Two unique museums form the cultural nucleus of Böttcherstraße with the construction of which the coffee merchant and patron Ludwig Roselius realised his life's dream in 1922. His private collection with paintings by e.g. Riemenschneider and Cranach. Is housed behind an artfully styled façade of the seemingly mediaeval alley just like the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, the first museum worldwide honouring the work of a female artist. Furthermore there are galleries and arts and crafts workshops in the alley.