Museum August Kestner
Museum August Kestner stands in Hanover as an art and archaeological museum, open to the public since 1889. Its galleries bring together Ancient Egypt, Classical Antiquity, Numismatics, and Handicraft across six thousand years of applied art and cultural history. Wheelchair access makes these collections available to visitors with mobility needs.
August Kestner and his nephew Hermann began the collections with their own finds, while Friedrich Culemann and Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing later expanded them. Egyptian mummies, Greek vases, Roman artefacts, medieval and Renaissance objects, coins, medals, clocks, and musical instruments trace connections across Europe and Asia. Chinese, Japanese, and Indian handicraft widen that journey beyond the ancient Mediterranean.
Two objects give the visit a lasting focus: the Egyptian mummy known as the “lady of the house,” dating from around 700 BC, and the Roman Venus of Sirente from the first century AD. A listed glass-concrete façade from 1961 still incorporates parts of the original 1889 building.
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