Wilhelm Busch - Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst | |
Established | 1937 |
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Location | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
Coordinates | 52°23′3.3″N 9°42′28″E / 52.384250°N 9.70778°E |
Type | Art museum |
Website | www |
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]