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Gießen District

Lahntal
Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Wetzlar

Ernst Leitz Museum & Leica World

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Gießen District

Lahntal
Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Wetzlar

Ernst Leitz Museum & Leica World

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Ernst Leitz Museum & Leica World

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    Location: Wetzlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Lahntal, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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    January 21, 2023

    Well-made photography museum, the current €11 entry is worth it. Information about the changing exhibitions is available at leica-welt.com/ernst-leitz-museum/ausstellungen

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      November 19, 2021

      In 2012 - 2014 the ensemble of production and administration buildings and a museum (Ernst Leitz Museum / Museum for Photography and Photo Technology) was built.

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        February 14, 2023

        Here you can get a taste of the success story of Ernst Leitz. A must for every photo fan.

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          March 12, 2023

          As important as the topic may be for Wetzlar and as interesting as the museum is, here you can see how urban planning can go wrong. The site is sealed down to the last centimetre. Not a tree, not a blade of grass, somehow inhospitable.

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            March 18, 2023

            What a huge but amazing building

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              February 19, 2023

              A wonderful architecturally designed building with the history of Leica, technical explanation of lenses, lights and photography, old cameras and accessories and photos of artists.

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                April 25, 2025

                Changing exhibitions, interactive stations on the upper floor, and plenty of information about photography and the history of Leica/Leitz.

                The €11 entrance fee is reasonable for what's on offer.

                Parking is free.

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                  September 7, 2021

                  A nice place to linger along the route

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                    October 21, 2023

                    The documentary “Escape from the Nazis – How the Leica manufacturer saved Jews”, which can be seen in the ZDF media library, looks at a historical and at the same time deeply human-humanitarian aspect of the Leitz works and, above all, their owner family, Ernst Leitz II. during the time of the Nazi injustice regime. This link takes you to the film article:
                    zdf.de/documentation/zdfinfo-doku/wandel-vor-den-nazis--wie-der-leica-fabrikant-juden-rettete-100.html

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                      Location: Wetzlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Lahntal, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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