Fürstenberg Castle Museum

The museum building in Fürstenberg Castle , 2017

The Museum Schloss Fürstenberg is a porcelain and company museum in the municipality of Fürstenberg in the Holzminden district in Lower Saxony . It presents the more than 270-year-old tradition of the Fürstenberg porcelain factory and is the only porcelain museum in Northern Germany .

description

Figurengruppe The coffee company of Jean Jacques Desoches 1770 in showroom

The museum is located in Fürstenberg Palace . The museum exhibition conveys the history of the castle to visitors and gives an overview of the products made by the Fürstenberg porcelain factory from the Rococo period to the present day. Of the various ceramic materials, this museum located on the western Solling deals with porcelain , while the ceramic material class earthenware is presented in the ceramics located on the eastern Solling .

The Museum Schloss Fürstenberg is represented by a permanent exhibition, changing special exhibitions and a visitor workshop. The permanent exhibition contains selected objects from the extensive porcelain collection, some of which have not been publicly displayed before, which are presented alternately. Porcelain workers demonstrate manufacturing techniques in the visitors ' workshop. Visitors can also paint porcelain themselves there.

history

The museum opened in 1957 on a small exhibition space. The basis was the private collection of a shareholder in the then Fürstenberg stock corporation . The scientific supervision of the exhibition was initially provided by the historian and later director of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum Rolf Hagen . In the 1960s, targeted collecting began, which also resulted in repurchases from the art trade.

The museum has been located in the historic castle building, which was used for porcelain production from 1747 to 1972, since a renovation in 1978. After a further renovation in 1991, exhibition rooms were added on the upper floor, so that the expansion enabled a more spacious exhibition concept. In 2015 the museum was certified with the Lower Saxony and Bremen museum quality seal. Extensive renovation and renovation work was carried out between 2015 and 2017, during which the exhibition was redesigned.

The reopening of the museum took place in March 2017 with a ceremony in the presence of Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil . In addition to the newly designed permanent exhibition, the museum also houses a visitors' workshop and themed special exhibitions.

The new foam magazine has been housed in one of the oldest rooms in the castle since May 2018. Precious figures from the 18th century, curious equipment from the 19th century or rare design icons from the 20th century are displayed in a central glass cube. In addition, porcelain art from the early days of the manufactory is presented in a floor-to-ceiling wall cabinet with the Reichmann collection.

Christian Lechelt has been running the museum since October 2016 , who was previously the project manager for the redesign of the exhibition.

inside rooms

The interior of the museum consists of half-timbered constructions that were painted white as a result of the reorientation of the museum.

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  Showroom

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  Showroom

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  Visitor workshop

literature

• Beatrix Freifrau von Wolff-Metternich : Porcelain Museum Fürstenberg in the book series: museum at Georg Westermann Verlag Braunschweig, 1992
• Christian Lechelt, Manfred Meinz , Beatrix Freifrau von Wolff-Metternich: The Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg. Complete Compendium Volume I – III. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2016, ISBN 978-3-944939-24-7 .

Web links

Commons : Museum Schloss Fürstenberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Museum Schloss Fürstenberg
• Description of castle and museum at museum.de
• Old Fürstenberg porcelain newly presented at ndr.de on March 3, 2017 with video
• Museum Schloss Fürstenberg - Bistro CARL

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release Fürstenberg Castle receives seal of approval - Museum in the castle of the Fürstenberg porcelain factory recertified (pdf)
2. ↑ Simone Flörke: First insights into the modernized porcelain museum in Fürstenberg Castle in Neue Westfälische from February 11, 2017
3. ^ Boffzen-Fürstenberg: Reopening of the Museum Castle Fürstenberg in Neue Westfälische
4. ↑ New Treasury for Fürstenberg Castle The Lion - The Portal of the Brunswick Foundations, May 29, 2018
5. ^ "Walk-in book" on January 9th in Wolfenbüttel at regionalWeltenbüttel.de on January 9th, 2017
6. ↑ CDU member of the Bundestag visiting fuerstenberg-porzellan.com on April 20, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '53.4 "  N , 9 ° 23' 52.1"  E