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 exhibi
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