The potato museum
The potato museum in Munich is one of three potato museums in Germany and deals with the art-historical aspects of the potato . It was opened in 1996 by the Otto Eckart Foundation . Otto Eckart was the owner of the Pfanni works until it was sold to Unilever and is the son of the company's founder Werner Eckart. In addition to his work as a board member, he held the office of honorary honorary consul of the Republic of Guatemala until 2017 .
The museum is based on an extensive collection of images (oil paintings, watercolors , engravings , drawings, lithographs , prints, naive reverse glass painting , modern graphics). In addition to the exhibition, the museum also includes a specialist library for scientific purposes.
Until March 31, 2016, the museum was located in the so-called “corner house” on Grafinger Straße on the former site of the Pfanni company, which manufactured potato products there. The move to a new building in the neighborhood is being prepared.
Before the temporary closure, the museum was divided into eight exhibition rooms:
- History: From Inca gold to folk food
- Flowers, plants, tubers
- Cultivation and harvest
- Market scenes
- Multi-talent potato
- Collection of rarities
- Princely food and poor people's food
- Modern gallery
In 2006 a new department was added to the Potato Museum , the Pfanni Museum , which shows the history of the Pfanni branded product from 1949 to 1999.
See also
- German Potato Museum in Fußgönheim
- Western Pomeranian Potato Museum in Stremlow.
- List of museums in Munich
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Chancellery: Addresses of the consular representations in the Free State of Bavaria
- ↑ The Potato Museum moves to the Werksviertel. sueddeutsche.de, March 15, 2016, accessed on August 21, 2016 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '32 " N , 11 ° 36' 20.9" E