Jenisch-Haus, Hamburg

The classical Jenisch house was built at the beginning of the 19th Century and today serves as a branch of the Altonaer Museum. Karl Friedrich Schinkel contributed to its design. It is located in the beautiful Jenisch-Park beside the river Elbe, and displays historic examples of upper middle class home furnishings from the 16th-19th Centuries in 14 exhibition rooms on several floors. Among them are impressive halls for prestige purposes, which are decorated in the Classical and Biedermeier styles, as well as many pieces of furniture, paintings and crafts from the late renaissance period. The beautiful art nouveau furniture is also worth seeing.