Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg
The Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg was a museum in Lüneburg with a focus on the history of the Principality of Lüneburg . There were also exhibitions on other topics, including the history of the Lüneburg salt works .
In 1878, among others, Georg Keferstein founded the Museum Association for the Principality of Lüneburg , which in the following years promoted the establishment of a museum on the state's history. With financial help from the landscape of the Principality of Lüneburg , the museum was built from 1889 to 1891 according to plans by the architects August Friedrich Heithaus and Ferdinand Munzenberger on a plot of land made available by the City of Lüneburg. The museum was opened in 1891. The basis of the collection was the teaching material collection of the Lüneburg Knight Academy, which was closed in 1850 .
The museum was closed in 2010, together with the Natural History Museum and Lüneburg City Archeology, it will form the new Lüneburg Museum from 2015 . This museum on the corner of Willy-Brandt-Straße / Wandrahmstraße opened on March 1, 2015.
literature
- Gerhard Körner: Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg , Schnell-Kunstführer No. 1183, Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich and Zurich 1979
- Eckhard Michael: Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg. Westermann, Braunschweig 1991.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 47.3 " N , 10 ° 24 ′ 57.3" E