The State Museum is a museum and art gallery founded in the German city of Schwerin by Frederick Francis II, Duke of Mecklenburg in 1882 AD. The museum is famous for its valuable collection of works that it displays, which includes Dutch and Flemish paintings dating back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as some works from the Middle Ages, in addition to the complete collection of works by the French-American artist Marcel Duchamp. The museum also includes more than 90 exhibits of household utensils and statues made of porcelain.