Museum Würth

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Logo of the Würth Museum
Würth company in Künzelsau, art in architecture , sculpture by Robert Jacobsen

The Museum Würth is a private art museum opened in 1991 by the entrepreneur Reinhold Würth in Künzelsau -Gaisbach ( Baden-Württemberg ) , which goes back to Würth's private art collection that has grown over forty years. With three to four changing exhibitions a year, the Würth Museum mainly shows works from the Würth Collection .

The postmodern museum building was built between 1989 and 1991 by architects Siegfried Müller and Maja Djordjevic-Müller . It is integrated into the administration building of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG and enables a connection between the world of work and art as desired by the client. Reinhold Würth has also implemented the world's first combination of an art museum with a work building.

The museum shows the modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries and is accessible free of charge to both employees and the public.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Würth GmbH & Co. KG company in 1995, a historical and specialist exhibition was presented: The screw between power and splendor. The thread in antiquity.

Also in 1991 the independent museum area of ​​the collection screws and threads was created .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 45 ″  E