First German banana museum

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Museum director Stelli Banana 2011

The First German Banana Museum was a private museum in Sierksdorf in the Ostholstein district (Schleswig-Holstein). It was the only German museum that deals with the banana in art and economy and the banana as a collector's item.

History and destruction by fire in 2018

The museum was founded on June 22, 1991 by industrial designer and freelance artist Bernhard Stellmacher (artist name Stelli Banana ). The inventory amounted to around 10,500 exhibits.

After the museum was last closed for renovations, a fire broke out in an extension on the night of November 26, 2018. Smoke and extinguishing agents also caused damage to the museum itself. The operator's son does not expect it to reopen.

Exhibits

The most valuable exhibit is a banana engraving by the naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian from the early 18th century. Andy Warhol's banana is also represented.

Almost straight bananas in growth

Other exhibits include a wooden sculpture of a worker on a banana plantation , barrels for the transport of banana pulp, plush bananas and depictions of the fruit in advertising, but also artistic and humorous uses in a "banana bending machine", as a banana spirit level and other humorous objects for Banana theme. These include a “native banana shark” and a “banana machine” that throws money out when you put a banana in it. The museum is also dedicated to the theme of the eroticism of the banana .

Special exhibitions

A special exhibition was dedicated to the US-French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker , who used to appear in a banana skirt. Another special exhibition was dedicated to the German "union fruit", in which a Trabant was one of the objects. The exhibition was reminiscent of the fall of 1989, when after the opening of the inner-German border, GDR citizens came to the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin and stocked up on bananas there.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Hoenig: Fire in Schleswig-Holstein: First German banana museum in danger . In: THE WORLD . November 26, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed November 27, 2018]).
  2. ^ NDR: Fire at the Banana Museum: Is it now threatened with closure? ( ndr.de [accessed on November 27, 2018]).

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Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 3.3 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 8.5 ″  E