Thousands of years under one roof

The lawyer August Kestner (1777-1853) lived as a diplomat of the Hanover king house in Rome for many years, where he gathered an extensive collection of antique art. Its nephew gave the works of art to the city of Hanover in 1882. Together with the 1887 acquired art collection of the printer and Hanover senator Friedrich Culemann they form the basic stick of the today's collection of the museum, which was opened 1889. 

The house today accommodates four departments: 
 

Coins &  Medals	Egyptian  Art	Antiquity  Art	Arts and crafts  of the Middle Ages  up to the present

Faience of Lower Saxony 

The faience of Lower Saxony forms a collection emphasis of the department of arts and crafts. The museum possesses more than 200 objects from the factories in Braunschweig, Hannoversch-Muenden and Wrisbergholzen . The collection was structured with determination since existence of the house, in order to document the domestic art-commercial products from the old Welfen countries. The 26 faiences from Wrisbergholzen, by which approximately 20 is shown in the constant collection, document those variety and characteristic of the products of the factory in Wrisbergholzen.
 

Regular guidance to different topics of the collections:
Sundays, 11,30 a.m., on Wednesdays 5,30 p.m.
Special guidance according to declaration/agreement: +49 511-168 45677 

More information about the Museum August Kestner you can find here.

(You find the museum direct beside the new city hall, one of the well-known landmarks of Hanover).