Museum of Bread and Art
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| place | Ulm , Salzstadelgasse 10 |
| opening | 1955 |
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Eiselen Foundation
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| management |
Director Isabel Greschat
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-135319 |
The Museum Bread and Art - Forum World Nutrition , known as the Museum of Bread Culture until 2018 , is a knowledge museum in Ulm that comprehensively presents the importance of grain , bread and culture for the development of mankind. This includes natural, technical and social-historical aspects of bread making as well as the understanding of bread as a symbol for life in the Judeo-Christian world of ideas. Particular emphasis is placed on dealing with the shortage of bread and food in the past and present. High-ranking works of art from the 15th to the 21st century show how deeply and multilayered the motif of bread or grain is anchored in our culture.
history
The museum was founded as the German Bread Museum in 1955 by the entrepreneur Willy Eiselen (1896–1981) and his son Hermann Eiselen (1926–2009). The edition of the book 6000 Years of Bread in the 1950s was the reason that the family of manufacturers turned to this topic. The museum has been located in the middle of Ulm's old town since the 1990s in a historic building from 1592. The building in the Renaissance style according to plans and under the direction of the builders Caspar Schmid and Matthäus Gaiser with a portal by the stonemason Claus Bauhofer initially served as a Grain magazine, there was a warehouse for salt on the ground floor . The house was later given the official name of Salzstadel and served as a warehouse for grain, salt and other goods until the beginning of the 19th century. After that it was used as an ammunition and weapons store and even as a barracks until 1991 . Finally, the bread museum , which had previously been established elsewhere, moved to the Salzstadel in 2002, the management remained with the Eiselens, who had founded the father and son Eiselen Foundation in Ulm . They named the collection the Museum of Bread Culture and pursued the aim of making the importance of bread clear to people. After a renovation phase (September 2018 to summer 2019) the museum reopened on July 5, 2019 and has been called Museum Bread and Art ever since .
Duration
overview
The comprehensive collection contains around 20,000 objects from different eras and many parts of the world related to bread and nutrition . These include objects from handicrafts and technology, paintings, sculptures and objects from religious contexts, relics of the early advanced cultures of the Mediterranean region (Egyptians, Greeks, Romans), but also the rice cultures of Asia and the corn cultures of Latin America.
performance
Written and pictorial evidence and memorabilia convey an idea of the mostly invisible, but constantly threatening danger of hunger in human history. The current world food situation is also discussed.
Around 700 exhibits form a permanent exhibition on 1,150 square meters on three floors of the Ulmer Salzstadel on the basic topics of grain and grain cultivation , the technical history of grinding and baking and the representation of the baker's and miller's trade in the guilds.
A special feature of the collection is that numerous works of art are included. The painting of the 17th century with religious and profane works by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. J. , Jan Flegel or Frans Francken one focus. Socially critical works by outstanding artists such as Ernst Barlach , Max Beckmann , Georg Grosz , Käthe Kollwitz and Pablo Picasso are just as prominent . After all, the museum preserves a considerable collection of contemporary works , which shows the extent to which artists such as Man Ray , Salvador Dalí , Joseph Beuys and Markus Lüpertz have dealt with the subject of bread and nutrition.
For your own exploration, an audio guide in several languages or in a format suitable for children can be borrowed from the museum , but guided tours can also be ordered or one of the guided tours offered regularly.
literature
- Hermann Eiselen (Ed.): For the sake of bread: 50 years of the Museum of Bread Culture . Ulm: Father and Son Eiselen Foundation, 2005. ISBN 3-00-016638-6 .
- Hermann Eiselen (ed.): Bread culture . Cologne: DuMont Verlag, 1995. ISBN 3-7701-34001 .
- Hermann Eiselen: The modern age of the bakery. A journey through its history from 1860-2005 . Bochum: BackMedia Verlagsgesellschaft, 2006. ISBN 3-9808146-2-9 .
- Heinrich Eduard Jacob : Six Thousand Years of Bread. Its Holy and Unholy History . Garden City / New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1944. New York: Lyons & Burford, 1997; Foreword: Lynn Alley. ISBN 1-55821-575-1 / New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2007; Foreword: Peter Reinhart. ISBN 1-60239-124-6 .
- Heinrich Eduard Jacob: Six thousand years of bread . Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 1954 (2nd edition 1956).
See also
Web links
- Museum of Bread and Art
- Museum of Bread Culture, formerly the German Bread Museum on www.health-speisen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Oberschwaben's sights: Museum of Bread and Art. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Information on the history of the museum building according to the city information board, seen and photographed in May 2019.
Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '3.4 " N , 9 ° 59" 24.3 " E