Museums

The garden and palace (Großer Garten Palais) presents a collection of Saxon garden sculpture that accords with the earliest Baroque building in the Electorate of Saxony. Fifty sculptures, Permoser Sculpture Exhibition, give an extensive insight into sculpture in Saxony from the end of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century.

In four rooms, the permanent exhibition of the museum (Stadtmuseum) has over 1,100 items on display. More than twenty media terminals and many educational features create a variety of ways to engage with eight hundred years of history in Dresden.

For over six hundred years life at the northern entrance to the famous Plauen Valley was dominated by the presence of mills. One of the former mill buildings has been made into a museum. This museum (Museum Hofmühle) also houses permanent exhibitions relating to prominent local figures.

The museum is named after Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) and presents a the collection of sculpture. It is complemented by sections on painting, graphics, photography and new media.

The museum (Museum Küppersmühle ) is devoted to key works from the Ströher Collection and the oeuvres of influential German artists since the 1950s, with an emphasis on painting.

The nuseum exhibits five thousand years of art history, from ancient Egypt and the Orient to contemporary art.

The museum (Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum) shows the history of Duisburg.