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A museum’s collection is affected to a large degree also by its locality: its history and well-developed local conditions, and also in like measure by the interests and taste of those who built it up or contributed to it.
Thus, the focus of the citizenry that founded and supported the Wuppertal museum was especially on the art of Germany and Western Europe from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
The collection’s connection with the locality is expressed particularly clearly in the numerous portrayals of the Wupper Valley and Bergisch Country as well as of persons who earned an honourable reputation in the city or its environs. It is apparent also in the fact that artists living locally were exhibited and supported by purchases.