07.08.2021 - 08.08.2021
A highlight that attracts thousands of visitors to Posterstein is the medieval spectacle with traders, jugglers and knight tournaments every year at Pentecost. Around the castle, artisans, knights and traveling people set up their tents for three days and entertain the curious with their performances.
29.11.2020 - 10.01.2021
Ox, donkey, sheep and llama: this online Christmas crib exhibition puts its focus on the countless animal figures that belong to the cribs in our collection.
04.10.2020 - 31.12.2021
This family exhibition puts its focus on the everyday life in a medieval castle. Visitors discover the castle and its history interactively.
02.08.2020 - 15.11.2020
The renowned artist Peter Zaumseil from Elsterberg in the Vogtland region turns 65. The well-known ceramist Ludwig Laser from Berga celebrates his 60th. Together they give an extensive insight into their work at Posterstein Castle. The art exhibition shows painting, woodcuts and graphics, sculptures and ceramics.
23.02.2020 - 19.07.2020
The photographer Karlheinz Rothenberger from Landshut captured landscapes shaped by the DDR mining company WISMUT in impressive photographs. Thirty years after the end of uranium mining in Ronneburg, the photo exhibition shows the former opencast mining sites, recultivation through BUGA 2007 to the present day situation.
01.12.2019 - 19.01.2020
Every year in Advent, the Museum Burg Posterstein shows its traditional Christmas crib exhibition in the atmospheric rooms of the Posterstein Castle.
This year’s exhibition put the focus particularly on cribs from South America and other distant regions. Of course, native cribs will also be on display.
01.09.2019 - 17.11.2019
Museum Burg Posterstein will commemorate the illustrator Christian Anton Goering (1836-1905). Although he was the son of a craftsman he succeeded in a career as an explorer, painter and animal preparator. Like Alexander von Humboldt before he went on two expeditions to South America (1856 and 1866) and conducted botanical and geographic studies.
19.05.2019 - 18.08.2019
The exhibition shows Art objects made of wax and dust, collected in Posterstein Castle, by the German artist Wolfgang Stöcker from Cologne. Dust reflects transience, human traces in history, preservation or loss of the past, new life for hidden remains – a metaphor for the hard labour of archivists, librarians and museum professionals as well!
15.12.2018
“Advent in the Salon” offers space for regional crafts and tasty snacks at Christmas time. With treats from the kitchen and bakery, a live radio play for children and a musical reading for the whole family, we invite you to a cozy afternoon in Advent.
02.12.2018 - 06.01.2019
Every year in Christmas time Posterstein castle shows a part of its Christmas crib collection. Further information on the crib collection.
23.09.2018 - 11.11.2018
The exhibition “#SalonEurope: analog meets digital” is designed as a laboratory. Based on the historic salon culture around 1800, the exhibition creates a relation to the present time and current political situation.
17.06.2018 - 09.09.2018
Four artists from Germany, France and Poland follow the tradition of the historical salon of the Duchess Anna Dorothea of Courland and set up a joint art project.
19.05.2018 - 21.05.2018
A highlight, that attracts thousands of visitors, is the Middle Age Spectacle at Whitsun every year with dealers, travelling entertainers and knight fights.
03.12.2017 - 07.01.2018
Every year in Christmas time Posterstein castle shows a part of its Christmas crib collection. Further information on the crib collection.
Every year in Christmas time Posterstein castle shows a part of its Christmas crib collection.
01.10.2017 - 31.12.2019
How heavy is a chain shirt? How did children live in the Middle Ages? What were princesses around 1800 aloud to do? Families, school classes and children are among the most important visitors to Posterstein Castle.
03.09.2017 - 05.11.2017
The artist Anthony Lowe, living in Zürchau near Altenburg, is known for his colorful city portraits. He is designing the exhibition “Influencing ways of seeing” specifically for Museum Burg Posterstein. The exhibition wants to overcome common angles of view, inviting us to a change of perspective.
16.08.2017
Jazz in the castle’s yard with the band “Centerpiece Jazz” from Hickory, North Carolina, USA – a concert linked to this year’s Altenburger Musikfestival.
03.06.2017 - 05.06.2017
A highlight, that attracts thousands of visitors, is the Middle Age Spectacle at Whitsun every year with dealers, travelling entertainers and knight fights.
21.05.2017
Museums are full of traces of our past. The motto of the International Museum Day 2017 is “Search for Traces. Courage for Responsibility!” The Museum Burg Posterstein will again participate with special events at the museum day.
14.05.2017 - 20.08.2017
In the historical setting of Posterstein Castle we show the unusual ceramic art of Angelika Kühn from Hintzenstern from Kühdorf near Greiz. The ceramist celebrates the 45th anniversary of her workshop in 2017. She produces her objects and reliefs without a traditional pottery disc. In her own technique, she combines her objects from large, rolled plates.
12.02.2017 - 01.05.2017
The Thuringian photographer Ulrich Fischer has been working with the art of capturing exceptional moments in photographs for more than 40 years. He lives and works freelance in Grümpen, Landkreis Sonneberg.
27.11.2016 - 08.01.2017
Every year in Christmas time Posterstein castle shows a part of its Christmas crib collection.
26.06.2016 - 31.10.2016
In connection to the Thuringian state exhibition on the Ernestiner family the museum Posterstein Castle shows an exhibition on Hans Wilhelm von Thümmel, minister of Saxony, Gotha and Altenburg, and a regular guest in the salon of the Duchess of Courland in Löbichau.
22.05.2016
Mit einem bunten Programm für KInder und Erwachsene beteiligt sich das Museum Burg Posterstein auch in diesem Jahr am Internationalen Museumstag.
06.03.2016 - 05.06.2016
The exhibition shows paintings of farmers and farms and gives and overview of the farmer’s culture in the Altenburg region of the 19th century.
12.12.2015
Wir laden Sie ein, bei Tee und Glühwein über skandinavische Weihnachtsbräuche zu plaudern, die Weihnachtsausstellung anzusehen und gemeinsam dänische Flechtherzen und „kræmmerhuse“, eine Art kleine Zuckertüten für den Tannenbaum, zu basteln. Interessierte aller Altersklassen sind herzlich willkommen!
29.11.2015 - 24.01.2016
Every year in Christmas time the museum shows parts of its Christmas crib collection. This year a special focus is on Scandinavian cribs and Christmas customs.
04.07.2015
Der schöne Ort, eine Veranstaltungsreihe der Evangelischen Erwachsenenbildung in Thüringen, macht Station in Posterstein.
10.05.2015
Boogie Woogie and Blues with Boogielicious.
08.03.2015 - 03.05.2015
Cartoon & Comic by Christian Habicht
30.11.2014 - 11.01.2015
Every year in Christmas time Posterstein castle shows a part of its Christmas crib collection.
17.08.2014 - 16.11.2014
A culinary speciality from Schmölln, East Thuringia, on international stage – Museum Posterstein Castle and the Leipzig-based illustrator Susann Hesselbarth invite more than 40 designers and illustrators to work with the „Mutz“.
09.08.2014
Vicki Vomit with his solo program
27.07.2014
Soul and funk with Coloured Vibes
29.06.2014
Paul Kühn (violin) – Roger Witte (guitar) – Rene Bock (bass) – Three members of “Brogues” unplugged.
07.06.2014 - 09.06.2014
Every year at Whitsun knights, medieval merchants, jugglers and players meet around Posterstein Castle.
18.05.2014 - 17.07.2014
The well-respected artist from Altenburg arranges the graphics in his Posterstein exhibition himself.
18.05.2014
We take part in the International Museum’s Day 2014 (hashtag to follow on social media: #IMT14). „Museum collections make connections“ is the slogan for 2014.
11.05.2014
Renaissance and baroque music played on historical instruments. Further information: http://www.fleischlinger.cz/
02.03.2014 - 04.05.2014
Photography by Jörg Neumerkel, Altenburg
Opening: March 2nd, 3 pm, with guitar blues by Josa
01.12.2013 - 05.01.2014
Full of atmosphere: Traditional Christmas crib exhibition. More information about the collection.
16.06.2013
The musician Dirk Zöllner reads from his auto biography about his life as a Rock’n’Roll musician before and after the fall of the wall.
06.06.2013 - 18.08.2013
We show paintings, graphics & wood sculptures by Thomas Heinicke.