Greisinger Museum
The Greisinger Museum is a foundation (“Greisinger Museum Stiftung”) museum in Jenins . The museum stands on private property and was opened on September 7, 2013.
The foundation was set up to make Tolkien's Middle-earth accessible to the public. Tolkien's Middle-earth is a part of the world invented by the English author Tolkien , the setting for the novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings . Tolkien referred to the continent as Middle-earth, as the Germanic peoples themselves referred to the known land on which they lived in this way. Tolkien describes his world from the creation to the end of the Third Age of the Sun where by his son Christopher Tolkien posthumously published work The Silmarillion , Tolkien had worked on the till his death.
The Greisinger Museum is the only museum in the world that is dedicated to the topic of "Tolkien's Middle-earth". Almost all of the exhibits on display are privately owned. With around 600 original paintings and drawings, over 3500 books and several thousand pieces of collection of all kinds, the size of the collection is the largest and most important of its kind. Around half of the collection is presented in the museum.
Construction of the museum began in mid-2008. The planning and execution of the museum were geared towards optimizing the use of the collection. With their ambience, all rooms offer visitors the feeling of being in «Middle-earth». The door of the hobbit cave leads to the museum, the majority of which are underground.
The museum has no fixed opening times and can only be visited as part of a guided tour.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 59 '55.2 " N , 9 ° 33' 31.3" E ; CH1903: 761228 / 207467