The Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Weimar Classics Foundation; known from 2003 to 2006 as Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen) is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 cultural foundation, formed on 1 January 2003 by merging the former Institute Stiftung Weimarer Klassik and the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar.

The Klassik Stiftung Weimar is a member of the Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen

Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen

The Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen or Conference of National Cultural Institutions is a union of more than twenty cultural organizations in the former East Germany...

, a union of more than twenty cultural institutions in the former East Germany.