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82 The Joanneum from 1888 to 2002 In the following years, as part of the implementation of the organic statute, the partially outsourced collections were returned to the Lesliehof in Rau- bergasse 10, which had now become vacant, and reorganised. However, a new building was unavoidably necessary to house the newly created cultur- al-historical collection and the picture gallery of the drawing academy of the estates, which had been combined with the collection of important Styrian works of art dating back to Archduke Johann. This was built at Neutorgasse 45 between 1890 and 1895 according to plans by August Gunolt. At the same time, an extension to the Lesliehof was erected for the state library. Hand in hand with this was the neo-Baroque design of the façade of the wing of the Lesliehof in Raubergasse, which was extended to the south in 1825 and 1826. With the move to the library building at Kalchberggasse 2 in 1893, the state library was practically separated from the Joanneum. These structural measures stood at the end of protracted discussions about the expansion of the Joanneum and were also supported by the consideration that – should a further expansion be necessary in the future – this could be done by the inclusion of a building in Kalchberggasse, which would connect the museum in Neutorgasse with the state library and thus create a uniformly used overall facility. But also the north wing of the museum building at Neu- torgasse 45 was designed in such a way that the possibility of a connection with the museum building at Raubergasse 10 was left open. This original and obvious idea of linking the two houses was considered before the Second World War in view of the need to adequately accommodate the growing hold- ings of the state art gallery, and was also re-introduced in the years before 2002 into the considerations about restructuring the Joanneum. The takeover of further collections and buildings into the care of the Joan- neum undoubtedly represents one of the main trends in the development up to the present day. In the course of time it became the largest Austrian pro- vincial museum. Whereas in 1911 – the year of the 100th anniversary of the Institute – there were just three buildings, later on the following nine buildings with historically valuable structures were entrusted to the State Museum for use as collection sites and for the most part also for preservation: Museum building at Raubergasse 10 (since 1811), the State Armoury (since 1892), mu- seum building at Neutorgasse 45 (since 1895), museum building at Paulustor- gasse 11-13a (since 1913), Palais Herberstein (since 1941) as a long-term loca- tion for the art collections of the 19th and 20th centuries after the state art gallery was divided into an Alte Galerie and a Neue Galerie, Eggenberg Castle