Moritzburg Art Museum, Art museum in the late mediaeval bishop's residence, Halle (Saale), Germany.
The Moritzburg Art Museum is an art museum housed in a late medieval bishop's residence in Halle an der Saale. The building contains around 250,000 works including paintings, graphics, and decorative arts displayed across several restored spaces within the castle complex.
The collection was founded in 1885 as a museum of arts and crafts and moved to Moritzburg Castle in 1904, where it became a center for modern art. After this relocation, the institution focused on building a collection spanning different periods of art history.
The museum's name comes from Moritzburg Castle, the former residence of the archbishops of Magdeburg, where its collections have been shown since 1904. In 1913 the purchase of Emil Nolde's Abendmahl triggered a nationwide museum dispute over whether public museums may buy contemporary art. Since 1921 all collections are housed in the castle.
The museum is open Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday through Sunday, with free admission for children under 18 and students. Wearing comfortable shoes is advisable since exhibition spaces are spread across multiple floors and different areas of the castle complex.
In 1929 the museum installed electric lighting, one of the first in Germany to do so. That same year Lyonel Feininger received a residency and worked in a studio set up in the upper floor of the Moritzburg's gate tower; his series of 11 Halle paintings was bought for the museum in 1931 together with 29 related drawings.
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