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The Bavarian National Museum (German: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum) in Munich is one of the most important museums of decorative arts in Europe and one of the largest art museums in Germany. [ citation needed ] Since the beginning the collection has been divided into two main groups: the art historical collection and the folklore collection.
Stadtmuseum Fembohaus (City Museum at Fembo House) Science and nature museums. DB-Museum (DB Railway Museum) Deutsches Museum Nürnberg (Future Museum) Museum Industriekultur (Museum of Industrial Culture) Museum für Kommunikation (Museum of Communications) Naturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg (Natural History Museum Nuremberg)
A national museum can be a museum maintained and funded by a national government. [1] In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government , while other museums are run by regional or local governments. [ 2 ]
Matthias Weniger, who is a curator at the Munich museum and oversees its restitution efforts, has made it his mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the ...
This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicians, the evolution and variety of musical instruments, and other aspects of the world of music.
The collection was founded in 1868, but its history started much earlier. The first collectors of objects from outside Europe were the members of the Wittelsbach dynasty. Today the museum is the second largest in Germany, outnumbered only by Berlin, with a collection of 200,000 objects and an exhibition area of 4,500 square metres (48,000 sq ft).
The museum is under the supervision of the Bavarian State Painting Collections which also owns an expanded collection of several thousand European paintings from the 13th to 18th centuries. Especially its collection of Early Italian, Old German, Old Dutch and Flemish paintings is one of the most important in the world.
These institutions vary in their scope and focus, with some museums dedicated to a specific national or regional context and chronicling the military history of a particular country or region, while other museums may concentrate on a particular conflict, era, service, technology (like an artillery museum), or unit (like a regimental museum).