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Bauhaus Walk


Walks, Prices and Information

Visitors who would like to follow our guides in the footsteps of the Bauhaus will find all the information about the regular public tours here.

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Guided tours for groups and school groups

Would you like to make a special appointment for a tour in German or English? Here you will find further information, offers and contacts.

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AudioWalk »Where is Walter?«

No opportunity for a Bauhaus Walk? Let our AudioWalk "Where is Walter?" accompany you virtually on your individual tour of the historic buildings.

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The Bauhaus Walk

Take a walk through Weimar, follow the traces of the early Bauhaus and experience the exciting past and present of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

The beginnings of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar can be traced back to the 19th century. Originally an art academy, it was enlarged after 1945 to include a number of engineering disciplines which gave the university a modern technical character. With the inclusion of the Faculty of Art and Design, founded in 1993, and the Faculty of Media, founded in 1996, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has once again coupled the fields of art and engineering into one institution and has been carrying the name of the famous school of design since 1996.

THE BAUHAUS WALK PROJEKT
Originally created by students, the Bauhaus Walking Tour project is an extremely successful and integral part of Weimar’s cultural landscape. The tour guides, all of whom are prospective architects, civil engineers, cultural scholars or artists, show visitors what it means to them to study, learn, live and have fun at this unique university with its eventful history. The visitors are taken to the historic Bauhaus sites where they can relive the past and present of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Indeed studying at such an institution is like joining the ranks of the renowned Bauhaus masters whose aura is still palpable today. For this is where Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger 
and many others taught and practiced their ideas every day.

Tours

SHORT WALK
Main building of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, built by Henry van de Velde, with vestibule, stair cases, mural paintings, Gropius Room.
Duration: 1.5 hours

LONG WALK
Main building of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, built by Henry van de Velde, with vestibule, staircases, mural paintings, studios, Gropius Room, Ilmpark with Tempelherrenhaus and Haus Am Horn 
Duration: 2.5 hours
Please note that the route of the Long Walk through the Park an der Ilm contains uneven patches and stairs. The walk is not recommended for people with disabilities.

The Bauhaus Walks start with a minimum of five participants and are limited to 15 people per tour.


Open Monument Day on 11 September 2022


SPECIAL GUIDED TOUR »KANN SPUREN VON KUNST ENTHALTEN« (German)
The buildings of today's Bauhaus-Universität Weimar can look back on a varied history of use. They were built between 1904/05 and 1911 according to designs by Henry van de Velde. In 1919, the Bauhaus was founded here, which left its mark above all on the interior of the buildings. For example, murals were created in 1923 for the great exhibition of achievements. After the Bauhaus, which had become politically unpopular, moved to Dessau in 1925, the successor institutions sought to erase and reshape its traces. It was not officially rehabilitated until late in the GDR era. Since then, its designs in the university buildings have gradually been uncovered. The guided tour walks through the Van de Velde buildings in the footsteps of the Bauhaus masters and looks at the destruction, reconstruction and interpretation of their works.

Guided tour: Guides of the Bauhaus Walk, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Time: 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm (approx. 45 minutes, max. 20 people)
Meeting place: Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8, Weimar

You can find further events on the Open Monument Day on the following websites:
»» Events in Weimar (German)
»» Actions and events nationwide (German)


The favourite places of the Bauhaus Guides

To mark UNESCO World Heritage Day, the guides on the Bauhaus Walk will take you to their favourite places. Follow them around the campus of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and discover the places where the Bauhaus was founded in 1919 (german).

Bauhaus-Spaziergang: Nebentreppenhaus im Hauptgebäude der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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Bauhaus-Spaziergang: Prellerhaus an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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Bauhaus-Spaziergang: Hauptgebäude der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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Bauhaus-Spaziergang: Die Nacht von Adolf Brütt an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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Bauhaus-Spaziergang: Van-de-Velde-Bau an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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Bauhaus-Spaziergang: Foyer des Hauptgebäudes der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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Discover Bauhaus


The Bauhaus was founded in Weimar and worked from here through its ideas and works in Thuringia and worldwide. But it has also left numerous traces in Weimar. Visit the experimental Haus Am Horn  built in 1923 for the Bauhaus exhibition, find out all about the work of the design school in the new Bauhaus Museum Weimar or be inspired by how today's students live and work at the founding sites. 

100 years of Bauhaus

We took the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus in 2019 as an opportunity to reflect on the historical Bauhaus, its impact and our present as a university. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar celebrated with a wide-ranging anniversary programme that focused above all on the present of our university in a new age. Find out more on our anniversary website.

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Haus Am Horn

The Haus Am Horn is the only architecture realised by the Bauhaus in Weimar. It was built in 1923 as an model house for the Bauhaus exhibition and today belongs to the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Here, the masters and students presented for the first time how they envisioned contemporary building and living.

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Bauhaus-Museum Weimar

In 2019, Klassik Stiftung Weimar opened the new Bauhaus Museum Weimar and has since presented the treasures of the world's oldest Bauhaus collection. As a place of open encounter and discussion, it recalls the early phase of the most important design and art school of the 20th century, tying its history to questions of how we envision our living environment today and in the future.

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