorffallee 2-3, 06847 Dessau-Roßlau
Phone +49 340 50255721
Mail schloss-mosigkau@gartenreich.de
Tour of Luisium Palace
Guided tour of what is probably the most idyllic complex in the Garden Kingdom. Discover the private retreat of Princess Louise.
approx. 60 minutes
Groups up to 15 persons, entrance p. p. 9 €
Groups over 15 persons, entrance p. p. 7 €
Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz
Schloss Luisium
D-06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Phone +49 340 218370
Mail schloss-luisium@gartenreich.de
Tour of Oranienbaum Palace
Guided tour of the chateau complex with Dutch style. Especially interesting are the Tile Cellar (summer dining room), the Leather Tapestry Hall and the Mirror Crystal Hall.
approx. 60 minutes
Groups up to 15 persons, entrance p. p. 9 €
Groups over 15 persons, entrance p. p. 7 €
Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz
Schloss Oranienbaum
Schloßstraße 9a, 06785 Oranienbaum-Wörlitz
Phone +49 34904 20259
Mail schloss-oranienbaum@gartenreich.de
Combined Palace and Park tours
The guided tour in the palaces of Mosigkau, Luisium or Oranienbaum is complemented by an accompanied walk through the associated park.
approx. 90 minutes
Group price p. p. 14 €
(groups from 15 persons)
See contact details at the tour offers of the different palaces.
Tour of Wörlitz Palace
Guided tour of the founding building of German classicism. The palace can be visited again on all three floors after extensive renovation. The original interior decoration is almost completely preserved.
approx. 60 minutes
Groups up to 15 persons, entrance p. p. 9 €
Groups over 15 persons, entrance p. p. 7 €
Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz
Schloss Wörlitz
D-06785 Oranienbaum-Wörlitz
Phone +49 34905 409-0
Mail schloss-woerlitz@gartenreich.de
Tour to the Gothic House and Stone Island
The Gothic House houses a unique collection of stained glass from the late 15th to the 17th century.
The Stone Island takes visitors to southern Italy with the replica of Vesuvius, the classicist Villa Hamilton and an antique theater.
approx. 60 minutes
Groups up to 15 persons, entrance p. p. 9 €
Groups over 15 persons, entrance p. p. 7 €
Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz
Schloss Wörlitz
D-06785 Oranienbaum-Wörlitz
Phone +49 34905 409-0
Mail schloss-woerlitz@gartenreich.de
Gondola Ride
The most beautiful views of the Wörlitz grounds can be seen during a gondola ride on the Wörlitz lake and canals. During the ride you will learn more about the ideas of Prince Franz in the design of the landscape park.
approx. 45 minutes
Price per person 12 €
( more than 15 persons 10 € )
Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz
Schloss Wörlitz
D-06785 Oranienbaum-Wörlitz
Phone +49 34905 409-0
Mail schloss-woerlitz@gartenreich.de
Coffee Gondola Ride
Complete the gondola ride on the Wörlitz Lake and canals culinary with a coffee table on the gondola.
approx. 60 minutes
Group price for 12 persons: 150 €
each additional gondola: 110 €
Coffee set p. P. from 12,50 €
plus cultural tax (0,80 € for 12 persons)
Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz
Schloss Wörlitz
D-06785 Oranienbaum-Wörlitz
Phone +49 34905 409-0
Mail schloss-woerlitz@gartenreich.de
Tour Johannbau
Guided tour of the permanent exhibition of more than 800 years of the city’s history.
approx. 60 minutes
Group price 40 €
(groups up to 20 persons, plus entrance fee per person 4 €)
Museum für Stadtgeschichte Dessau
Schloßplatz 3a, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Phone +49 340 2209612
Mail museum@stadtgeschichte.dessau.de
Technology Museum "Hugo Junkers"
Learn more about the work of Hugo Junkers in Dessau on a guided tour of the Museum of Technology, from the first gas boilers to aircraft construction. The highlight of the exhibition is the faithfully restored JU 52.
approx. 60 minutes
Group price in English 55 €
(Groups up to 20 persons, plus admission per person 7 €)
Technikmuseum “Hugo Junkers”
Kühnauer Straße 161a, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Phone +49 340 6611982
Mail info@technikmuseum-dessau.de
Tour St. John's Church
The tour makes special reference to the three original Cranach paintings Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, Last Supper and Crucifixion.
approx. 30 minutes
Group price p. p. 1 €
Please contact the team of the Tourist Information Dessau if you are interested in a guided tour.
Tour to Ferropolis
Discover the “City of Iron,” located 25 km southeast of Dessau. Five excavators of the former open-cast lignite mine form the coulisse for a unique open-air museum, which clearly shows the structural change of the region.
approx. 60 – 90 minutes
Group price in English 80 €
(groups up to 20 persons, plus entrance fee per person 8 €)
FERROPOLIS GmbH
Ferropolisstraße 1, 06773 Gräfenhainichen
Phone +49 34953 35120
Mail info@ferropolis.de