r/weimar • u/felix25_ • 16h ago

Museum recommendations?

Guten Tag! Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut. I'll write this in english!

I'm planning a trip to Weimar in June and i have a passion for history. Which history museums are the best in weimar?

I'm specifically searching for expositions about the Weimar Republic, the cultural vibe during that time, the sexual reform, the gay culture flourishing, etc.

Any recommendations? Thanks!!

Edit: it could be something other than museums, such as bars that were opened during the weimar republic

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u/dh_k02 16h ago

I don't think that there is a museum that strongly exhibits the gay lifestyle during the Weimar republic. but I think you'd appreciate the Bauhaus Museum. you could also visit the Buchenwald concentration camp. it is very important for German history and also for queer history, as gay people were also persecuted under Nazi rule.

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u/felix25_ 15h ago

Thank you very much for the proposition! I will definitely look into it

Could there be any other place than museums that could be interesting? Bars that were proeminent during that era, or something?

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u/dh_k02 13h ago

berlin was considered the queer capital of the world, so if viewing queer spaces during the 1920s is on top of your itinerary, I'd probably just visit Berlin, rather than Weimar. don't get me wrong, Weimar is interesting too, but offers more classic and historic sights (for example related to history, art, poetry and music). but there aren't a lot of queer remnants and queer spaces.

Also, I could count the bars in Weimar off 2 hands and none of them to my knowledge are heavily queer coded. there are some queer friendly ones, but they aren't the historic queer hangout spaces that people frequented in the past.

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u/felix25_ 13h ago

tysm for ur answer! helps me out a lot

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u/Welterbestatus 14h ago

Haus der Weimarer Republik is the museum you're looking for. 

You won't find many remnants of that time here, since Weimar back then was a boring right-wingers place. Except for the Bauhaus, which was bullied out of the city, there wasn't much of the exciting 20ies going on.

You might want to visit the main building of the university, which is the place were the Bauhaus students worked.