Editing Braunschweig (section)

===Museums and galleries===
[[File:Braunschweig Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum nachts.jpg|thumb|right|Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum]]
[[File:Salve Hospes 04 1a.jpg|thumb|right|''Villa Salve Hospes'']]

The city's most important museum is the [[Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum]], a well known art museum and the oldest public museum in Germany, founded in 1754. It houses a collection of masters of Western art, including [[Albrecht Dürer|Dürer]], [[Giorgione]], [[Lucas Cranach the Elder|Cranach]], [[Hans Holbein the Younger|Holbein]], [[Anthony van Dyck|Van Dyck]], [[Jan Vermeer|Vermeer]], [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]], and [[Rembrandt]].

The [[Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum|State Museum of Brunswick]] (''Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum''), founded in 1891, houses a permanent collection documenting the history of the [[Brunswick Land|Brunswick area]] ranging from its early history to the present.

The Municipal Museum of Brunswick (''Städtisches Museum Braunschweig''), founded in 1861, is a museum for art and cultural history, documenting the history of the city of Braunschweig.

The [[Naturhistorisches Museum (Braunschweig)|State Natural History Museum]] is a zoology museum founded in 1754.

Other museums in the city include the Museum of Photography (''Museum für Photographie''), the Jewish Museum (''Jüdisches Museum''), the Museum for Agricultural Technology ''Gut Steinhof'', and the [[Friedrich Gerstäcker|Gerstäcker-Museum]]. Frequent exhibitions of contemporary art are also held by the Art Society of Braunschweig (German: ''Kunstverein Braunschweig''), housed in the ''Villa Salve Hospes'', a classicist villa built between 1805 and 1808.