Museum Kunstpalast, Art museum in Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum Kunstpalast is an art museum in Düsseldorf's Ehrenhof complex, housed in a brick building with grey stone trim and a projecting entrance flanked by two bronze statues. Its collection of over 100,000 objects spans paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, applied arts and design, and includes the Helmut Hentrich Glass Museum. The Robert-Schumann-Saal, a concert hall with 796 seats, is integrated into the building.
The museum's origins lie in the Düsseldorf Gemäldegalerie founded from 1709 by Elector Johann Wilhelm and his wife Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici; most of it was moved to Munich in 1805. In 1846 the Verein zur Errichtung einer Gemäldegalerie was founded to buy works of the Düsseldorf school, and on 1 July 1913 the city decided to build its own museum. The collection opened in 1913; since 1926 it has occupied the north-west wing of Wilhelm Kreis's Ehrenhof complex, built for the GeSoLei exhibition.
The Helmut Hentrich Glass Museum inside the building displays glass objects spanning over two millennia from different cultures and periods. Visitors walk through rooms showing pieces from ancient Rome to modern European designer works.
The museum occupies the northwest wing of the Ehrenhof complex, entered through the stone portal flanked by two bronze statues. Tram line 704 stops at Kreuzstrasse Süd, a short walk from the entrance. The Robert-Schumann-Saal concert hall, with 796 seats, has its own event programme separate from the galleries.
In 2022, the institution returned Franz Marc's painting The Foxes to the heirs of Jewish collector Kurt Grawi. The work had been acquired during the Nazi period under duress.
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