Saarland Museum

The history of the Saarland Museum began in 1924, when an ethnographic museum with a small section of graphics was created in the city. The exposition grew rapidly, replenished with works by both French and German artists, and today has turned into a rich collection of works by masters of different eras and styles.

The collection of the Saarland Museum includes the Old Gallery, the Modern Art Gallery with the Sculpture Garden and an exhibition in the castle church.

The basis of the Old Gallery is still lifes and landscapes of the Dutch of the XVI-XVII centuries, Renaissance paintings, including portraits of famous nobles and rulers of the earth. In the halls of the gallery you can see more than 300 samples of ancient furniture, sculptures, silverware and porcelain.

The Gallery of Contemporary Art is the most significant collection of the museum, where outstanding works of avant-garde artists are presented. Beginning in 1950, the museum purposefully worked to create a collection of French and German Impressionists. Thanks to this, today in the halls of the museum there are works by Rodin, Matisse, Lieberman, Picasso, Ernst, Kirchner, Feininger and many other artists. A special pride of the museum is the painting “Little Blue Horse” by Franz Mark.

One of the main directions of the museum is the organization of exhibitions of modern masters of painting.