This museum is the only of its kind in America, with an emphasis on the art of German-speaking countries, and promotes an educated enjoyment of the arts of Northern and Central Europe; of special note are the collections of Austrian art, German Expressionism, Abstract art from the 1920s, and works that are related to the Bauhaus movement. One can view artwork from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, and the museum is ever expanding its collection of post World War II and contemporary art from the German-speaking regions in Europe.