German Playing Card Museum

The German Playing Card Museum (German: Deutsches Spielkartenmuseum) in Leinfelden-Echterdingen is a branch of the Württemberg State Museum and houses one of the largest public playing cards collections in Europe.

On the initiative of Julius Benndorf, editor of the Altenburger Skatkalender (pseudonym Benno Dirf), and with the help of Carl Schneider, director of the United Stralsund Playing Card Manufacturers (later ASS), a one-room playing card museum called the Skatheimat (home of Skat), was added to the local history museum in Altenburg Castle, founded four years earlier by Albrecht von der Gabelentz.

In 1946, during the dismantling of the ASS playing card factory by the Soviet Military Administration in Thuringia, the museum's collection was also removed; its whereabouts are unclear.

On 18 August 1982, the Museum was sold to the state of Baden-Württemberg and the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen due to the increasingly narrow financial margin at ASS.

The town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen closed the exhibition on 30 June 2012 and converted the museum into an archive that can be viewed by appointment.