Art Museums in Germany

The Alte Pinakothek is a museum that is part of the Munich Kunstareal in Munich, with paintings by Renaissance and Baroque artists in particular. Construction began in 1826 and the building was finished in 1836, making it the then largest museum building in the world. The museum holds a couple of th

The Old Masters Painting Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister) is a musuem in Dresden that holds a collection of paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries. The collection contains over 750 paintings, including old masterpieces from the Italian Renaissance and Baroque, but also works by the Flemi

The Städel Museum (Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie) is a museum in Frankfurt with one of the most important art collections in Germany. The museum holds around 2,700 paintings of which 600 are on display in the museum, a collection of graphic work (100,000 drawings and graphics) and

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum in Hamburg and is one of the largest museums in Germany. The Kunsthalle covers seven centuries of European art, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The museum is divided into four main sections: the Gallery of Old Masters, the Gallery of 19th-century A

Museum Ludwig is a modern art museum in Cologne. The museum holds and exhibits a collection of modern art that includes works from Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealism. The Ludwig Museum essentially incorporates the Sammlung Haubrich, a collection by lawyer Josef Haubrich of art from 1914 to 1939. Today

The Neue Pinakothek is a museum of painting and sculpture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which is part of the Kunstareal München in Munich. The museum. The Neue Pinakothek in Munich shows a selection of 400 works from the total collection of 3000 paintings and 300 sculptures. The collec

The Wallraf–Richartz Museum is an art gallery with a collection of fine art from the medieval period to the early 20th century. The museum includes a Gothic collection, a Renaissance collection, a Baroque collection and an Impressionist collection. Highlights of the permanent exhibition include artw

The Municipal Gallery in Lenbach House is a museum in Munich that is housed in the former villa of the German painter Franz von Lenbach, built between 1887 and 1891. The museum primarily displays work by painters that worked in Munich in the 18th and 19th centuries. The paintings of the Münchner Sch

The Pinakothek der Moderne is a museum in Munich that is part of the Kunstareal Munich. The Pinakothek der Moderne accommodates four different museums, namely: Sammlung für Moderne Kunst (with all modern art movements with their most important representatives), Die Neue Sammlung (the history and dev

The James Simon Gallery is a visitor center and art gallery situated in a central location on Museum Island in Berlin, Germany. It is nestled between the reconstructed Neues Museum and the Kupfergraben arm of the Spree river. This strategic location makes it easily accessible and a convenient starting point for exploring the rich cultural heritage of Museum Island.

The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (State Gallery) is an art museum in Stuttgart in Germany that exhibits painting from the end of the Middle Ages as well as sculptures from the 19th century and an extensive graphic collection. The collection of the Staatsgalerie contains around 5,000 paintings and sculptu

Built in 1904, the Bode Museum is housed in a historical building and holds collections of ancient art, items from the Byzantine and Gothic eras and the world's largest numismatic collection. After being known as the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum up until 1956, the museum was renamed after its curator -

Museum Folkwang is an art museum in Essen with an art collection with 19th- and 20th-century art. The collection of the museum contains works of impressionism, expressionism, surrealism and other styles of modern art. In addition, Museum Folkwang holds objects of the arts and crafts, a graphic and a

Situated in a converted air-raid shelter, Sammlung Boros is a private collection that contains more than 500 works of contemporary art - including pieces by Damian Hirst. The bunker can be accessed only in small groups with a guide - the visit has to be booked in advance.

The exhibition venue for photography and visual media shows works by renowned artists, promotes emerging talent and accompanies children, youths and adults on their journeys of discovery through our visual culture.

The Galerie Neue Meister (New Masters Gallery) is a modern art museum in Dresden that is housed in the Albertinum that exhibits around 300 paintings from the 19th century until today. The collection of the museum contains around 3,000 pieces and includes works from Otto Dix, Edgar Degas, Vincent van

The Berlin Film Museum or Museum of Film and Television Berlin is one of the six film museums in Germany. The entire history of German film is shown in the museum from the 18th century to the present. Furthermore, German actress Marlene Dietrich occupies a special place in the museum and it features

With more than 450 original exhibits, Dali - The Exhibition at Potsdamer Platz offers an insight into Dalí’s oeuvre and into the virtuosity and mastership in almost every technique. The museum features an overview of his graphic works, but also shows work portfolios, illustrated books, sculptures, m

The Martin-Gropius-Bau, previously used as a museum for applied art, is an exhibition building and art hall in Berlin. The building is intended for large exhibitions with a temporary character, but also the presentation of archaeological collections, linking these to current issues and discourses. U

The Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart is a museum of contemporary art in Berlin that is located in a former railway station called the Hamburger Bahnhof. The Hamburger Bahnhof collection is part of the modern art collection of the Nationalgalerie. The collection includes works by Joseph Beuys

The Glyptothek Munich is a museum for ancient Greek and Roman statues, which is located in the Kunstareal Munich of the Bavarian capital Munich. The Glyptothek was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to a design by the neoclassical architect Leo von Klenze and opened to the public in 1830. Th

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is an exhibition hall located on the Römerberg in the Altstadt district of Frankfurt am Main. The Schirn Kunsthalle is among the most renowned in Europe and regularly organizes exhibitions with international museums. The Schirn Kunsthalle was designed by Architekturbü

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the art collection of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, in Düsseldorf. United by this institution are three different exhibition venues: the K20 at Grabbeplatz, the K21 in the Ständehaus, and the Schmela Haus. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Wes

The Goethe House is a writer's house museum in Frankfurt. The Goethe House was the residence of the Goethe family until 1795. When the house was bought by geologist Otto Volger in 1863, it got restored to the condition the Goethe family had left it in. The house was destroyed during World War II, bu

Designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, this building is one of the finest examples of the Neoclassical Architecture in Berlin. Being fully dedicated to classical antiquity, the Altes Museum houses several thousands of historically and culturally important artefacts. Its chronologically divided areas i

The Museum für Fotografie (The Photography Museum Berlin) is a museum in Berlin dedicated to photography. The museum is also home to the Helmut Newton Foundation photo collection, dedicated to the work of German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton. It has changing exhibitions of work by Newton. Th

The State Collection of Egyptian Art in Munich (Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst) is an archaeological museum in Munich that holds and exhibits the state collection of Ancient Egypt art with exhibitions both on the predynastic as well as the dynastic periods. The State Collection of Egyptian

The Kupferstichkabinett, also known as the Museum of Prints and Drawings, is situated in Berlin, Germany. It forms part of the Berlin State Museums and is located in the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz. This location is easily accessible and is a significant cultural hub in the city.

The Neue Nationalgalerie is the Berlin art museum of the twentieth century with an art collection from classical and modern to the art of the sixties. The museum is located at the Kulturforum. The museum building with its square shape was designed by the famous functionalist architect Ludwig Mies va

The Deichtorhallen is one of largest art centers for contemporary art and photography in Europe. The two historical buildings dating from the 1910s are iconic in style, with their open steel-and-glass structures. The museum organizes various exhibitions in both the Halle für Aktuelle Kunst and the H

The Kunstgewerbemuseum is the Museum of Applied Art of Berlin. The headquarters is part of the Kulturforum Berlin and is part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The museum shows the development of arts and crafts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present. All style periods are represented with

The Bucerius Kunst Forum is an international exhibition centre that is named after Gerd Bucerius, a German politician and journalist, one of the founding members of Die Zeit. The Bucerius Kunst Forum organizes three to four exhibitions per year, in cooperation with other museums and collections. The

The Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg Museum (Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg) in Berlin shows art from French romanticism to surrealism, housed in Stülerbau-Ost (Eastern Stüler Building). The collection includes paintings, graphics and sculptures from the Stiftung Sammlung Dieter Scharf zur Erinnerung an O

The Liebieghaus is a late 19th-century castle-like villa in Frankfurt that was built in 1896, in a palatial, Historicist style, as a retirement home for textile manufacturer Baron Heinrich von Liebieg. The Liebieghaus is home to a sculpture museum, the Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus. The museum hold

The Brandhorst Museum is a museum for modern and contemporary art in Munich. The modern art collection "Sammlung Brandhorst" is presented by Udo Brandhorst, the heir of the German Henkel group. In the museum building, with an exhibition area of 3200 m², a collection of works by classical modernists

The Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig (Museum der Bildenden Künste) is a museum that, with more than 10,000 m² of exhibition space, is one of the largest exhibition halls in Germany. The collection contains approximately 3,500 paintings, 1,000 sculptures and 60,000 graphics. It includes works from the

The Sprengel Museum Hannover is a modern art museum in the city of Hanover. The Sprengel Museum is housed in a building on the Maschsee, which was designed by architects Peter and Ursula Trint and Dieter Quast. It was named after the German chocolate manufacturer and art collector Bernhard Sprengel

The Berlin Art Library (Kunstbibliothek Berlin) is located on the Kulturforum in Berlin-Tiergarten and is one of Germany's leading institutions specializing in the literature of Art History. It holds around 400,000 volumes. It mainly acquires and researches scientific literature on the history of Eu

located in a former industrial hall, the Berlinische Galerie exhibits works from the Berliner Sezession, such as Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth and Lesser Ury, Eastern European Avant-garde, such as Naum Gabo and El Lissitzky, New Objectivity, such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Christian Schad and Hannah

The Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin (Museum of Prints and Drawings) is a prints museum. The collection of graphic works, drawings, engravings, etchings, watercolors, manuscripts, book illustrations and oil sketches, which is considered one of the four most important collections in the world, comprises

The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen that houses a collection of European paintings from the 14th century to the present day, sculptures from the 16th to 21st centuries and a New Media collection. Highlights in its collection include works by Claude Monet, Édouard Manet and Paul Cézanne,

The Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee is the summer house of Max Liebermann, who was a German painter and printmaker of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany. It is located directly at the shores of Lake Wannsee. Since 2006 the Liebermann Villa is accessi

The Erotic Art Museum is a place for international erotic art closely related to artists from Sankt Pauli.

The Kathe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin houses the biggest collection of the German artist Kathe Kollwitz. The building itself used to be a residential villa but got partially destroyed during WWII and reopened as the Kathe Kollwitz Museum in 1986. Kathe Kollwitz is one of the most influential artists i

The Kunstpalast Museum, also known as the Museum Kunst Palast is a museum in Düsseldorf. The museum is located on the site of an older museum from 1902 that was rebuilt twice. Paintings and sculptures from the period between the Middle Ages and the 21st century are exhibited in Museum Kunstpalast. I

The Museum Schnütgen (Schnutgen Museum) is a museum of Christian art in Cologne. The museum holds and exhibits objects mostly from the Middle Ages between the 11th and 16th centuries in the Rhineland. Some pieces date from the Baroque and the 19th century and also from other European countries as we

The Museum of Modern Art (Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, MMK) is a modern art museum in Frankfurt am Main. The building was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein and was nicknamed 'Tortenstück' (the cake tip). The basis of its modern art collection is the legacy of collector Karl Strö

The Brücke Museum is a museum in Berlin located in the area of Berlin-Dahlem, in the vicinity of the former workshop of the sculptor Arno Breker. The collection consists of contemporary art with works by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and others. The museum holds around 400 paintings and sculptures and sever

The Brohan Museum is a small museum in Berlin that is housed in a late-neoclassical building. The collection was compiled by Karl H. Bröhan, who collected works of art belonging to Art Nouveau and Art Deco. The artists of the Berlin Sezession movement in particular are well represented. The museum a

The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is a contemporary and modern art museum in Stuttgart that exhibits selected works from the city's collection from the 19th century to contemporary art. In addition, thematic or monographic special exhibitions are organized and presented. The collection includes the most imp

The Von der Heydt Museum is a museum in Wuppertal, housed in the former city hall of Elberfeld. The museum is named after the Von der Heydt family which were important patrons. The museum's permanent collection contains paintings and sculptures from the sixteenth century to the present, including wo

The Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Art, MAKK) is a museum of applied arts in Cologne in Germany. The museum holds and exhibits a collection that contains more that 100,000 objects of European applied art from the 10th century to the present that includes jewellery, porcelain, furnitu

Stuck Villa (Jugendstil Museum) is a villa in Munich designed and built by the painter Franz von Stuck for his personal use between 1897 and 1898. In 1968 it was transformed to house the Museum Villa Stuck dedicated to Art Nouveau. The interior presents some of the artist's paintings and retains the

The Hetjens - Deutsches Keramikmuseum is a museum of ceramic history in Düsseldorf. Because of the up to 8000 years old pieces that originate from all parts of the world in the museum's collection, it is considered the most universal institute of its kind. The permanent exhibition shows the world o

The Staatliche Antikensammlungen (National Collections of Ancient Objects, Museum of Antiquities) is a museum in Munich with antiquities from Greece, Etruria and Rome. The building called Ausstellungsgebäude which houses the museum collections was built at the behest of Ludwig I, inspired by a templ

Haus der Kunst (House of the Arts) is an exhibition building for contemporary art in Munich in Germany. The exhibition building was built between 1933 and 1937 in the Nazi-classical empire style, designed by Paul Ludwig Troost and became one of the examples of the National Socialist architecture. Th

The Neues Museum Nürnberg (NMN) is a museum for modern and contemporary art and design in Nuremberg that is housed in a building designed by the architect Volker Staab. The museum features an exhibition area of around 3000 square meter in which it exhibits contemporary art as well as art and design

The Käthe Kollwitz Museum is a museum in Cologne that is dedicated to Käthe Kollwitz, a German artist, who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. The Käthe-Kollwitz Museum in Cologne has the largest collection of works by the artist. The museum was established when the granddaughters of Kä

The Caricatura Museum (Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst) is a museum in Frankfurt for comic art. The museum has works by artists of the Neue Frankfurter Schule on display as well as works by contemporary artists in temporary exhibitions.

The Dresden City Museum (Stadtmuseum Dresden) is the central city and local history museum of the Saxon capital Dresden in Germany. The museum is housed in the Landhaus and is dedicated to the more than 800-year history of the city. The permanent exhibition of the Dresden City Museum addresses vario

The Filmmuseum Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Film Museum) is one of seven film museums in Germany. The exhibition rooms are located in the extension of the Hetjens Museum. The Düsseldorf Film Museum gives insights into the world of film - from its earliest beginnings to the present. In addition to technica

The Museum Five Continents is a museum in Munich with non-European artworks and objects of cultural value. The collection exhibited in the museum dates back in part to 1782, when the curiosities gathered by the Wittelsbachs were exhibited in the galleries of the Residenz. The current collection cont

The Museum chronicles the product culture of the 20th & 21st centuries, a culture marked by mass production & industrial manufacturing. At the core of our institution is the archive of the Deutsche Werkbund. Founded in 1907, this group of German artists, designers & manufacturers was one of the lead

The KW Institute for Contemporary Art is a contemporary art center in Berlin’s Mitte District that was founded in the early 1990s. It is a center for the introduction of recent developments in national and international contemporary culture. The museum has no permanent collections, only temporary on

The Goethe Museum Düsseldorf is one of the three prestigious Goethe museums in Germany, alongside the Goethe House in Frankfurt am Main and the Goethe National Museum in Weimar. The related institution includes the museum, the manuscript archive, the research library, the art collection and an event

The Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte or MKK (Museum of Art and Cultural History) is a municipal art museum in Dortmund. The Museum of Art and Art History in Dortmund is housed in the 1924 former Municipal Savings Bank, built by Hugo Steinbach. The collections of paintings, sculptures, furniture

The Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin is Germany's national exhibition center for modern non-European art. Art exhibitions, concerts, dance and theater performances and lectures on non-European art are held here. It was originally a conference hall, donated by the United States. The building was

The Märkisches Museum in Berlin presents a variety of objects on the culture and history of Berlin. The permanent exhibition „Here is Berlin!“ invites you to take a walk through Berlin's streets and neighborhoods, where visitors experience how Berlin has changed over the centuries. „Ask your city!“

The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf - officially Kunsthalle und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen - is ana rt hall located opposite the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 museum in Düsseldorf. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf does not have its own art collection, but has always been a space for temporary e

The Lehmbruck Museum (Stiftung-Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum – Zentrum Internationaler Skulptur) is a museum for modern art in Duisburg in Germany. The museum focuses on modern sculpture and was named after the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, who was born in Duisburg in 1881. The collection of the Lehmbruck

The Icon Museum of the City of Frankfurt displays sacred art of Orthodox Christianity, presenting the art and ritual of icons from the 15th to the 20th century. The museum is housed in the former refectory of the Deutschordenshaus and holds a collection of over 1,000 exhibits.

The Wilhelm Busch Museum (Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst Wilhelm Busch) is a museum in Hanover that features the world's largest collection of works by Busch, as well as contemporary comic art, illustrations and drawings. The museum is located in the Georgengarten in a palace known

The Weserburg is a modern art museum in Bremen, housed in an old factory building. It is one of the largest modern art museum spaces in Germany and does not hold a permanent collection but organises changing exhibition of private collections.

The Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum is an art museum in Bremen that is dedicated to German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism: Paula Modersohn-Becker. It is the first museum in the world devoted to a female artist. The museum holds and exhibits Modersohn-Becke

The East Wall Museum (Museum am Ostwall) is a museum of modern and contemporary art, located in the former Dortmunder U brewery on the Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse in the German city of Dortmund. The museum collection includes paintings, sculptures, objects and photographs and a collection of graphics of

The Museum Pankow is a museum with two sites: Prenzlauer Allee and Heynstraße. Location Heynstraße is the former home of the manufacturer Fritz Heyn and features an exhibition on upper-middle class living in 1900, still with many decorations and furniture in their original state. The decoration and

The Tucher Mansion Museum and Hirsvogel Hall is a museum in Nuremberg. The Tucherschloss was built as a city palace of the Nuremberg Patrician Tucher family. It is now a museum with exhibits on the history of the Tucher family and shows what was life like for the 16th century merchants. In addition

The Kunsthalle Bielefeld is both a museum with its own collection and an art hall with four temporary exhibitions per year. The art hall is located in the city of Bielefeld and was founded by industrialist Rudolf-August Oetker who was born in Bielefeld. The collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld foc

The Soul of Africa Museum (SOA) is a museum of African art in Essen. The focus of the museum is on voodoo, healing and the veneration of the dead in West Africa. Owner and curator of the museum is the ethnologist, photojournalist and filmmaker Henning Christoph. The collection of the museum includes

Ernst Barlach Haus (Ernst Barlach House) is an art museum devoted to the German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer Ernst Barlach. He is mostly known for his sculptures protesting against the war. The museum includes around 140 works in wood, bronze, ceramics, porcelain, terracotta and pla

Kestner Gesellschaft (Kestner Society) is an art gallery in Hanover that aims to present the latest works of important international artists. The museum feutures five halls. Each hall has its own unique dimensions and atmosphere. It is one of the largest Kunstverein art associations in Europe.

The Museum unter Tage - MuT fulfills two functions: one third (about 500 m2) of the exhibition space is used for temporary exhibitions and two-thirds (approximately 1,000 m2) of the exhibition space serves to permanently present parts of the collection. This includes about 350 works of landscape art

The Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt Art Association) is an art museum in Frankfurt that is founded in 1829 by a group of influential citizens of the city. It aims to support the arts in the city. The museum is housed in the Steinernes Haus, a gothic building from 1464. Although the museum has no

The Museum Der Stille (The Museum of Silence) in Berlin was founded in 1994 by the Russian painter Nikolai Georgievich Makarov with the aim of enabling people in the middle of the city to enjoy peace and contemplation. This intention was realized through a special interior design and the exhibition

The Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung is a foundation in Munich that aims to stimulate public interest in art and culture, primarily through its own program of exhibitions and concerts. The Kunstfoyer features exhibition related to graphic art and drawings, where every exhibition sets its own accen

The Museum Giersch is an art gallery in Frankfurt that hosts a changing series of exhibitions that display the art and cultural history of the Rhine-Main area. The museum is housed in a neoclassical villa built in 1910 and aims to promote the regions's cultural identity. The Museum Giersch hosts exh

The Torhaus Dölitz (Gatehouse Dölitz) is the remnant of a noble residence, the castle Dölitz. Large parts of Dölitz Castle and with it the gatehouse were built in the 17th century. The gatehouse contains a tin figure museum, the collection is one of the three largest publicly accessible worldwide wi

The Grassi Museum of Applied Arts is a museum in Leipzig and is the second oldest museum of decorative arts in Germany. The museum holds an excellent collection of decorative art with pieces dating back to the Antiquity. The Grassi Museum of Applied Arts holds around 90,000 items, of European and no

Kunstverein Hannover is an art association based in the Künstlerhaus in Hanover. The association organizes five to eight exhibitions of contemporary art each year.

The Museum Küppersmühle is a museum of modern art in Duisburg. The museum was founded in 1999 in an old grain store on the Duisburgse Innenhafen, the old port area of Duisburg. The museum displays art from the 1950s onwards in 13 different halls. The artworks, mainly paintings, are from various arti

The Ludwig Roselius Museum (Museum im Roselius-Haus) is a museum in Bremen that holds the private collection of the coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius (1874–1943). The museum is housed in a building that was completed in 1588. The collection consists of various objects from the Middle Ages to the Baroq

The Jenisch House is a country house that was built in the 19th century for the Hamburg Senator Martin Johan Jenisch. The house is an example of Hanseatic lifestyle and neoclassical architecture, is located in a landscaped parks on the banks of the Elbe and houses the Museum für Kunst und Kultur an

Grassi Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig is a large ethnographic museum in Leipzig in Germany. The museum holds a collection of around 200,000 objects, making it one of the largest ethnographic collections in Germany. The objects can be geographically categorized, with objects form East Asia, Southeast

The NRW Forum Wirtschaft und Kultur or Forum NRW is an exhibition and event venue in Düsseldorf that focuses on the development and the economy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and regions within it, with a focus on photography, pop and digital culture. The NRW Forum is housed in the Ehrenhof

The Sammlung Falckenberg is a private art collection in Hamburg of Dr. Harald Falckenberg. The collection is housed in the former factory halls of Phoenix AG. The art collection includes 1600 works by international avant-garde artists, including works by Martin Kippenberger, but also large installat

The Overbeck Museum is located in the listed "Old Pack House" in Bremen-Vegesack. It is the only museum in the Bremen metropolitan area dedicated to one of the founding fathers of the artists' colony Worpswede, the painter Fritz Overbeck (1869-1909), as well as his wife, the painter Hermine Overbeck

The Kunstvilla Nürnberg is a municipal museum in Nuremberg that focuses on regional art. The museum is located in a listed neo-baroque merchant villa in the Marienvorstadt and is part of the KunstKulturQuartier. The total exhibition area is approximately 600 square meters. The permanent exhibition f

The Museum of applied art Frankfurt (Museum Angewandte Kuns Frankfurt) is a museum of artisanal art and design in Frankfurt with a special emphasis on design, fashion and the performative element. The collection comprises 65,000 pieces over a period of 5 centuries, with the main focus being European

The Dresden Museum of Ethnology (Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden) is a museum in Dresden in Germany that holds and exhibits an ethnographic collection with more than 90,000 pieces from all over the world, including numerous precious, irreplaceable testimonies of long-lost cultures. The museum present

The Museum of Antiquities of the University of Leipzig (Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig) is a museum in Leipzig that holds a collection of antiques. The museum displays its collection in the Alte Nikolaischule. The collection of the museum contains 10,000objects, including black- and red-figur

The Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig (Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig) is a museum in Leipzig that holds a collection of approximately 7,000 finds from several millennia, from the Paleolithic and pre-dynastic cultures of Egypt throughout all periods of Pharaonic Egypt (early E

The Schackgalerie in munich contains the Sammlung Schack, the art collection of Count Adolf Friedrich von Schack. Von Schack was a patron who at the time supported the Munich art world. The building that houses the museum was originally designed by Adolf von Hildebrand. The collection mainly contain

The Kupferstichkabinett Dresden is a museum in Dresden with a collection of prints, drawings and photographs that is housed ion the Residenzschloss. The collection includes more than 500,000 pieces, of which only a small part is exhibited. The collection includes works by renowned artists, such as:

This year is the anniversary year of the Bauhaus art movement. Founded in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, where it had its heyday. In 1932, the artist school was moved to Berlin, where it closed its doors for good a year later. To mark 100 years of the Bauhaus, a new Bauhaus Mus

The Museum of World Cultures (Weltkulturen Museum) is an ethnological museum in Frankfurt. The museum is housed in three adjacent buildings on the Schaumainkai: 29 (the main building), 35 (the original villa), and 37 ("Gallery 37"). The Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt holds an displays a colle

The Monsterkabinett in Berlin is a place full of strange art and mechanical robot-monsters. It is an automated theater with the surreal creatures crated from various waste materials.

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the state of North Rhine-Westphalia's own art collection.

Sammlung Hoffman in Berlin is run by Erika Hoffmann who lives with her collection of contemporary art in Berlin. Every Saturday she opens her home to the public. Each July, the selection of works is being rearranged, according to a different themes.

KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION aims to be an independent space for contemporary art. It is a non-commercial art institution without an own collection. The exhibition space is located in a former warehouse from the 1950s, one of the few historical buildings remaining in Düsseldorf’s Media Harbour. With

The Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) is a platform for the production, presentation, and communication of contemporary and experimental (media) art. Among the major goals of the HMKV are exploring contemporary themes and questions, addressing the wider public in its educational work, and an interdi