Former Lichtdruck-Werkstatt-Museum, Cultural heritage museum in Dresden, Germany

The former Lichtdruck-Werkstatt-Museum occupies part of the Druckhaus Dresden on Bärensteiner Straße in the Gruna district. Its collection centres on four preserved historical light-printing presses, which once ran commercially, alongside original prints and documents of letterpress, lithography, intaglio and offset printing.

The Lichtdruckanstalt Arthur Kolbe, a Dresden subsidiary of Kunstanstalten May, produced light prints from 1925; under the GDR it belonged to VEB Grafischer Großbetrieb Völkerfreundschaft, and its prints served as state gifts. After the 1993 bankruptcy, printer Karl Nolle bought the eight machines for 1 DM, moved four to the Druckhaus Dresden on Bärensteiner Straße, and reopened the workshop as a museum in March 1994.

The workshop's light prints served as state gifts during GDR state visits, produced under the VEB Grafischer Großbetrieb Völkerfreundschaft. The process reproduced photographs, manuscripts and graphics in halftone, a niche it kept after offset printing took over. The firm had produced light prints in Dresden since 1925, when the Lichtdruckanstalt Arthur Kolbe operated as a subsidiary of the Kunstanstalten May on Kipsdorfer Straße in Striesen.

The museum is located on Bärensteiner Strasse in the Gruna district and is currently closed for extensive renovations. Visitors should check the current status before planning a visit, as no fixed reopening date has been set.

The workshop's machines were bought for a symbolic 1 DM by printer Karl Nolle, who had settled in Dresden around 1990; four of the eight were saved and moved to Bärensteiner Strasse. In 2001 the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege declared the workshop a technical monument, and it was closed a few years later.