What exactly does… a conservator do?
100 years leave their mark on objects. Stefan Prießnitz, a conservator at the sam, demonstrates how architectural ornaments by J.J. Höppli are prepared for an exhibition.

Density—What Does the Research Say?
Density is a broad topic: What does density mean for a city? What role do green spaces, open spaces, transportation, and quality of life play? And what qualities does a sustainable city need to ensure that people feel at home there?

Three keynote presentations will shed light on different aspects of density. In the subsequent panel discussion, the participants will explore their perspectives in greater depth and open them up for discussion.

Featuring Prof. Dr.-Ing. Doris Gstach, Hans Fürst, Dr. Jan Silberberger, and Camillo Huber-Braun, Director of the Wiesbaden City Planning Office.

An event organized by the City Planning Office | No registration required.

“Inheritance, Wealth, and Tax Justice—Paths to a Just Society” 

Wealth is distributed very unevenly in Germany. The wealthiest 10 percent of society receive a large share of inheritances and gifts, benefiting from low tax rates and exemptions. At the same time, there is a lack of public funding for education, infrastructure, research, and climate protection.

Dr. Kai Eicker-Wolf from the DGB Hessen-Thüringen and social and tax law expert Dr. Franziska Vollmer will shed light on the current situation and discuss possible measures for greater tax justice.

Registration through the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. (opens in a new tab) 

Organizers: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Hesse Regional Office, and DGB Wiesbaden Rheingau-Taunus District Association.

“Our Legacy: Tax Me If You Can” – Reading and Quiz “Mind the Gap”

The year 2026 marks the 80th anniversary of the adoption of the Hessian Constitution. Against this backdrop, the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation are exploring the relationship between wealth inequality, social justice, and a stable democracy.

The play “Our Legacy: Tax Me If You Can” by Helge Schmidt and his team premiered in 2024 at the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden. The staged reading of this documentary research project highlights the mechanisms that fuel wealth inequality. Following the performance, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s financial quiz “Mind the Gap” invites the audience to engage further with the topic.

Featuring Martin Plass, Felix Strüven, and Sandrine Zenner from the acting ensemble of the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden.

In cooperation with the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

City Walking Tour of Wiesbaden’s Department Stores (in conjunction with the exhibition: “CONSUMPTION and I”)
Bormass, Blumenthal, Horten, Hertie: Kirchgasse and Langgasse once formed the vibrant heart of Wiesbaden’s department store scene. This city walking tour, led by consumer culture expert Janine Seitz, sets out to uncover traces of this history through the pedestrian zone.

The tour covers a range of topics, from Art Nouveau to the history of “Aryanization” during the Nazi era and the Economic Miracle, all the way to today’s vacant storefronts. The focus is also on the stories of Jewish families who helped shape modern shopping in Wiesbaden before the Nazis persecuted and expropriated them.

Meeting point: “KONSUM und ICH” exhibition at WerkRaum Wiesbaden, followed by a walk across Mauritiusplatz to the Karstadt and Kaufhof department stores and the LuisenForum.

Guided tour: Janine Seitz, expert on consumer culture.

Suggested contribution: 5 euros; free for those under 18. Groups by request.

Please register at infokonsummuseumde or by phone at 0176 99806148.

Workshop: VOZES pela nossa saúde – Health Begins with Information

Health concerns us all—and sometimes it’s not so easy to navigate the German healthcare system. As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, VOZES invites women to an open and informative workshop. Together with a healthcare professional, we’ll discuss breast health, prevention, and early detection. There will be time for questions, personal discussion, and information that truly helps in everyday life—presented in an understandable, accessible way, and without shame.

Register at teamvozesgermanycom

Repair Café on Tour “Repair Café
on Tour” is making a stop at WerkRaum Wiesbaden. Repairing together instead of throwing things away: Volunteers help participants tinker with and repair their favorite broken items. In this way, the Repair Café shares practical knowledge and promotes a more sustainable approach to everyday objects.

Open Holiday Workshop – Writing Like the Romans
When the Roman legions withdrew from Wiesbaden about 1,600 years ago, they left behind not only thermal baths and forts, but also their writing system—and with it, the foundations of our modern alphabet.

In the City Museum’s writing workshop, participants can use a calamus, ink, and papyrus to experience how people worked in a Roman scribal office. Papyrus, parchment, and wax tablets take center stage, as do Roman script and the Latin alphabet. At the end of the workshop, participants will create their own bookmark out of papyrus.

Free—for adults and children ages 6 and up—walk-in—no registration required.

Lisa Liebermann will lead the workshop.

Open Holiday Workshop – Let’s Design a Bauhaus Postcard
In the first half of the 20th century, the Bauhaus School not only revolutionized architecture and interior design, but also shaped typography and commercial art.

Solid colors and basic geometric shapes such as triangles, squares, and circles characterized the Bauhaus print workshop. In this workshop, participants will create their own Bauhaus postcards using primary colors, geometric shapes, stamps, scissors, and simple printing tools.

Free admission—all ages—no registration required.

Lisa Liebermann will lead the workshop.

What exactly is… Joana doing at the museum?
Joana Brauhardt, a research associate for the special exhibition “Christian Dell—From the Silver Pitcher to Goldgasse,” explains how an exhibition comes together—from the initial idea to the opening.

Open Holiday Workshop – Finger-Loop Braiding
Before zippers, Velcro, and spandex, ribbons and belts held clothing together in the Middle Ages. They often served as precious pieces of jewelry as well, featuring dazzling colors and intricate patterns.

In finger-loop braiding, you create artistic decorative ribbons using only thread and your own hands. Traditional craft techniques and “patterns” from the Middle Ages form the basis for making your own bracelets and pendants.

Free—for adults and children ages 6 and up—walk-in—no registration required.

Lisa Liebermann will lead the class.

Housing Project Days 2026 – Community Living, Shaping
the Present ­WOHN:SINN Workshop | 4:00 p.m.

How can communal living succeed? The Housing Project Days 2026 bring together housing project groups, experts, initiatives, and interested individuals for discussion. Lectures, workshops, and one-on-one conversations provide guidance, open up new perspectives, and create opportunities for networking.

The program also includes the WOHN:SINN workshop for interested individuals and those directly affected, presented in simple language.

No registration required.

Wiesbaden Co-living Coordination Office.

Housing Project Days 2026 – Community Living, Shaping the Present

How can communal living succeed? The Housing Project Days bring together housing project groups, experts, initiatives, and interested individuals. Presentations and workshops provide insights into conceptual planning processes, legal structures, and financing.

Open Studio: “We’re Making Paper Lights and Lanterns in the ‘Bauhaus Style’”

Information Session: MEMOR-I-ALL 27 — Normal. Different. Being.

What will happen at MEMOR-I-ALL from May 8 to November 9, 2027, and what opportunities for collaboration exist for civil society and government? The project uses aesthetic education to examine the persecution of people who were labeled as “sick,” using Wiesbaden as a case study. Installations, performances, spaces for encounter, workshops, and multimedia formats give visibility to those affected, link historical experiences to contemporary debates on standardization, and empower participants to take action in solidarity.

The central questions are:

• Who remembers whom—and why?
• Who is forgotten or overlooked in the process?

The event is aimed in particular at influencers from the fields of education, culture, and social services.
Registration is not required

Further information: redsloth-production.com/memor-i-all

A collaboration between Spiegelbild – Politische Bildung aus Wiesbaden e.V. and Redsloth Production. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) and implemented as part of the “Bildungsagenda NS – Unrecht” funding program by the Foundation for Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future (EVZ).

WItopia: An Evolving Exhibition Conceived and Curated by WandelWerkstattWelt

Pictures, stories, and visions of the future from children in Wiesbaden show how they imagine their part of Wiesbaden in the future. The works were created as part of the “School Year of Sustainability.”

The event presents the results while also taking them a step further: questions, inspiration, discussions, hands-on activities, and games spark new stories, visions of the future, and ideas. In this way, the exhibition continues to grow.

Best of Poetry Slam - One Night Only
One evening. One stage. Stories that make you laugh and cry, smile,
reflect, debate, and cheer. They surprise, move, inspire, and entertain—and above all, they stir your emotions.

Six outstanding poets compete with their own original works for victory—and, at the same time, for the audience’s favor. Because in the end, it’s the audience alone who decides who wins!

“Best of Poetry Slam” is a unique, accessible cultural event at WerkRaum Wiesbaden featuring the best of the best.
Among them are a multiple U20 Hesse champion, the German-language U20 Poetry Slam champion of 2024, and other defending champions.

The evening will be hosted by word acrobat, slam poet, and author Caro Leukroth and Alexis Stemmer.
Admission is free—donations are welcome.
Seating is available, and you may choose your own seat.

Open Holiday Workshop – Plant Printing

Project Day “My Healthy Wiesbaden”
In collaboration with the Healing Culture Network, this project day explores how art and culture can support healing. From 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., the free workshop “Healing Culture Basics—How Art and Culture Support Healing: Research, Practice, and Interactive Examples” will present scientific findings, practical approaches, and interactive examples.

Starting at 4:00 p.m., the project day continues with a joint program featuring a plenary session, breakout sessions, and a closing session.

Listen Up, Democracy

The “Listen to Democracy” audio walk brings the history and present of democracy in Wiesbaden’s urban space to life through sound. To introduce the project, Miriam Becker from cicero Agentur & Verlag will provide insights into its concept and implementation.

The “Mehr als Wählen” association invites participants to join in with a democracy simulation game and a quiz on the Basic Law. Following the project presentation, there will be time for questions, to try out the audio walk, and for a group discussion.

Opening of “MUTausbrüche – Loud. Powerful. Uncomfortable.”
The organizing group “WIR in Wiesbaden” cordially invites you to the opening of this year’s event series.

Courage arises when people listen to one another, encourage each other, and realize that they are not alone. The opening ceremony is designed to create a space for exactly that. Together, we will celebrate the kickoff of the event series “MUTausbrüche – Loud. Powerful. Uncomfortable.”

The event will begin with welcoming remarks from Wiesbaden’s city government, including Mayor Gert-Uwe Mende, as well as representatives from Department II for Economy, Sports, and Public Order and Department IV for Health, Social Affairs, Consumer Protection, and Housing. In the “Courage Talk” that follows, committed members of Wiesbaden’s civic and civil society will share their personal sources of courage. Musical performances and light refreshments will round out the evening.

The event is sponsored by the federal program “Demokratie leben!” and the Wiesbaden Office for Immigration and Integration.

No registration required!
https://wir-in-wiesbaden.net/ (opens in a new tab)

Open Studio – Historic Crafts: Finger-Loop Braiding / Making
Decorative Ribbons Before zippers, Velcro, and spandex, ribbons and belts held clothing together in the Middle Ages. It was not uncommon for them to also serve as precious pieces of jewelry in dazzling colors and intricate patterns.

Using traditional craft techniques and “recipes” from the Middle Ages, participants will create their own bracelets and pendants in this open workshop. Different combinations of colors and shapes offer a wide range of design possibilities.

Free—for adults and children ages 6 and up—walk-in—no registration required.

Stella Seifert will lead the workshop.

For the past ten years, sam—Stadtmuseum am Markt has been telling the story of Wiesbaden in the Marktkeller. In its anniversary year, the museum itself becomes the subject of an exhibition: In the WerkRaum, highlights from past exhibitions, posters, photographs, and films look back on ten years of sam. Lectures, open studios, and behind-the-scenes glimpses invite visitors to rediscover the museum and its collections.

The sam – Stadtmuseum am Markt is presenting a selection from the exhibition *Heiße! Quellen!*—a participatory photo exhibition organized in 2024 in collaboration with the HSRM and Wiesbaden residents. “Hot! Springs!” is to be understood in a figurative sense: Armed with cameras, the participants roamed the streets in search of places that symbolically radiate special energies. The resulting photo series, supplemented by personal comments, offer unique insights into Wiesbaden from individual perspectives.

We honor the man whose terracotta ornaments and architectural sculptures in the Historicist style shaped the appearance of numerous buildings in Wiesbaden beginning in the mid-19th century. At the Gläsernes Museum, we are showcasing excerpts from the exhibition *The Estate of J.J. Höppli in Wiesbaden*, which was on view in 2022 in the crypt of the Marktkirche. On August 28 and October 2, the sam’s conservator will demonstrate how J.J. Höppli’s architectural ornaments are prepared for exhibitions.

Every month, visitors to the sam select a favorite object from the museum’s collection, which is then displayed in the permanent exhibition. In the Glass Museum, we display a selection of these as object tiles. Every object has a story behind it—what’s your connection to it? We’re collecting your memories, associations, and stories on colorful postcards.