Cycling boosts energy, reduces stress, and is good for the environment. The “Brückenschlag Mainz-Wiesbaden” project aims to ensure that, by the summer of 2026, significantly more people commute to work by bike instead of by car.

Over the course of one month, cyclists are encouraged to cross the three main bridges as often as possible. Counts will be tracked via an app and permanently installed devices. Companies will compete against each other in teams. The collected data will be used to plan a permanent high-speed bike route. A permanent bike express route would primarily serve as a flagship project for the entire region, making the connection between the two state capitals more sustainable and faster.

Location: Mainz and Wiesbaden: Public bike paths and streets; MAK Frankfurt: Drawing machine with a virtual representation of the routes traveled.

The creative agency for digital brand management serves clients ranging from international brands to small NGOs. With over 650 awards to its credit, the agency regularly receives national and international recognition. In addition to creating campaigns for clients, it also implements its own projects with a sociopolitical focus. In line with the agency’s own sustainability strategy, “Shared Value,” it develops products such as a CO2 app that encourages users to reduce their daily CO2 emissions.

Open Print Workshop – Cutting, Rolling, Stamping, Printing, and Leaving Traces of Color

Here, everything revolves around color, paper, and hand printing. Together in the print workshop, we’ll explore what kinds of things we can print using everyday materials. We’ll make our own simple printing blocks and apply various techniques to paper. 

This results in unique works of art, such as colorful patterns and stamped images.

The open print workshop is a space for artistic experimentation where everyone is invited to join in! So… come on in!

Led by: Nina Rauber. Cell: 0176/96609035

Organizer contact: Noah Reichert. Cell: 0177 4418254 - Email: n.reichertstadtmuseum-wiesbadende

The tenth anniversary of sam at the Marktkeller is an opportunity to reflect on the history of the city museum and its significance for Wiesbaden. Sabine Philipp takes the audience on a journey through the past and present of the sam, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the museum’s operations, and sparks curiosity about all that the sam still has to offer. She opens our eyes to exciting options for the museum’s future development in a new building at a new location outside the historic Marktkeller.

Botany Printing with Lina Becker

Nature has always been a great source of inspiration for people. We’ll use various printing techniques to capture Wiesbaden’s biotopes on paper, creating an image together with the plants.

It’s about the process, not the result. We want to observe closely, combine different shapes, colors, and textures, and have fun together.

Come by and join us!

Write Like the Romans? 

When the Roman legions withdrew from Wiesbaden about 1,400 years ago, they left behind not only thermal baths and forts, but also their writing system and the alphabet we use today.

In the writing workshop hosted by sam—Stadtmuseum am Markt at the Gläsernes Museum in WerkRaum—we’ll use a calamus, ink, and papyrus to experience what it was like to work in a Roman writing room. How were papyrus, parchment, and wax tablets used? What were pumice and quills used for? What did Roman script look like, and how did the Latin alphabet differ from ours?

Join us at the Roman writing desk and try your hand at writing with ink, reed, quill, and rush. During the workshop, we’ll create our own papyrus bookmark to take home.

Free admission—Suitable for children ages 6 and up—no registration required

Led by Noah Reichert, Museum Education, sam – Stadtmuseum am Markt 

Joana Brauhardt, the 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. 

“Repaircafé on Tour” is stopping at WerkRaum Wiesbaden! Let’s fix things together instead of throwing them away—just bring along your favorite broken items. In a relaxed atmosphere, volunteers will help you tinker, repair, and live sustainably.

Wiesbaden boasts an above-average variety of urban structures: the spa city of Wiesbaden is at once an ancient European city, a garden city, a riverside city, a military base, a modern city, an industrial city, a regional city—and a city of the future.

Camillo Huber-Braun, Director of the City Planning Office, and Martin Horsten, City Conservator and Director of the Municipal Historic Preservation Authority, will discuss the various aspects of Wiesbaden. Look forward to a multifaceted overview and an interesting evening!

An event organized by the City Planning Office and the Building Inspection Department/Lower Historic Preservation Authority

The event is open to anyone who would like to learn about the historical background and structure of the city of Wiesbaden and join us in looking toward the future.

How about a nice get-together after work?

Then come join us on Wednesday, August 12, for our 4th inclusive after-work get-together for women at Werkraum. 

As always, women with and without disabilities who’d like to meet, chat, share ideas, and view interesting exhibitions together are invited.

At the Werkraum, we’ll have the opportunity to attend an insightful lecture by Dr. Tanja Bernsau on the topic “Collected Passion: Women as Patrons of the Arts.”

Behind many major art collections, museums, and artists’ careers were women whose influence was long underestimated. They financed art, saved works, built collections, established networks—and wrote cultural history, often behind the scenes. In her lecture, art historian Dr. Tanja Bernsau will shine a spotlight on some of these female art patrons.

Participation (including a beverage, light refreshments, admission, and the lecture) is free of charge. The event is being held in cooperation with the Women’s Affairs Office of the State Capital of Wiesbaden.

The number of seats is limited to 40 women. Registration is required.

Anyone interested in attending should please register with the Women’s Representative of the Wiesbaden District Association by email at anja.beisiegelvdkde or by phone at 06124 726 1018.

The series will continue on October 29 at the Hessian State Museum

The Life and Death of Duchess Pauline of Nassau (1810–1856)

Duchess Pauline of Nassau, who by birth was entitled to the title “Royal Highness” and thus ranked higher than her husband in the order of precedence, left a variety of traces in the city. The Paulinen-Stift bears her name, as does Paulinenstraße. Her residence, the Paulinenschlösschen—named after her—no longer exists today. But what exactly do we know about this historical figure? What family did she come from, and what were her living conditions like? And why did she die at the age of only 46? On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of her death, we will commemorate Pauline.

Rethinking Shopping

FutureThinking Workshop on the Future of Shopping

Bargain bins, storefront windows, fitting rooms, checkout counters: Brick-and-mortar retail has its established order. But with the upheaval in the retail industry, even this order is being called into question. What might the shopping experience of the future look like? And can digital technology be used to revitalize the analog shopping experience?

In this workshop, we’ll take a close look at the classic zones of a brick-and-mortar store: Each station represents a question—about product presentation, sales tactics, the checkout process, and the moments before and after a purchase. What are we missing? What do we definitely not want to bring back? And what needs to be reimagined?

We are all consumers—and that is precisely the starting point. The workshop thrives on your perspectives and experiences, whether you come from the retail sector, work in urban planning, study design, or simply want to contribute your ideas.

The results will be tangible: Each group will create a mood board on a customized shopping bag—an object that will then be on display in the exhibition.

The workshop will be led by Judith Block, a futurist and product designer at The Future:Project.

● Workshop leader: Judith Block, The Future:Project, in collaboration with Janine Seitz, expert on consumer culture

● Participation is free; donations are welcome

● Register at infokonsummuseumde or by phone at 0176-99806148 (minimum 12, maximum 30 participants)

Guided tour with Yvonne Kirchdorfer; meet at WerkRaum Wiesbaden

WItopia: An evolving exhibition conceived and curated by WeltWandelWerkstatt

We create, invent, and dream up the world, just the way we like it.

Images, stories, and ideas for the future conceived, drawn, painted, imagined, observed, and documented by children in Wiesbaden as part of the School Year of Sustainability. The children explored the question: If you could decide for yourselves, what would your little corner of Wiesbaden look like in the future?

Program

The results from last year are on display and being presented. But it doesn’t stop there! Visitors—young and old—will be stimulated, inspired, motivated, and encouraged through questions, interactive exhibits, discussions, hands-on activities, and games to put their own stories, visions of the future, and ideas for the future down on paper and help the exhibition grow.

Dates: 

Between Wilhelmstraße and Westend, the Kurhaus and the vacant SportScheck building, Walhalla and the Platz der Deutschen Einheit—from the need for safety and an equitable transportation policy to affordable housing and heavy rainfall: Hesse’s state capital faces many challenges. Following the success of the documentary theater evening “Our Legacy: Tax Me If You Can,” Helge Schmidt and his team are turning their attention to Wiesbaden itself in their new research project and asking the questions: Who owns the city? How do we want to live together? What could Wiesbaden look like as a just and forward-looking city? Drawing on interviews that explore current urban policy discourses, the project aims to investigate what connects us and our audience: the very place where this theater stands.

City history is the sum of all the stories that have taken place in the city’s various locations. As part of this month’s theme, “City History/Stories,” Alexander Pfeiffer reads stories from Wiesbaden that either actually happened or could have happened.

Pfeiffer’s latest novel, “Terrorballade,” which explores Wiesbaden’s legacy of the RAF, examines the city through the lens of contemporary history. The essay “Sinnieren im Kaffeetakt” offers a caffeine-fueled intellectual stroll through our city center. And even one or two poems from the collection “Leuchtfeuer” cannot hide the fact that they have their origins in the streets of Hesse’s state capital.     

Alexander Pfeiffer was born in Wiesbaden in 1971. He is a writer, host, director of writing workshops, and boxing coach.