Museum of Art and Technology of the 19th Century

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The LA8 cultural center with the entrance area of ​​the museum (2009)

The Museum LA8 - Museum of Art and Technology of the 19th Century is a museum in Baden-Baden .

In biannual changing themed exhibitions it is dedicated to the interactions between art and technology in the 19th century, which was so important for Baden-Baden . The museum opened in April 2009 in the Kulturhaus LA8, the former headquarters of the International Club on Lichtentaler Allee , in the vicinity of the State Art Gallery Baden-Baden and the Museum Frieder Burda . “LA8” is an acronym for the address of the museum at Lichtentaler Allee No. 8. It is built and operated by the Grenke Foundation of Baden-Baden entrepreneur Wolfgang Grenke . The director is the art historian Matthias Winzen .

Exhibitions

  • To travel. A century on the move (April 9th ​​to September 6th, 2009)
  • Catch light. On photography in the 19th century (October 10, 2009 to March 7, 2010)
  • The pyramid from the inside. The Discovery of Ancient Egypt in the 19th Century (March 27 to August 22, 2010)
  • Daumier and his Paris. Art and technology of a metropolis (September 18, 2010 to March 20, 2011)
  • More beautiful. Living. Back then. The Invention of the Bourgeois Family in the 19th Century (April 9 to August 28, 2011)
  • Heads or Tails: The Quantification of Everything in the 19th Century (September 10, 2011 to February 26, 2012)
  • Africa with your own eyes. About exploring and dreaming about a continent (March 17th to September 2nd, 2012)
  • The golden Rhine. Knight's castles with railway connection (September 22, 2012 to March 3, 2013)
  • Types with depth. Heinrich Zille and his Berlin (March 23 to September 1, 2013)
  • Childhood. An Invention of the 19th Century (September 21, 2013 to March 9, 2014)
  • Lesser Ury and the Light (April 5 to August 31, 2014)
  • War games. Art and Propaganda before World War I (September 20, 2014 to March 1, 2015)
  • Music! The Berlin Philharmonic in the 19th century. The creation of a world orchestra (March 21 to August 30, 2015)
  • The Prussians in the west. Art, Technology and Politics in the 19th Century (September 19, 2015 to February 28, 2016)
  • Andreas Achenbach . Revolutionary and painter prince (March 19 to September 4, 2016)
  • Technical paradises. Future in 19th Century Caricature (September 24, 2016 to March 5, 2017).
  • Nature and scenery. Elegant parallel societies in the 19th century (March 25 to September 3, 2017).
  • Hans Thoma . Wanderer between the worlds (23 Sept 2017 to 4 March 2018). Catalog.

Web links

Commons : Museum of Art and Technology of the 19th Century  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 32.9 "  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 16.9"  E