Museum August Kestner

Kestner Museum

Museum August Kestner, previously Kestner-Museum, is a museum in Hanover, Germany, founded in 1889. It was renamed "Museum August Kestner" in December 2007 to avoid confusion with the Kestnergesellschaft, a local art gallery.

The museum based on the collections of August Kestner and his nephew Hermann Kestner, later followed by the collections of Friedrich Culemann and Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing. It contains four different collections:

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Coordinates: 52°22′05″N 9°44′10″E / 52.368°N 9.736°E / 52.368; 9.736


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