A Day for Duchess Anna Amalia | Exhibition opening: Make it public! The ABCs of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek

Musical opening of the new exhibition at the Study Center with Daniel Heide

On April 30, 2026, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar invites you to a special opening event dedicated to Duchess Anna Amalia. With the reopening of the Wittumspalais at Theaterplatz and the special exhibition Make it public! The ABCs of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek at the Study Center, two places are brought into focus where the Duchess shaped the cultural and intellectual life of Weimar.

While the Wittumspalais offers insights into Anna Amalia’s extraordinary life and her court as a cultural meeting place, the exhibition at the Study Center shows how a ducal collection developed into an institution that fosters communication, diversity of perspectives, and, not least, knowledge.

Celebrate with us the launch of the exhibition parcours Make it public! The ABCs of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek at the Study Center. Accompanied musically by pianist Daniel Heide, you are warmly invited from 6 pm to explore the library as a public space for the exchange of knowledge and to gain insights into its work, collections, and newly designed public spaces.

Alphabetical systems of knowledge are functional, but in the selection of terms they create a world of their own, with its images and stories: from Anna Amalia and “Aschebuch” to card index and access. Digital public space and digital collections, Goethe and globalization, original and preservation of originals, provenance and participation, knowledge and knowledge forum: everything is library—open to the challenges of the present.

Program

April 30 | from 6 pm | Study Center
Dr. Reinhard Laube, Director of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
Dr. Claudia Streim, Curator of the Exhibition
Moderation and Music: Daniel Heide

The inclusive library café Samocca will be open until 8 pm on this day and will offer a selection of food and refreshments for the occasion.