The Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig may look like an uninspired uniform rectangular building (which it is), but the art that resides in it is nowhere near as boring as its exterior façade.

Not to sounds like a total hater, but this is possibly the most architecturally boring art museum around. As much as I like complaining about it, I should probably tone in down, we're lucky that there's even a permanent building to house this impressive art collection.

This museum has had a bit of a turbulent history: Maximilian Speck von Sternburg was a total art fanatic and with the help of his wife, the two of them amassed a significant collection of 19^th century French paintings, which became the basis for this museum's collection. Many other art collectors have generously donated pieces to the collection, but few triggered as much change as Adolf Heinrich Schletter who donated a massive amount of work on the condition that a museum be built to house the collection in the next five years. 

A museum was finally built and all was going well until 1937, when Nazis came in and confiscated 394 paintings and prints from their collection and labeled them degenerate art. Then eleven years later in 1948, the museum was destroyed by a British air raid as a result of WWII. For the next 61 years, the collection became a bit transient as it moved from one location to the other. Finally, probably due how ridiculous that was, Germany finally decided to cough up over $82 million and built the museum that exists today.