The castle museum and the museum of playing cards almost classical represent the combination type within a larger and regional positioned museum – a „Mehrspartenhaus” (more divisional house). It is a town- and cultural historical museum with a dominant of arts and crafts. The playing cards are one of special collection.

The game „Skat“ got conceived in Altenburg, and the town can refer to a tradition for making of playing cards which goes back towards the end of the Middle Ages.

 

Architecture, fixtures and interior reflect the own history as a living and residence place of duke’s house and, more reverted, former occasionally elector domicile. Because the change between main residence and tributary residence and also the settlements of an estate began a historical characteristic and a shaped material-ideational legacy, too. These denotes desideratums and don’t proves to be continuous homogeneous. Nevertheless, it seems interesting enough as the  marked permanent exhibitions demonstrate.

 

The museum is open-minded to facet of modernity and art and handicraft from different times. There are exhibitions again and again with cultural-historical and historical topics.

The castle museum and the museum of playing cards constant presents art projects in different shade in special exhibitions. Therefore, there are expositions with nationwide artistic standard.