Two adjoining houses make up the Art Collection Böttcherstrasse. One of these is the Roselius-Haus Museum , which is inside a historic patrician house from the 16th century and contains a collection of art from medieval times to the baroque era. The collection belonged to Ludwig Roselius, the man who gave the world decaffeinated coffee and used the money from his beans and other ventures to bankroll the expressionist Böttcherstrasse in the 1930s. The second house is the work of Bernhard Hoetger, the creative mind behind much of Böttcherstrasse. This house is now the Paula Modersohn-Becker Haus Museum and showcases the art of the eponymous painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), an early expressionist and member of the Worpswede colony.
