kk factory products cabinet

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The Imperial and Royal Factory Product Cabinet was a collection of industrially manufactured products in the Austrian Empire . It formed the basis for the later Vienna Technical Museum .

The Factory Products Cabinet was founded by Emperor Franz I on September 11, 1807 in Vienna with the aim of documenting the progress of industry as a collection of samples and excellent products from all over the empire under the sign of the country's early industrialization . The first director was Alois von Beckh-Widmanstätten until 1815. He looked for exhibits throughout Austria, from simple shovels to models of a shotgun barrel factory . He divided the makes according to the raw materials from the plant, animal and mineral world. For this purpose he also worked with Karl von Schreibers , who headed the Kk Hof-Naturalienkabinette .

The collection was originally housed in a private house and in 1815 it was attached to the Physico-Astronomical Cabinet , also founded under Franz I , the forerunner of the Technical University , the Polytechnic Institute. According to the constitution of Johann Joseph von Prechtl from 1817, which is still partly valid today, it was determined that the Polytechnic Institute should also be understood as a conservatory for arts and crafts and as an association for the promotion of national industry . The factory products cabinet had a clearly defined area of ​​responsibility in the constitution.

While the collection had around 6,000 in 1816, in 1829 there were already over 30,000 objects.

The independent collection was merged with the collection from the Imperial and Royal Technical Cabinet of Emperor Ferdinand to form the Technological Cabinet in the early 1840s .

In 2004, the Technical Museum dedicated a special exhibition to the kk factory products cabinet on the subject of "bulk goods - LUXURY GOODS" , in which objects from the first collection were shown.

literature

  • Thomas Werner (Hrsg.): Technology and Design of the Biedermeier. The kk National-Fabriksprodukten-Kabinett , 1995 Prestel Verlag ISBN 3791315900
  • Arnold Busson: Biedermeier stone glasses. (1817-1842). Glass from the National Factory Products Cabinet. Vol. 1., 1991 published by the Technisches Museum Wien

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