Gera’s Orangery is a late Baroque structure with two wings located in the former kitchen gardens of the estate of the younger line of the princely Reuß family. The orangery and greenhouse was designed by the Saxon state builder to the monarchy Gottfried Heinrich Krohne and built in the years 1729-1732 and 1748/49. Over the course of a tumultuous history, it served as military hospital, a horse barn, a gymnasium and a restaurant, and finally housed the Gera Art Association. The Orangery has been the home of the Gera Art Collection since 1972.

The two side wings and two ballrooms located in the center part of the building provide just under 1,000 square meters of space for the newly designed exhibition  “From Cranach to Dix” and for an ambitious program of special exhibits.