13Sep
ExhibitionFree
Tag des offenen Denkmals
13 September 2026
One day in September
The German open-monument day, kept in Weimar under the year's national motto — free, ticketed and limited.
ExhibitionOne-off
Wiedereröffnung des Stadtschlosses
Reopening of the City Palace
The residence comes back after a long restoration — three days, free, and the one weekend of the decade to see it.
One weekend, 2–4 October 2026
2–4Oct
In 30 days
2–4 October 2026 · 2. Okt. 16–20 Uhr, 3. und 4. Okt. 10–20 Uhr
About Wiedereröffnung des Stadtschlosses
The Stadtschloss has been shut for a long restoration and opens again over a weekend in early October — three days, free of charge, and the first chance in years to walk into the building the classical town was actually governed from.
Not a routine museum date
The residence sits at the centre of the World Heritage ensemble and is the one building in it that was a seat of power rather than a house, a library or a park. It has also been behind hoarding long enough that a whole generation of visitors has never been inside. Weimar reopening its palace is a different order of event from Weimar opening an exhibition.
Two new permanent exhibitions
One is on Weimar Classicism and reads the palace as the seat of power that shaped how the classical period came to be remembered — an argument, not a display of furniture. The other is on the building's own history, with archaeological finds and the life of the court. The poets' rooms are shown on guided tours.
Free now, ordinary afterwards
Admission is free across all three days, and the palace stays open later than it normally will. From the following week it settles into ordinary opening hours and an ordinary ticket, with one weekday closure — so the difference between arriving on the closing day of the weekend and arriving the day after is not a small one.
The point of the theme year
The foundation calls 2026 its year of "Öffnen" — opening — and this weekend is its climax. That is a neat piece of programming when the thing being opened has been closed for most of a decade, and it is worth planning a visit around: the palace will still be there in November, but it will cost money and it will not feel like this.
Dates
- 2–4 October 2026, 2. Okt. 16–20 Uhr, 3. und 4. Okt. 10–20 Uhr
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The Stadtschloss on the Burgplatz, with a new visitor centre.
Organiser
Klassik Stiftung Weimar
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Free across the opening weekend. From then on: adults 8 €, reduced 6 €, school pupils aged 16–20 3 €, under-16s free — Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00–18:00, closed Mondays.
Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026
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Stadtschloss WeimarPalace
Burgplatz 4, 99423 Weimar
This is that building reopening: the residence itself, after years behind scaffolding.