Welcome to Thuringia!

The region's unique tourist attractions, dramatic scenery, excellent cuisine and friendly hospitality are guaranteed to provide you with the ideal German holiday. It is difficult to find another region in Germany that offers so many impressive cultural venues in such a compact area as Thuringia. 

The cities and towns of Thuringia are filled with an array of cultural sights and will delight visitors with their well preserved centres, architectural jewels and exciting events. If one plans to travel on the traces of famous personalities like the composer Bach or the reformer Luther or if you look for UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Thuringia is your perfect travel destination!

The region also offers amazing landscapes and an abundance of outdoor activities, such as hiking, cycling, skiing, canoeing and much more.  Here, traditional art also lives on. The region is world renowned for glass blowing, fine porcelain, children's toys and traditional Christmas decorations.

Be welcomed and discover for yourself!

Thuringia celebrates the reinvention of porcelain in 2010

Without any connection to Johann Friedrich Böttger in Meissen, porcelain was also successfully produced for the first time in Thuringia in 1760. Then as now, Thuringian porcelain was much sought after by collectors all over the world. 16 museums have got together to celebrate this 250th anniversary. From April to October 2010, they will be exhibiting their major collections of Thuringian porcelain. Porcelain Manufactures i.e. Kahla Porzellan GmbH offer work visits, guided tours and manufactory sales all year round.

Exhibitions 18th April – 31st October 2010 (selection)

• Treasures from the Porcelain Collection, Town Castle, Eisenach
• White Gold in Erfurt, Anger Museum, Erfurt
• A joy to see and a pleasure to eat – historic and modern – creative!, Museum Leuchtenburg, Kahla
• Modellers at the Volkstedt Porcelain Factory from 1900 to 1945, Heidecksburg Thuringian State Museum, Rudolstadt

Further exhibitions

• 28th March - 5th September 2010 "An awful lot of cups... - Gotha porcelain in the 19th century", Friedenstein Castle Gotha
• 16th April - 1st August 2010 "The Porcelain Manufactory Burgau a.d. Saale Ferdinand Selle - products from Art Nouveau to Art Deco", Town Museum Jena
• 17th April - 31st October 2010 "Ilmenau Porcelain and Thuringian spirit of enterprise", Ilmenau
• 1st May - 4th July 2010 "Weimar Porcelain", Weimar Town Museum