Museum Walter Reinhardt, Artist museum in Bemerode, Hanover, Germany

The Museum Walter Reinhardt is a private art museum housed in a residential building in Hanover that displays paintings, prints, collages, drawings, and mixed media created by the artist. The works are arranged across several thematically organized rooms and a staircase area.

Walter Reinhardt, born in Bad Kissingen in 1932 and died in Hanover in 2011, ran the Reinhardtshöhe restaurant in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt from 1981, where he exhibited part of his art collection. In the early 1980s he acquired around 60 works from the Junior Galerie in Goslar, including pieces by Dalí, Warhol and Horst Janssen. After moving to Hanover he set up a studio in his duplex house, and after his death the former living area and studio were opened to the public.

The museum is named after "Potz", a figure Walter Reinhardt invented as a hybrid of figure and ornament, which he varied many times using Japanese occult characters depicting angels, spiritual teachers or zodiac signs as models. The living room, not part of the museum, recreates the guest room of his restaurant Reinhardtshöhe in Salzgitter with original furniture and art, and is used for refreshments during guided tours.

The museum is managed by Birgit Jahn-Reinhardt, the artist's widow, and is open only by appointment. Visitors need to arrange visits in advance to see the collection.

The exterior walls of the residence are decorated with colorful sculptures based on the artist's original motifs. These decorative elements signal the creative nature of the building from the street itself.