Museum of Fine Arts is the historical value of the city of Leipzig. It was founded in 1858 thanks to the assistance and initiatives of various publishers and agents, as well as bankers and businessmen. At the heart of art collections are collections of individuals, among whom were the exhibits paintings of the XIX century. Museum made a gift to such famous figures as Alfred Tim Maximilian Speck von Shternburg and Adolf Heinrich Shletter.

Over time, the collection is enriched thanks to the talents of others. One of the last significant investment in the cultural foundation of the museum was the collection of French painting, transmitted Hans Peter Bühler and his wife in 2004. Among the paintings, you can find works by Claude Monet and Jean-Baptiste Corot.

The first building for the Museum of Fine Arts was built in 1858 thanks to the works of Ludwig Lange, who decided to create a kind of palace, designed in the style of the Italian Renaissance. Unfortunately, during the war in 1943 it was destroyed. For this reason, the collection for over forty years, exhibited in the Museum of Dimitrov.

In 2004 it was decided to build a new building for the Museum of Fine Arts. It was carried out by architects Peter Putz, cardio Hufnagel and Michaela Rafaelyan. The building is in the form of a glass cube with numerous terraces and staircases reflects to some degree the architecture arcades of Leipzig. In the process of design of the museum were used materials such as glass, oak, shell rock and concrete.

Currently, among the collections of the museum you can find painting, sculpture and graphics, not only the present, but also of the late Middle Ages. Of particular interest are the collection of Dutch, Italian and German painting XV-XVIII centuries, French paintings of the XIX century.