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| Established | 20 August 1869 |
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| Location | Glockengießerwall 20095 Hamburg, Germany |
| Coordinates | 53°33′18″N 10°00′11″E / 53.55500°N 10.00306°E |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitors | 382,000 (2013)[1] |
| Director | Alexander Klar |
| Owner | Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg |
| Public transit access |   Hauptbahnhof Nord |
| Website | hamburger-kunsthalle.de |
The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country. It consists of three connected buildings, dating from 1869 (main building), 1921 (Kuppelsaal) and 1997 (Galerie der Gegenwart), located in the Altstadt district between the Hauptbahnhof (central train station) and the two Alster lakes.
The name Kunsthalle indicates the museum's history as an 'art hall' when it was founded in 1850. Today, it houses one of the few art collections in Germany that cover seven centuries of European art, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Its permanent collections focus on North German painting of the 14th century, paintings by Dutch, Flemish and Italian artists of the 16th and 17th centuries, French and German drawings and paintings of the 19th century, and international modern and contemporary art.
- ^ "Rekordbilanz: Mehr als 382.000 Besucher in der Kunsthalle (10.01.2014)". abendblatt.de (in German). Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg. Archived from the original on 6 June 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2015.