East Frisian State Museum Emden. The East Frisian State Museum Emden is the art, culture and regional history museum of the East Frisia region. In its permanent exhibition on the art and history of the city of Emden, East Frisia and its integration into European cultural history, around 4% of the over 50,000 objects in the total inventory are shown. In addition, special exhibitions on various art and cultural-historical topics are regularly presented, which are accompanied by the publication of specialist catalogs. The sponsors of the museum are the city of Emden and the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities of Emden since 1820. The museum sees itself as a European regional museum that is as comprehensive and interdisciplinary as possible and is dedicated to the history of art and culture and, as a driving force behind urban, regional and national culture, promotes regional identity. On March 26, 1820, six citizens of Emden founded the Society for Fine Art and Patriotic Antiquities of Emden in order to preserve and exhibit art treasures from private households for the city. The background to this was the long-running sell-off of East Frisian cultural assets to other regions. In 1832/1833 the association acquired a building on Kirchstrasse and set up a public art and regional history library there. In 1869 the company bought a town house on Grosse Strasse, in which the exhibits were permanently exhibited for the first time. This laid the foundation stone for what will later become the State Museum, which is the oldest museum facility in East Frisia. As early as 1877, the building received an extension to be able to show additional objects. In 1934 the museum was given its current name. Almost the entire inventory could be saved through relocations during the Second World War. In 1962 the holdings of the Society for fine arts and patriotic antiquities zu emden since 1820 were combined with those of the city of Emden and have since been exhibited in the newly built town hall on Delft. Despite retaining the name, it was no longer intended to serve as an administration building, but as a cultural site. The museum remained closed from 2003 and 2005 and was fundamentally rebuilt during this time, as the exhibition's spatial, content and design presentation needed to be revised. The cost of the restructuring amounted to more than eight million euros. On September 6, 2005, Emden celebrated its reopening under the current name Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden with a newly designed permanent exhibition. The focus of the collections is on the art and cultural history of Emden and East Frisia as well as their international, especially European, relationships. There are more than 50,000 objects in the inventory. Most of them come from the collection of 1820 die KUNST. These include paintings by Dutch artists from the 16th to 18th centuries. Century and East Frisian / North German artist of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as prints, graphics, city maps, maps and sea maps of Emden, East Frisia and the bordering Netherlands. The Foundation for fine arts and culture in the German-Dutch Ems-Dollart region established in November 2011 forms the legal and organizational framework for further acquisitions of works by contemporary northwest German artists. Also sculptures of predominantly pre-Reformation church art, the coin and silver collection and a collection of everyday objects from the 19th and 20th centuries from bequests and donations were added to the KUNST inventory through 1820. The archaeological section contains both everyday objects and architectural remains from early settlement to the early modern period. The bog body Mann von Bernuthsfeld and the associated finds are also part of this collection, but have been presented since 2016 in a specially set up exhibition room. From the stock of the city come, among other things. the council treasure of the city of Emden, the objects of the Emden armory and the stained glass windows of the historic Renaissance town hall with justice motifs and depictions of historical and biblical personalities.