The WeltenMuseum presents special exhibitions of national importance every year. Guided tours and lectures, events and a varied museum education program offer numerous opportunities to explore individual topics. Here you will find a list of our current special exhibitions.
Paula Modersohn-Becker is one of the most important female artists of the period around 1900. The Landesmuseum Hannover owns the world's second largest collection of her works, which are being presented in their entirety in an exhibition for the first time.
The Etruscans lived in central Italy at the time of the founding of Rome. Their highly developed culture and extensive relationships not only contributed to the emergence of the "Eternal City" in the 1st millennium BC. BC. The influence of this powerful ancient people even served as a model for the founding of the state of Italy over 2.000 years later.
Caspar David Friedrich is today considered the most important German Romantic painter. On the occasion of the artist's 250th birthday, the Hanover State Museum is showing a cabinet exhibition with works from its own holdings. The focus is on the series of works called “Four Times of Day”, the only completely preserved cycle of times of day by Friedrich. New art technological findings are also highlighted: What do infrared photographs of the works reveal about how the artist created the compositions?
As contemporary witnesses to the Nazi crimes, the survivors of the concentration and extermination camps with their different biographies are the focus of the work of the Regensburg photographer Stefan Hanke. In cooperation with Villa Seligmann, the Hanover State Museum presents over 60 impressive black and white portraits and invites viewers to a lasting encounter with extraordinary people.
Since the 1860s, Impressionism has blown like a breath of fresh air from France across the entire continent - and stirred up the art world of the European north. In collaboration with the Dutch Museum Singer Laren and the Museum Art of the West Coast Alkersum/Föhr, the Hannover State Museum shows how the peculiarities of the important art movements were reflected in the works of the Danish, Dutch and German artists and were implemented into their own, country-specific variations .