Pforzheim jewelry museum
The Pforzheim jewelry museum in the Reuchlinhaus is a special museum on the history of jewelry . Building on collections established in the 19th century, it houses thousands of historical pieces of jewelery: originals from five millennia, from examples from prehistoric and early historical cultures to contemporary jewelery.
The focus is on gems from Greek and Etruscan - Roman antiquity, from the Renaissance and Art Nouveau . The extensive ring collection and the probably unique collection of contemporary jewelry are of high standing . Also ethnographic jewelery and a pocket watch collection can be seen. In addition, a section of the museum is dedicated to the history of the city of Pforzheim as the center of the German jewelry and watch industry.
There are regular special exhibitions on historical, ethnological and modern topics of jewelry and goldsmithing .
Snake bracelet, Greco-Hellenistic, 3rd - 2nd century BC Chr.
Bouquet of flowers, around 1620
Bangle, Peter Chang, Glasgow 1998
literature
- Heinz Battke : Rings from four millennia. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1963 ( Insel-Bücherei 780)
- Cornelie Holzach, Tilman Schempp; based on the texts by Fritz Falk, with a contribution by Christoph Timm: Jewelry Museum Pforzheim. Museum guide. Arnoldsche Publishing House. Engl./Dt. Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89790238-9 .
Web links
- Homepage of the jewelry museum Pforzheim
- Jewelry Museum Pforzheim at Google Cultural Institute
- Literature from and about the jewelry museum Pforzheim in the catalog of the German National Library
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '9.8 " N , 8 ° 41' 51.2" E