What to do and see in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony: The Best Specialty Museums

The Oldenburg Computer Museum is dedicated to the preservation and operational presentation of the history of home computing. The museum presents computers, video games and arcade game machines from the 1970’s through 1990’s. What is special about the OCM is the fact that the exhibits are functional and invite visitors to try out and use them.

The Horst Janssen Museum as an institution is entirely devoted to the fine arts on paper. It is dedicated to Horst Janssen (1929-1995), the great Northern German artist in drawing and etching who created great masterpieces on paper during the second half of the 20th century. The broad range of his art is impressive: There are wood carvings, fine line drawings, etchings, lithographies and water colours. The museum shows in ever changing exhibitions the best examples of his egomaniac selfportraits, his in utterly abandon dessinated still lifes of flowers, his unmasking portraits and erotic drawings.

Oldenburg Palace, the former residence of Count Anton Günther (1583–1667) and the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg until 1918/19, is now home to a museum for art and cultural history.

Since the year 2000 the Edith-Russ-Haus for media art shows on its 300m² exhibition space artworks in varyying temporal exhibitions. This art tends to be procesual and immaterial. Therefore the Edith-Russ-Haus is explicitly no museum in which art is preserved, but an exhibition hall with seminar room in which art is presented and discussed.

Besides exhibiting the city's history, the municipal museum consists of three historic mansions.