Money for the expansion of Museum Gunzenhauser

The Gunzenhauser Museum in Chemnitz will receive half a million euros from the assets of the parties, their organizations and mass organizations of the former GDR. According to the Ministry of Culture in Dresden, this will be used to fund the expansion of the fourth floor of the tower, primarily for educational purposes.

The museum, which opened in 2007, is an important cultural and tourist attraction in the city and is developing into a place for encounters, cultural education and exchange, it said.

Foundation Gunzenhauser also provides money

With the support and funding of the same amount from the Gunzenhauser Foundation, the museum could be positioned more strongly as a place of inspiration, especially for young people, said Florence Thurmes, General Director of the art collections. The Youth Council could meet there, offers for school classes could take place or a platform for a future-oriented debate on current social issues could be created.

The museum in a former savings bank building houses the important private collection of Munich gallery owner Alfred Gunzenhauser (1926 to 2015) with over 3,000 works of classical modern art from the second half of the 20th century.