State Museum for Art and Cultural History
Main entrance to the State Museum in Schloss Oldenburg
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LocationOldenburg
Coordinates53°8′15.7″N 8°12′59.0″E / 53.137694°N 8.216389°E / 53.137694; 8.216389
Typeart museum
Ancient Greek pottery in the museum.

The State Museum for Art and Cultural History (in German: Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte) is an art museum consisting of three separate buildings located close to each other in the city of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.[1]

The three museum locations are:

The museum was established in 1919 after the abdication the previous year of Frederick Augustus II, the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg.[1] The initial collection consisted of the former Grand Duke's picture gallery, a collection of antiquities, and the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts and the former National Picture Gallery.

The three buildings are all located close to the northeast corner of the Schlossgarten Oldenburg, now Oldenburg's main public park.

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References

  1. 1 2 "State Museum for Art and Cultural History". www.oldenburg.de. Germany. Retrieved 13 September 2015.


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