Kunstsammlungen der Städtischen Museen Zwickau

The Kunstsammlungen Zwickau – Max Pechstein Museum is a department of the Städtisches Museum Zwickau founded in 1925, which was inaugurated on 23 April 1914 as the King Albert Museum Previous history The new building by the architect Richard Schiffner was initially constructed to house the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau [ de ], the mineral Collection donated in 1868, the manuscript of the council archives and the art objects owned by the municipality, as well as the collection of the Antiquities Society. Today it houses the art collections (including the sculpture collection), the mineral collection dating back to the mineral collection of the Zwickau mining factor Ernst Julius Richter geowissenschaftliche Abteilung and thee Ratsschulbibliothek.