GERMANY ~ Museum August Kestner - Hanover ~

... Nice view of the oldest museum of the State Capital founded more than 120 years ago... surrounded by a listed glass-concrete facade (1961)... inside there are still parts of the stairwell and the side wings as well as almost the entire entrance facade of the original first museum building... it shows 6000 years of applied art in four areas: ancient and Egyptian cultures, applied art from the Middle Ages to modern design and one of the largest collections of coins and medals in Northern Germany...  besides its permanent collection, the Museum also hosts a variety of special exhibitions throughout the whole year... but also this museum is closed for now and will reopen in April... with as usual a great special postmark about the "180th anniversary of the first stamp in Prussia"👍... Thanks a lot Dustin!【ツ】

Museum August Kestner, previously Kestner-Museum was founded in 1889. On the 230th birthday of August Kestner, the house was renamed 'Museum August Kestner'.

Museum August Kestner is centered on the collections of August Kestner and his nephew Hermann Kestner, later followed by the collections of Friedrich Culemann and Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing.

Stamps:

Flora - Flowers
(Issued 08-06-2017)

Flora -Flowers
(Issued 01-07-2019)