Dessau Bauhaus Day Planner: Your Day Trip from Berlin on One Timeline
Plan a Dessau day trip from Berlin on one timeline. Pick the date and the train: the planner shows which Bauhaus sites are open, places the guided tours, walks you from the station and finds your train home. Checked on 17 October 2026.
Mondays shut the museum all year and every site from November to February. English tours run only on Fridays from March to October.
Whether a Dessau day trip from Berlin shows you all three Bauhaus sites depends on the date and the train. This planner checks both.
What the planner shows
A Dessau day trip from Berlin works or fails on the weekday, the season and the train. The calendar marks every date until the end of February: dark green when the Bauhaus Building, the Masters' Houses and the Bauhaus Museum are all open, light green on summer Mondays when the museum is shut, hatched when everything is closed, and a yellow edge on the Fridays with English tours. Pick a date and a train, and the timeline lays out the opening hours, the guided tours, your walks from the station and your train home.
How to use it
Tap a date in the calendar. From November to February every Monday is closed, and the sites shut from 24 to 26 December and on 31 December and 1 January.
Pick your train from Berlin Hauptbahnhof. Until 20 November the route is the RE3 to Lutherstadt Wittenberg and the RB51 to Dessau; from 21 November the RE7 runs again from Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Switch off any site you want to skip, or the guided tour. The plan starts west of the station at the Bauhaus Building and ends at the museum in the centre.
Where the figures come from
Opening hours, tours, prices and the holiday closures come from the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (bauhaus-dessau.de). Trains come from the VBB journey planner, and the rail works and the Stadtbahn closure from VBB announcements. Walking times are measured on OpenStreetMap; visit lengths are my own planning times. Checked on 17 October 2026; check the new timetable after 13 December.