State Museum for Art and Cultural History

Ольденбург (значения) / Германия

The State Museum for Art and Cultural History is an art museum consisting of three separate buildings located close to each other in the city of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.The three museum locations are: Schloss Oldenburg Augusteum Prinzenpalais The museum was established in 1919 after the abdication the previous year of Frederick Augustus II, the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg. 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.