The best museums Germany

The Art Gallery of Leipzig is proposing located in an incredibly bright building, with a glass of glass, opened in 2005 in the heart of the old town. The main exhibition site of art recognized in Leipzig, the MDBK, whose existence dates back to 1848, exhibits major works of German art, from the Renaissance to today. The passionate visitor by German painting and sculpture dénichera countless wonders here. First, the works of the artists, the most famous Leipzig children. Among them, Max Beckmann, heir of expressionism and New Objectivity, who carried out a singular and uncategorized work, far from Leipzig; You can also admire his portrait of a carpet dealer. The other glorious child of the city is Max Klinger symbolism, who remained active in the city for most of his life. In particular, you can gaze at the Monument at Beethoven, one of its most appreciated sculptural works. Alongside the artists linked to this city - which has not just been a city of plastic art - you will be able to wander through major works of German art acquired by the museum: those of the expressionist painters of the Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter groups, including the beautiful loving couple of Otto Müller. There are many paintings from the German Impressionist, less known because in the continuity of their French peers, but often very talented; and also those of romantic painting which was the first to distinguish Germany in the th century. In this current, the masterpiece of the museum is the famous Lebensstufen (Ages of Life) of Caspar David Friedrich. One of the nails of the museum is the Salle Lucas Cranach, dedicated to the Renaissance master, including the famous Adam and Eve. You will still find a good collection of East-German and contemporary art, including paintings from the first two Leipziger Schulen who participated in the genesis of Neue Leipziger Schule.

Temporary exhibitions are always of high quality and very well thématisées. The glass building also allows you to admire Baroque houses across the street.

A brand-new museum opens in 2022! The Samurai Museum is the first museum in Europe devoted exclusively to samurai culture and history. It houses the largest collection of authentic samurai artifacts outside Japan, with over a thousand objects dating from the ^8th to the 19th^century , bearing witness to the extraordinary skills of the samurai. The tour promises interactive installations as well as temporary exhibitions examining the long-term influence of samurai on today's culture, even outside Japan.

Another excursion through the ages, the one you propose this museum installed in a beautiful th century mansion, transformed into the th century by the architect Jakob Couven, whose baroque style influenced the region greatly. A neo-neoclassic ensemble with white Doric columns, a rotunda, galleries, and some extremely well-established rooms, where you can go through a multitude of furniture, works of art and costumes, tracing the US, customs and modes of the bourgeois population during the Baroque period until the th century. No need to be a furniture lover to find the whole fun.

Founded in the 11th century, then redesigned in 1129 by the Order of the Premonstratensians, it is one of the most significant Romanesque complexes in Germany. Austere, the stone is queen. Vault, capitals, crypt, fortified towers... Visiting the church and the splendid cloister after the cathedral can be a good opportunity to compare Gothic and Romanesque. The convent was transformed during the communist era into a museum of contemporary art (!); this museum is not uninteresting and also has a collection of historical sculptures. The mixture of novel and contemporary may seem strange, but the two do not go too badly together. The premises include a tea room.

The Zeppelin Museum displays the largest exhibition of aviation history and gives you the great adventure of Ferdinand Zeppelin. It also has a regional art section of the last five centuries.

This museum presents treasures from the 900 years of history of the city, its foundation in baroque times. Here you will find the models of the city and a model of the cathedral showing the reconstruction of the Romanesque choir.

Located on a small island on the Weser opposite the Schlachte promenade, this museum, one of the most important in Germany, is extremely well designed. It is installed in the former warehouses of tobacco factories. It presents the works of contemporary German and international artists from the 1960s to the present day. It regularly organizes exhibitions, guided tours, conferences, meetings with artists, film screenings...

From the Landing landing at the Buchheim Museum, 15 minutes walk from the lake. A private museum, he presents the collection of Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of the new Das Boot (Le Styx in his French translation is his first novel) published in 1976. It houses works of art from all over the world, including some belonging to the Indian Painters movement, Die Brücke, Le Pont, founded in 1905 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rotluff and Erich Heckel.