In Kassel, everything revolves around art. It's the home of documenta, the world's most important exhibition of modern art. Every five years famous artists display their work throughout the town over a period of 100 days. The "Museum der 100 Tage" was built specially for documenta. During the exhibition, documenta attracts almost a million visitors to Kassel.
Alongside Wilhelmshöhe Palace visitor can admire its spectacular Rembrandt collection, so-called Gallery of Beauties – a series of portraits depicting attractive ladies of the court of Wilhelm VIII that still grace the two anterooms of the Landgrave's apartment. One of the most eminent collections of its kind, the Old Masters Picture Gallery enjoys a worldwide reputation. The main emphasis of the collection is on 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting, with numerous masterpieces by Rubens, Frans Hals, Van Dyck und Jordaens. The New Gallery is home to the municipal and State art collections. From the Romantic-era landscape paintings of the 19th century to masterpieces of German Impressionism and works of contemporary art. Caricatura, the Gallery for Comic Art, is Germany’s only gallery for comical art, displaying five different exhibitions of work a year where the best-known artists in the industry present their work to the public.
Kassel is also home to one of Europe's most palatial gardens, the Wilhelmshöhe Park UNESCO World Heritage Site. The work of art combining nature, architecture and landscape design is arranged in the style of an English landscape garden. Works of art are everywhere you turn in Kassel.