Upper Hessian Nativity Scene Museum

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Upper Hessian Nativity Scene Museum
Data
place Ulfa (Nidda)
Art
Nativity Museum
opening 2004
management
Erica Kernstock
Website
Retablo by Maximiano Ochante from Peru with the evangelist symbols on the double doors (around 2000)

The Upper Hessian Nativity Scene Museum is a museum in Ulfa , a district of Nidda in Hesse , which houses around 200 nativity scenes from five continents of different eras and cultures.

history

The museum is a private collection founded by Erica Kernstock in 1980 and presented to the public for the first time in 2004 in a converted farm in Ulfa. The museum gained national recognition through an exhibition in the Palmengarten Frankfurt in 2009 and through reports in the media. In 2010 it was included in the Upper Hesse museum landscape and the Vogelberg / Wetterau tourist association .

exhibition

The museum shows around 120 of the 220 Christmas cribs (as of 2017) and is constantly being expanded. The basic holdings of the collection are traditional nativity scenes from the Ore Mountains, South Tyrol and Bohemia and Moravia . Through the acquisition or loan of East African and South American Christmas cribs from the Benedictine abbey in Münsterschwarzach , non-European cultural groups are included. The collection is supplemented by exhibits from Asia. In this way, a wide range of culturally different forms of representation of the biblical Christmas story is offered.

Several retablos by the Peruvian artist Maximiano Ochante Lozano can be seen. A nativity scene from Vietnam is made of paper, one from Rwanda is made of banana leaves and one from Ethiopia is made of glasses frames, and others are made of tinplate, wood, plaster, ceramics, textiles or Bohemian glass. One from Burkina Faso used welded spark plugs. The smallest nativity scene was made in Dresden from a cherry pit. A nativity scene in Pop Art style is by Hannes Glut from Tyrol and a South Tyrolean nativity scene by Ulrich Bernardi .

The oldest exhibits were made in the 19th century, the youngest in the 21st century. From Králíky (Grulich) three nativity scenes from around 1900 can be viewed. A box nativity scene from Kynšperk nad Ohří (Königsberg ad Eger) dates from the end of the 19th century. One of the rare finds is a Trebitsch crib from 1880, a flat paper crib from Třebíč with around 100 hand-painted figures. The Jerusalem nativity scene from 1925–1929 is based on the design of a Tyrolean church nativity scene from 1626.

The Nativity Scene Museum is open in the run-up to Christmas and offers guided tours by the exhibition manager. Each year the exhibition is based on a different focus.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ulfa.de: The "Upper Hessian Christmas Crib Museum" , accessed on November 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ Elke Kaltenschnee: Where God becomes man. In: Kreis-Anzeiger from November 18, 2017, accessed on December 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ Gießener Zeitung of December 4, 2014: Insider tip in Advent: The Upper Hessian Nativity Scene Museum , accessed on November 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ Kreis-Anzeiger from November 29, 2014: Collecting and Presenting , accessed on November 2, 2017.
  5. ↑ Kreis-Anzeiger of November 25, 2015: Carrying the Christmas story into the world , accessed on November 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ www.weihnachtskrippen-museum.de: Cribs from Böhmen , accessed on November 4, 2017.
  7. ↑ Wetterauer Zeitung of November 19, 2013: Erica Kernstock opens her Christmas crib museum , accessed on November 2, 2017.
  8. ^ Upper Hesse Museum Landscape , accessed on November 2, 2017.

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