Augustiner Museum

The First World War not only interrupted the rebuilding but also severely restricted it compared to the original plans,[3] due to lack of funds.

The museum's collection, which was begun by the city of Freiburg in the 1880s,[5] can be only partially exhibited due to the building work.

[3][4] There is also a sculpture hall with four-metre-high stone prophets from Freiburg Cathedral,[6] a church organ from Welte & Sons with an exterior from the 1730s, and a library of art and cultural history.

In 2010 the museum did not make it to the final stage of the Awards for Innovative Developments in Tourism by the British Guild of Travel Writers, but came in sixth.

Additional exhibition space was created in the basement floor to provide for special shows for all of Freiburg's museums.

In cooperation with the Museum of Modern Arts in Freiburg, the opening was celebrated with a double exhibition of the works by Katharina Grosse and her mother Barbara.

Many of the exhibits can't be shown for spatial and preserving reasons even after the end of the first stage of redevelopment in March 2010.

According to the Freiburg city council this phase of construction was initially supposed to cost 8.5 million Euros.

However this project, which was supposed to be planned in early 2011, was put under scrutiny, since there were cuts in the culture budget of the city.

The Augustiner Museum displays a municipal collection of art which was founded in the 1880s by Lord Mayor Otto Winterer.

Due to contamination caused by wood preservation agents, some of the museum's wings had been closed for a number of years since they were mostly unusable.

Panel paintings and wood sculptures surround the hall in cabinets on the ground floor as well as the gallery upstairs.

Here, works by Matthias Grünewald, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Schaffner and Hans Baldung can be found, along with "Christ on a Donkey" (1350/60), and a number of paintings from the Speyer Altarpiece by the Master of the Housebook (circa 1480).

In the attic one can find paintings from the 19th century by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Hans Thoma, Anselm Feuerbach and many more.

This hall makes it possible for the city of Freiburg to host special exhibitions according to the international conservational standards.

After a Europe-wide, open competitive bidding, the company Waldkircher Orgelbau Jäger & Brommer was chosen to remove later additions to the organ and restore its original tonal condition from 1944.