The Saxon Wine Museum (Berg und Lusthaus from 1650) is a public, cultural, scientifically managed institution under the auspices of the Hoflößnitz Foundation. It collects, preserves, researches and presents evidence of the history of Saxon viticulture from its beginnings to the present day.
The museum rooms in the Lust- und Berghaus and the Kavalierhaus of the Hoflößnitz as well as the surrounding vineyards are places of education and mediation for all age groups.
The history of the museum dates back to 1912, when the Hoflößnitz Association, which was founded specifically for this purpose, acquired the castle property, which had been privatized in 1889, and began renovating the buildings and building up a collection on the history of viticulture. After a delay due to the war, the Lust- und Berghaus opened its doors at Whitsun 1924 as a local history museum for the municipality of Oberlößnitz. The plan to expand the local history museum into a town museum, which had been pursued since the mid-1930s following the incorporation of Oberlößnitz into Radebeul, was thwarted by the Second World War. In 1967, the Dresden District Council decided to turn the building into the Elbe Valley Wine Museum. The new concept has been gradually implemented since the early 1980s as part of the comprehensive renovation of the facility, which began in 1977.
