Kunstmuseum Erlangen, Erlangen

The Erlangen Museum of Art is a regional exhibition house, archive and museum for contemporary art in Erlangen. It is located in the Loewenichsche Palais. Since July 2016, the sponsor is the city of Erlangen.

Since 1998, the art museum has exhibited works of art created after 1945 by artists with special ties to the Nuremberg or Erlangen region. The exhibition rooms, which cover around 300 square meters, are located on the second floor of the Loewenich Palace and the southern extension built in 2002. Five to nine individual, group or theme exhibitions are shown each year, both by established and young artists, as well as commemorative exhibitions of important post-war artists of the region. Paintings, graphic art, sculpture and photographs are exhibited. There are also exhibitions of works owned by local collectors. In addition to exhibition activities, an archive, library and art collection of regional art are being developed. The building also housed the Oskar Koller Foundation from 2006 to 2009.

The building, which had previously been used by the Deutsche Bundespost, was acquired in 1998 by the Förderverein Kunstmuseum Erlangen e. V. This had been founded in 1989 out of the Erlangen Art Association. In 2016, the association handed over the sponsorship of the art museum to the city of Erlangen.