The famous semi-circular department store building in Chemnitz’s Brückenstraße, a work by the important architect Erich Mendelsohn, designed in 1927 and opened three years later, is the State Museum of Archaeology in Chemnitz – smac for short.

smac is the only museum in Saxony where you can experience 300,000 years of human history.

At the same time, it is the showcase of the Saxon State Office for Archaeology, with its Saxon Archaeological Archive.

Over 6000 exhibits over three floors shed light on the history of humanity from the beginnings of the Stone Age through to the early Industrial Era.