Museum für Kunst und Technik des 19. Jahrhunderts

Museum LA8 on the Lichtentaler Allee in Baden-Baden: changing themed exhibitions on art and technology of the 19th century.

Opening hoursAdmission from €9 Wheelchair accessible Restaurant

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About the museum

The palais at Lichtentaler Allee 8 was built in 1820 by a Baden-Baden building contractor and remodeled in 1822 following sketches by Friedrich Weinbrenner. It served as the residence of the Swedish Queen Frederica, at one time belonged to the Frankfurt banker Amschel Mayer Rothschild, and was later used by the casino lessee Edouard Bénazet and by the Internationaler Club, which organizes the horse races in Iffezheim.

The GRENKE-Stiftung had the property renovated from 2007 to 2009 and extended by a new building modeled on historical precedent. In April 2009 the Museum für Kunst und Technik des 19. Jahrhunderts opened there as part of the cultural center LA8, which also includes event halls and a chess center.

The museum has no permanent display but shows, on about 400 square meters, themed exhibitions that change roughly every six months, with loans from Germany and abroad. They link art, cultural, and technological history – so far on topics such as photography, flight, bathing culture, the high seas, and life reform – and show how inventions and ideas of the 19th century still have an effect today.

Highlights

Changing themed exhibitions on art and technology of the 19th century
Historic palais of 1820 on the Lichtentaler Allee
Public guided tour every Sunday at 15:00
Part of the Museumsmeile Baden-Baden

Founded: 2009
Operated by: GRENKE-Stiftung

Admission & discounts

Adults	€9
Reduced	€7Students, trainees, volunteer service participants, holders of the artCard, members of the Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte, people entitled to unemployment benefits, and people with severe disabilities (each with proof)
Children & teens	€5free up to age 12 · Young people from 13 to 18 pay €5.
Visitors with disabilities	€7Reduced admission with a severe disability ID (Schwerbehindertenausweis).
Students & apprentices	€7
Groups (15+ people)	€7 per personGroup tour €75 plus admission (max. 20 people).
Families	€18
Public guided tour (Sundays 15:00)	€3plus admission
School class including tour (max. 20 people)	€25Flat rate including 2 accompanying adults

Free admission with the Museums-PASS-Musée and for members of ICOM and the Deutscher Museumsbund.

Accessibility

Wheelchair accessible
Elevator
Accessible restroom
Accessible parking: no information
Service dogs welcome: no information
Tactile models & exhibits: no information
Sign language tours: no information
Easy-to-read materials: no information
Audio description: no information

Level, step-free entrance; all exhibition levels reachable by elevator; accessible restroom in the basement; folding chairs to borrow; help with access to the coat check and lockers.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

Kids’ admission	free up to age 12
Family ticket	€18

Family tours & workshops

Family tours, children's program "KINDERZEIT", vacation workshops, and holiday bags; for daycare centers, tours with a hand puppet and a mobile museum suitcase. Children up to 12 have free admission.

Getting there & parking

By public transit

Augustaplatz

From Baden-Baden station by bus lines 201, 208, 216, or 245 to the stop Augustaplatz, then a few minutes' walk toward Lichtentaler Allee.

By car via the A5, exit Baden-Baden, and the B500 toward Centrum/Congress, then follow the traffic guidance system toward LA8.

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Amenities & dining

Restaurant
Coat check
Lockers

Restaurant Rive Gauche in the cultural center LA8. Exhibition catalogs can be ordered through the museum.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this – please ask the museum directly.

Plan your visit

Guided tours	yes
School programs	yes
Good to know	Public guided tour every Sunday at 15:00. Private tours for groups and school classes, also in English and French, bookable at info@museum.la8.de or tel. 07221 9954586.