Wilhelm Busch Museum

Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawings
Wilhelm Busch - Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst
The museum in the Georgenpalais
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Established1937; 87 years ago (1937)
LocationHanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Coordinates52°23′3.3″N 9°42′28″E / 52.384250°N 9.70778°E / 52.384250; 9.70778
TypeArt museum
Websitewww.sprengel-museum.com

The Wilhelm Busch Museum (German: Wilhelm Busch - Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst, "Wilhelm Busch - German Museum of Caricature and Drawings") is a museum in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. It features the world's largest collection of works by Wilhelm Busch,[1] as well as contemporary comic art, illustrations and drawings.

It is located in the Georgengarten (part of the Herrenhausen Gardens) in a palace known as the Georgenpalais, dating from around 1780. The museum is run by the Wilhelm Busch Society, which formed in 1930.[2]

  1. ^ Wilhelm-Busch-Museum City of Hanover. (in English)
  2. ^ Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft (in German)