International Ceramic Museum Weiden

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The Waldsassener Kasten building
Three pitchers, Kangxi period

The International Ceramics Museum Weiden is a 1990 Branch of the Neue Sammlung Munich based Museum of porcelain and ceramics in the Bavarian town of Weiden . It is housed in the Waldsassener Kasten , which was built by the Baroque master builder Philipp Muttone of the Waldsassen monastery in the middle of the 18th century as a granary for the monastery properties.

Ceramic and porcelain products from leading German and European manufacturers from the Rococo to the 20th century as well as exhibits from various periods from all parts of the world are shown on around 1,000 m² of exhibition space . The State Museum of Egyptian Art , the State Archaeological Collection , the Bavarian National Museum and the New Collection itself are involved in the collection.

A central part of the museum is the one created by the Weiden entrepreneur Dr. Wilhelm Seltmann's collection of Chinese porcelain, which his widow gave to the museum in 1994 . It focuses on products from the Qing Dynasty and, unlike comparable collections, also pays considerable attention to art from the 19th century.

In December 2015, the museum was put on The Red List by the German Cultural Council and classified in Category 1 (threatened with closure).

literature

  • Bernhard von Barsewitsch, Arnulf Stößel: Ceramics of the Bavarian National Museum (collection of Barsewisch) in the International Ceramic Museum in Weiden . Bavarian National Museum, Munich 1990.
  • International Ceramic Museum, City Museum Weiden . In: Vernissage . Metropolitan Regions Issue 17, 2009, ISSN  1434-5986 , pp. 54–55.

Children's tours

  • Family tours are also offered in the ceramics museum. There, children and young people lead the families through the museum and then pottery with the children in the ceramics workshop.

Web links

Commons : Internationales Keramik-Museum Weiden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Cultural Council Politics & Culture 1/16, page 15 Cultural life: The Red List ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 8.6 MB), accessed on December 20, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturrat.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 12 ° 9 ′ 50.4 ″  E