Reiss Engelhorn Museum

Reiss Engelhorn Museum
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen
Location Mannheim, Germany
Coordinates 49°29′20″N 8°27′44″E / 49.48888°N 8.46212°E / 49.48888; 8.46212Coordinates: 49°29′20″N 8°27′44″E / 49.48888°N 8.46212°E / 49.48888; 8.46212
Collection size ~1.2 million objects
Website www.rem-mannheim.de/en/
Portrait of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1724-1799), painted by Anna Dorothea Lisiewska-Therbusch in 1763, and whose copyright is subject of the lawsuit

The Reiss Engelhorn Museum, or Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen (rem for short), is a museum in Mannheim, Germany. They have an exhibition area of 11,300 square metres (122,000 sq ft), and house around 1.2 million objects. They are one of the largest publicly-owned museums in southern Germany.[1] In 2015, they filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland over the use of photographs of public domain artworks on the Wikimedia projects.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen". Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art". 23 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

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