Grassi Museum of Applied Arts

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GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts
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place Leipzig
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opening 1874
operator
City of Leipzig
management
Olaf Thormann
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-853210

The GRASSI Museum for Applied Arts in Leipzig is a municipal institution. It is the oldest arts and crafts museum in Germany after the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts; its collections are among the most important in Europe.

Collections

The museum collects objects from European and non-European handicrafts - from antiquity to the present. One focus is the applied arts of the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has a total of 230,000 objects.

In addition, there is a library with around 60,000 bibliographical units, more than 50,000 sheets of the graphic collection and around 75,000 photographs.

history

Old Grassi Museum
New Grassi Museum

The museum was founded in 1874 by an association of Leipzig citizens, the "Society of Friends of the Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig" u. a. by Fritz von Harck , opened as an arts and crafts museum in the old office building .

In 1895, the strongly grown collection moved to the Alte Grassimuseum on Königsplatz (today Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz , building of the city ​​library ). The city of Leipzig has sponsored the museum since 1904.

The Kunstgewerbemuseum has been located in the New Grassimuseum on Johannisplatz since 1926 . Here it initially used around 9,000 square meters.

The museum building was badly destroyed in the Second World War , but most of the collections that had been moved out were preserved. In 1950 the Museum of Applied Arts was renamed the Museum of Arts and Crafts .

From 1981 to 1994 no permanent exhibitions could be shown due to the poor state of construction. From 2001 to 2006 the museum building was extensively renovated. In 2005 the museum was renamed to its current name.

After its extensive renovation and modernization, the museum opened at the end of 2007 with a new permanent exhibition. From its three areas “Antiquity to Historicism” has been on view since the end of 2007, “Asian Art. Impulses for Europe ”since January 2010,“ Art Nouveau to the Present ”from the beginning of March 2012. In addition, special exhibitions and the annual Grassi Fair at the end of October invite you to visit.

See also

Web links

Commons : Grassi Museum of Applied Arts  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 13 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 18.4 ″  E