Museum August Kestner, previously Kestner-Museum, is a museum in Hanover, Germany, founded in 1889. It was renamed "Museum August Kestner" in December 2007 to avoid confusion with the "Kestnergesellschaft", a local art gallery.
The museum based on the collections of August Kestner an his nephew Hermann Kestner, later followed by the collections of Friedrich Culemann and Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing. It contains four different collections:
- Ancient Egypt
- Classical Antiquity
- Numismatics
- Handicraft
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