About the location
Location Sorbisches Museum / Serbski muzej, Bautzen / Budyšin
Address Ortenburg 3, 02625 Bautzen
In the middle of the picturesque old town of Budyšin - Bautzen, on the site of Ortenburg Castle high above the Spree River, the Salt House of the town of Bautzen, built in 1782, today's Sorbian Museum. From 1835 to 1907, the festival hall served as a jury courtroom for the Royal Saxon Court of Appeal. It is decorated with paintings of Sorbian scientists and writers. Under the gallery, a triptych from 1930 by the Slovenian artist Ante Trstenjak gathers important thinkers and cultural figures of the Sorbian cultural movement. In the gallery, a library invites visitors to linger and browse through the numerous books. The festival hall with a literary exhibition is a worthy setting for the literature of the Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, although the unhoused heroines of her stories are not at home under the glitter of crystal chandeliers.