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Munich
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Today it is a leading museum for applied arts sculpture and cultural history from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century with strong Bavarian focus
Founded by King Maximilian the Second as a museum of Bavarian history and art later expanded with major collections of European decorative arts and sculpture in a new building on Prinzregentenstrasse
Late Gothic wooden sculptures by Tilman Riemenschneider Baroque Bavarian sculptures Renaissance armour and weapons precious liturgical objects faience and porcelain from Nymphenburg and other manufactories historical furniture nativity scenes and folk art ensembles
More than 100000 objects including sculpture furniture textiles glass ceramics and folk art
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