Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum — Attraction in Brunswick

A very nice museum that we visited due to a family relation having worked there as curator so it was very special to visit.

It was very quiet when we visited, which was nice.

Only downsides was that something the family had donated to the museum was no longer on display and a member of staff we spoke to wasn't even aware of it despite it only having happened a few years ago.

I found one staff member a bit rude also, in one room there was a lot of beeping going on and supposedly this would happen if you got closer than 30cm from the paintings but it didn't seem to add up. The signage for the paintings was in about font size 10 so it was very difficult to read and also no english translations so there could be improvement there.

There were also no toilets that we could see (unless they were in the adjoining museum cafe that we didn't go into).

It was very nicely decorated and nicely laid out too. Well...

Had an AWFUL experience in this museum. Was there in August 2018 during the heat wave. There was NO AIR CONDITIONING. It was literally like walking around in a Finnish sauna. I got out of there in 15 minutes, but the poor museum staff! They were dripping with perspiration and using fans to cool off. Definitely do NOT visit during warm weather. They may have a nice collection, but I was not in that overheated tomb long enough to judge that. Also, they spent millions renovating the place, but apparently did not even consider the museum environment. With these conditions, I half expected the oil paintings to melt off...

The museum itself is really nice, collection of paintings was well organized and quite impressive. We didn’t have a chance to finish our tour because we were quite rudely pushed out of the museum when it was 17.45 (museum closes at 6pm), some particular worker insisted on us leaving. I mean, I know it’s a museum, but being used to visiting some famous museums, I was quite surprised by this attitude (and a bit of rushed closing procedure). If you really like good art and happened to be in Braunschweig - definitely worth a visit, but I wouldn’t travel here specifically for this...