The area was part of the old city wall defences built by the Dutchman Jan van Valckenborgh.
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The museum was built on the site of the former Bastion Henricus, a part of the baroque fortification which was erected between 1616 and 1625 by the Dutchman Jan van Valckenborgh in order to make the town impregnable.
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The Petri portal from Hamburg's St. Petri Church, built in 1604, was built into the museum courtyard in the 1990s.
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