The Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art (BLMK) was founded in July 2017. It is the only state museum for art in the state of Brandenburg. The BLMK was formed in 2017 from the merger of the dkw. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus and the Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder). Through this merger, two independent, complementary museum collections were combined to form the most comprehensive museum resource of art from the GDR and subsequent artistic traditions.