The Wilhelm Busch Museum, with its unique collection of Busch’s work and a treasury of satirical and humorous art, is widely respected as the German Museum of Caricature and Critical Graphic Arts.

The Museum, run by the Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft e.V. was founded in 1930. It is home to the largest and most significant collection of the artist’s work, comprising around 350 paintings, 1,200 drawings from nature, the original drawings for 50 picture stories, and about 900 letters and 200 poetry and prose manuscripts by the artist. This collection is complemented by an archive and a specialist library containing 2,500 volumes.

The other focus of the museum’s work is the internationally important collection of caricature and critical graphic arts. Assembled over the past 40 years, it today comprises more than 20,000 works spanning five centuries, including originals by such famous artists as Francisco de Goya, William Hogarth, Honoré Daumier, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Paul Flora, Loriot, Tomi Ungerer and Manfred Deix.