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Travel occasions and highlights

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Plan your next music tour, festive trip or group tour to the themes of reformation, art and railway romance...

...There are so many travel occasions to come to Germany in the next few years! Here you can get an overview of different events and highlights. We are happy to help you implementing your travel wishes to Dresden, Leipzig, Weimar or other cities - just contact us!

Anniversaries and events as travel occasions in the next years

What travel occasions can you expect in the coming years? Many events that had to be cancelled due to the Corona Crisis are annual events, so that these will be a perfect travel occasion also for the next year. In addition, we can already present you the following upcoming highlight especially for music lovers:

Musical Highlights 2026

© Franz Koshorst

150th anniversary of “The Ring of the Nibelung”

Bayreuth, 2026
© Franz Koshorst

Music Tour Wagner

Bach statue in the Bach Museum Leipzig

100 Years of Bach Festival Münster

Münster, 2026

Music tour Bach

Magdeburg with bridge and cathedral © DZT, Francesco Carovillano

27th Magdeburg
Telemann Festival

Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
13/03-22/03/2026
© DZT, Francesco Carovillano

View of Salzburg

Salzburg Easter Festival – Ring of the Nibelung

Salzburg, Austria
27/03-06/04/2026
© Salzburg Tourismus GmbH

Leipzig Opera © Kirsten Nijhof

Albert Lortzing Festival “Lortzing26” Leipzig Opera

Leipzig, Saxony
24/04-03/05/2026
© Kirsten Nijhof

Music Tour Leipzig

Hamburg harbour © dietwalther, AdobeStock

International Music Festival Hamburg

Hamburg
01/05-03/06/2026
© dietwalther AdobeStock 270167527

Tour of the year 2026: Hanseatic Cities

Holstentor in Lübeck

Brahms-Festival

Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein
02/05-10/05/2026
© LTM, Olaf Malzahn

Tour of the year 2026: Hanseatic Cities

Dresden Music Festival

Dresden, Saxony
15/05-14/06/2026

Music Tour Dresden

Würzburg Residence

Mozart Festival Würzburg

Würzburg, Bavaria
29/05-28/06/2026

Lübeck aus der Luft mit Holstentor © LTM, Olaf Malzahn

Hansekulturfestival

Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein
05/06-07/06/2026
© LTM, Olaf Malzahn

Tour of the year 2026: Hanseatic Cities

House of Handel in Halle © Thomas Ziegler, Stadt Halle, Saale

Handel Festival Halle

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
05/06-14/06/2026
© Thomas Ziegler, Stadt Halle-Saale

Music tour Leipzig

Bachdenkmal vor Thomaskirche in Leipzig

Bach Festival Leipzig

Leipzig, Saxony
12/06-21/06/2026

Music Tour Bach

Exhibitions and und Anniversaries 2026

Bauhaus Dessau

100th anniversary of the founding of Bauhaus Dessau

Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt
09/2025-12/2026

Cultural tour Bauhaus

Museum Ludwig and Cologne Cathedral © Museum Ludwig, Photo AR Thomas Riehle

50 Years of Museum Ludwig

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
2026
© Museum Ludwig, Photo AR Thomas Riehle

Art tour Cologne

Marktplatz in Bremen mit Rathaus und St. Petri Dom © WFB Bremen/Carina Tank

150 years: Paula Modersohn Becker

Worpswede & Bremen
2026 (08/02/2026)
© WFB Bremen/Carina Tank

Tour of the year 2026: Hanseatic Cities

Albertinum Dresden © Frank Exß (DML-BY)

Exhibition: Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch

Dresden, Saxony
08/02-17/05/2026
© Frank Exß (DML-BY)

City tour Dresden

Barberini Museum in Potsdam © DZT, Francesco Carovillano

Impressionism in Germany. Max Liebermann
and his time

Potsdam, Brandenburg
28/02-07/06/2026
© DZT, Francesco Carovillano

Kunstpalast Düsseldorf

The Scharf Collection: Monet – Cézanne – Matisse

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
12/03-16/08/2026
© Düsseldorf Tourismus GmbH, Simone Stammen

Art tour Cologne

Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna © WienTourismus, Christian Stermper

Canaletto & Bellotto

Vienna, Austria
24/03-06/09/2026
© WienTourismus, Christian Stermper

Hamburg Harbour © dietwalther, AdobeStock

"Flow of Paint = Flow of Life" Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch

Hamburg
27/03-23/08/2026
© dietwalther AdobeStock 270167527

Tour of the year 2026: Hanseatic Cities

Steam Trains in Dresden

18th Steam Engine Festival Dresden

Dresden, Saxony
10/04-12/04/2026

Steam Train Tours

250 years of Albertina Vienna

Vienna, Austria
04/07-01/09/2026
© WienTourismus, Christian Stermper

© Werbegemeinschaft Markgräferland GmbH

Open vineyard days along the Saxon Wine Trail

Saxony
29/08-30/08/2026
© Werbegemeinschaft Markgräferland GmbH

Saxon Wine Trail

Düsseldorf K 20 Art Collection

Franz Marc Exhibition

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
12/09/2026-24/01/2027
© Düsseldorf Tourismus GmbH, Simone Stammen

Art tour Cologne

Old Masters Picture Gallery © Frank Exß (DML-BY)

Correggio.
Movingly Human

Dresden, Saxony
19/09/2026-10/01/2027
© Frank Exß (DML-BY)

City tour Dresden

Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

Lovis Corinth.
Then came Berlin!

Berlin
09/10/2026-25/01/2027

City tour Berlin

Alte Nationalgalerie and Neues Museum Berlin © Francisco Anzola

Women of The Blue Rider

Wiesbaden, Hesse
22/10/2026-21/02/2027
© DZT, Francesco Carovillano

Barberini Museum in Potsdam © DZT, Francesco Carovillano

Networks of Impressionism: Artists, Dealers, Collectors

Potsdam, Brandenburg
07/11/2026-21/02/2027
© DZT, Francesco Carovillano

City tour Berlin

Musical Highlights 2027

Statue of Beethoven in Bonn

Beethoven Festival Leipzig on the 200th anniversary of his death

Leipzig, Saxony
09/05-23/05/2027
© IHoepping, Presseamt Bundesstadt Bonn

Music tour Beethoven

Statue of Beethoven in Bonn © Michael Sondermann, Bundesstadt Bonn

Beethoven Festival Bonn

Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
09/2027-10/2027
© Michael Sondermann, Bundesstadt Bonn

News: Beethoven Highlights 2027

Exhibitions and und Anniversaries 2027

Castle Church Wittenberg © DZT, Christof Herdt

Luther House
expected to reopen

Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt
expected in 2027
© DZT, Christof Herdt

Cultural Tour Luther

Pergamon Museum Berlin © Pierre Adenis, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, BPK

Partial reopening of the Pergamon Museum

Berlin
expected in 2027
© Pierre Adenis, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, BPK

City tour Berlin

Berlin Schloss Charlottenburg © DZT, Florian Trykowski

Exhibition "Picasso and his Time"

Berlin
2027

City tour Berlin

Old Masters Picture Gallery Dresden © Frank Exß (DML-BY)

450th anniversary of
Peter Paul Rubens

Special exhibitions in Dresden, Saxony & Antwerp, Netherlands
2027
© Frank Exß (DML-BY)

City tour Dresden

Hamburg Harbour © AdobeStock, dietwalther

This is the Modern World – Breakthroughs in Art, 1900-1960

Hamburg
2027
© AdobeStock, dietwalther

Art tour Hanseatic Cities

Burgplatz Leipzig

Wolfgang Mattheuer – Inside, Outside and Me

Leipzig, Saxony
08/04-22/08/2027

City tour Leipzig

Magdeburg with Hubbrücke and Cathedral © DZT, Francesco Carovillano

Festival of Modernism & reopening Stadthalle

Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
01/05-31/10/2027
© DZT, Francesco Carovillano