A list of Museums and Art Galleries in Germany

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A list of Museums and Art Galleries in Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony - Museums and Art Galleries in Lower Saxony, including non-profit art centers and galleries, government entities, and private businesses.

NAME LOCATION TELEPHONE & WEBSITE SUMMARY
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum Museumstraße 1, 38100 Braunschweig Telephone: +49 53112250
www.3landesmuseen.de		 The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (HAUM) is an art museum in the German city of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony.Founded in 1754, the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is one of the oldest museums in Europe. It houses an important collection of Western old master paintings, and is especially strong in Northern European art since the Renaissance, including works by Cranach (a very strong collection), Holbein, Dürer, Van Dyck, Rubens, and Rembrandt. Rarities include a single work each by Vermeer, Giorgione and Rosso Fiorentino. The museum is based on the Schloss Salzdahlum art collection of Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1633–1714), after whom it is named. In old catalogs, the term Bilder-Galerie zu Salzthalen refers to this collection.
Kestnergesellschaft Goseriede 11, 30159 Hannover Telephone: +49 511701200
kestnergesellschaft.de		 Kestner Gesellschaft (Kestner Society) is an art gallery in Hanover, Germany, founded in 1916 to promote the arts. Its founders included the painter Wilhelm von Debschitz (1871–1948). The association blossomed under the management of Alexander Dorner (de) and Justus Bier (de), pioneering modern art.
Kestner-Museum Trammplatz 3, 30159 Hannover Telephone: +49 51116842730
www.hannover.de		 Museum August Kestner, previously Kestner-Museum, is a museum in Hanover, Germany. It was founded in 1889. The museum was renamed Museum August Kestner in December 2007 to avoid confusion with the Kestnergesellschaft, a local art gallery.
Lower Saxony State Museum Willy-Brandt-Allee 5, 30169 Hannover Telephone: +49 5119807686
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niedersachsen.de		 The Lower Saxony State Museum (German: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover) is a museum in Hanover, Germany. It is located opposite the New City Hall. The museum comprises the State Gallery (Landesgalerie), featuring paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, plus departments of archaeology, natural history and ethnology. The museum includes a vivarium with fish, amphibians, reptiles and arthropods.
Sprengel Museum Kurt-Schwitters-Platz, 30169 Hannover Telephone: +49 51116843875
http://sprengel-museum.com/		 The Margrit and Bernhard Sprengel collection was presented to the city of Hanover which led to the establishment of the Sprengel Museum Hannover. It has since developed into an internationally recognised, top class museum. The Sprengel Museum Hannover with its comprehensive permanent collection and diverse temporary exhibitions ranks among the most important museums of 20th and 21st century art.
Wilhelm Busch Museum Georgengarten, 30167 Hannover Telephone: +49 51116999911
https://www.karikatur-museum.de/		 The Wilhelm Busch Museum (German: Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst Wilhelm Busch, "German Museum of Caricature and Drawings Wilhelm Busch") is a museum in Hanover, Germany. It features the world's largest collection of works by Busch, as well as contemporary comic art, illustrations and drawings.
Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum Am Steine 1, 31134 Hildesheim Telephone: +49 512193690
http://www.rpmuseum.de/		 The Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim is an archaeological museum in Hildesheim, Germany. Mostly dedicated to Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Peruvian art, the museum also includes the second largest collection of Chinese porcelain in Europe. Furthermore, the museum owns collections of natural history, ethnology, applied arts, drawings and prints, local history and arts, as well as archeology. Apart from the permanent exhibitions, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions of other archaeological and contemporary topics.
Felix Nussbaum Haus Lotter Str. 2, 49078 Osnabrück Telephone: +49 5413232207
http://www.osnabrueck.de/		 The Felix Nussbaum Haus is a museum in Osnabrück, Germany, which houses the paintings of German-Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum. The building also houses an exhibition space, which focuses on racism and intolerance.