German Button Museum
The German Button Museum in Bärnau in the Upper Palatinate was opened in 1975. Since 1998 it has been located in the former communal brewery at Tachauer Strasse 2. Buttons from four centuries and 26 different materials are shown on two floors, as well as the machines used for button production and various manufacturing methods. In particular, the museum gives insights into the processing of mother- of- pearl .
History of the German Button Museum
After Rudolf Jäpel had set up a private collection, the first button museum was opened in 1975 on Bahnhofstrasse in Bärnau. When the collection threatened to be withdrawn, it was taken over by the city of Bärnau. The initiator of this action was the former head of the button school and the IKNOFA, Marcel Hermann. From 1982 Mr. Hermann and his wife Edith began to rearrange and build up the collection. This was followed by the establishment of the German Button Museum, which opened on March 1, 1983 in the building of the former button school in Tachauer Strasse. The basic inventory of approx. 6000 buttons of all kinds from the Rudolf Jäpel collection was increased to half a million individual items within a few years.
In 1988 the museum had around 2.5 million buttons. From 1985 onwards, new key events were held every year on individual button materials. The button museum, of which Marcel Hermann was until 1989, counted around 16,000 visitors until July 1987. Since the previous building no longer met the requirements of a modern museum, it was decided that the German Button Museum should find a new home in the communal brewery to be renovated. The documentation in the former brewery was set up from 1995 and opened in 1998.
Others
In Weidenberg in Upper Franconia there has been the Glass Button Museum since 1997 in the former Bernt button and glass factory in the Gablonzer Werksiedlung. Sudeten German expellees from Gablonz settled there from 1946 onwards, who brought with them the art of making glass buttons. The "Glas-Knopf-Museum Weidenberg" is sponsored by the association "Werksiedlung Weidenberg eV". The basis of the Glas-Knopf exhibition is the button sample cards from the former company E. Pilz "Crystall" from Fichtelberg. The manufacture of glass buttons is demonstrated on historical machines.
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Exhibition for the manufacture of buttons
Bottles filled with buttons
The clothing of the legendary pair of buttons consists of over 18,000 buttons
Web links
- Website of the German Button Museum (Tourist Info Bärnau)
- [1] (Geopark Bavaria)
Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 39.2 " N , 12 ° 26 ′ 2" E