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Best Museums in Hanover

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Historisches Museum Hannover is dedicated to the rich and storied history of Hanover. It covers centuries of eventful history including the rise and fall of principalities, kingdoms and courts. Star attractions include opulent belongings of monarchs, commissioned portraits, flags, costumes and medals. However, the museum does not dwell on royalty by any means. Other exhibits pay tribute to the common people, highlighting areas such as forestry, hunting, rail travel, mining, universities, the postal service and the law.

The Lower Saxony State Museum contains a selection of paintings and sculptures spanning nine centuries, as well as interesting archaeological, ethnological and natural history exhibits. The museum's art collection includes the works of prolific painters like Rembrandt and Albrecht Dürer as well as numerous other artists. German and Italian Renaissance art hangs alongside old Dutch masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries. Almost half of the 44 galleries containing the Landesmuseum's collection of paintings and sculptures are dedicated to 19th and 20th-century art, from Romanticism through to Impressionism.

Exhibiting the collection curated by Bernhard Sprengel, a local industrialist, the Sprengel Museum Hannover contains a fine display of modern art by the likes of Picasso, Chagall, Klee and Nolde. A whole section is devoted to the work of the Dadaist artist Kurt Schwitter and temporary exhibitions of contemporary art are often scheduled on a regular basis. If you are an art enthusiast, this place is a must visit.

Wilhelm Busch Museum is marvelous sight within the Herrenhausen Garden. Formed in 1930, the museum features some of the most significant collections with pictures and drawings by Wilhelm Busch who was one of Germany's greatest cartoonists and creator of the legendary comic figures. The museum was extended in the 1980s and now contains five centuries worth of caricatures and graphics by a host of German and international artists such as Heinrich Zille.

The Kestner Gesellschaft was established in 1916 as a gallery for 20th-century art. Banned in 1936 by the Third Reich authorities, the Kestner Gesellschaft reopened its gallery in the Warmbüchenstrasse in 1948. The Kestner Gesellschaft began to look for a suitable gallery when the old building became too outdated to meet the technical demands of present-day art exhibitions. The ideal location for the new gallery was found in the center of the city in the former Goseriede Public Baths. The Kestner Gesellschaft displayed exhibits by renowned artists like Andy Warhol, Tomi Ungerer and others.

Museum August Kestner gets its name from the founder, August Kestner, a well-known diplomat. Most of the exhibits on display are from his own collection of artifacts from Egypt, Rome and Greece. When the museum opened, the collection of Friedrich Culemann, a Hanoverian, was also on display. Classic Greek and Roman antiques, vases, brass, terracotta and bronze articles, as well as jewelry, sculptures even mummies are showcased. The museum also houses precious manuscripts, ancient textiles, bronze, ivory and other time-honored relics.

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