Editing Stuttgart (section)

=== Museums ===
[[File:Stuttgart alte staatsgalerie.jpg|thumb|Entrance to the [[Staatsgalerie Stuttgart|Old State Gallery]]]]
[[File:Württembergische Königskrone.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Württemberg]] crown jewels on display in the State Museum of Württemberg ([[Old Castle (Stuttgart)|Old Castle]])]]

Stuttgart is home to five of the eleven state museums in [[Baden-Württemberg]]. The foremost of these is the [[Staatsgalerie Stuttgart|Old State Gallery]] (opened in 1843, extended in 1984) which holds art dating from the 14th to 19th century including works by [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]], [[Rembrandt]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]], [[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]] and [[Joseph Beuys|Beuys]]. Next door to the Old State Gallery is the [[Neue Staatsgalerie|New State Gallery]] (1980) with its controversial modern architecture. Among others, this gallery houses works from [[Max Beckmann]], [[Salvador Dalí|Dalí]], [[Henri Matisse|Matisse]], [[Joan Miró|Miró]], [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], [[Paul Klee|Klee]], [[Marc Chagall|Chagall]] and [[Wassily Kandinsky|Kandinsky]].

The [[Old Castle (Stuttgart)|Old Castle]] is also home to the [[Landesmuseum Württemberg|State Museum of Württemberg]] which was founded in 1862 by [[William I of Württemberg]]. The museum traces the rich [[history of Württemberg]] with many artifacts from its dukes, counts and kings, as well as earlier remnants dating back to the [[Stone Age]]. On the Karlsplatz side of the Old Castle is a museum dedicated to the memory of [[Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg]], former resident of Stuttgart who attempted to assassinate [[Adolf Hitler]] on [[20 July plot|20 July 1944]].
[[File:Mercedes-Benz Museum 201312 08 blue hour.jpg|right|thumb|[[Mercedes-Benz Museum]]]]
[[File:Porsche-Museum Main Entrance.JPG|thumb|right|[[Porsche Museum, Stuttgart|Porsche Museum]]]]

Other leading museums in Stuttgart include:
*The History Museum (''Haus der Geschichte'', 1987), examining local history, finds, the conflict between modern society and its cultural history
*[[State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart]] (SMNS) in [[Rosensteinpark|Park Rosenstein]] housed in [[Rosenstein Castle|Castle Rosenstein]] (with an emphasis on biology and natural history) and Löwentor Museum ([[paleontology]] and geology, home of the [[Steinheim skull]] and many unique fossils from the [[triassic]], [[jurassic]] and tertiary periods)
*The [[Mercedes-Benz Museum]] (1936, moved in 2006), now the most visited museum in Stuttgart (440,000 visits per year).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stuttgart.de/en/item/show/335717 |title=Mercedes-Benz Museum |access-date=14 October 2018 |work=State Capital Stuttgart}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The museum traces the 125-year history of the automobile from the legendary silver arrow to the [[Mercedes-Benz]] brand of today.
*[[Kunstmuseum Stuttgart|Stuttgart Art Museum]] (''Kunstmuseum Stuttgart'', 2005), the number two museum in Stuttgart in terms of visitors with a strong leaning towards modern art (the foremost exhibition of [[Otto Dix]] works). The museum stands on the corner of [[Schlossplatz, Stuttgart]] in a huge glass cube, in strong contrast to the surrounding traditional architecture.
*The [[Porsche Museum, Stuttgart|Porsche Museum]] (1976; reopened in 2008 on new premises)
*[[Hegel House]] (''Hegelhaus''), birthplace of the philosopher [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] which documents his life works
*The [[Linden Museum]], established in 1911, a leading international [[ethnology|ethnological]] museum<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lindenmuseum.de/en/about-us/story/ |title=The Linden Museum – the World in Stuttgart |publisher=Lindenmuseum.de |access-date=14 October 2018 |archive-date=15 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015042118/https://www.lindenmuseum.de/en/about-us/story/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Stuttgart Tram Museum (''Straßenbahnwelt Stuttgart'') in Bad Cannstatt, a display of historical vehicles dating back to 1868
*Theodor Heuss House (''[[Theodor Heuss|Theodor-Heuss]]-Haus'', 2002) in [[Killesbergpark]], a tribute to the life and times of the former German president
*The North Station Memorial (''Gedenkstätte am Nordbahnhof Stuttgart'') in memory of the 2000 or so Jewish [[The Holocaust|holocaust]] victims deported by the [[Nazism|Nazis]] from the now disused North Station