Porcelain Worlds Leuchtenburg

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View of the Leuchtenburg from the pier of wishes

The Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg are part of the exhibition concept of the Leuchtenburg (in Seitenroda , Germany). The exhibition is dedicated to the history of porcelain and shows it in artistically staged worlds.

View of the exhibition

The permanent exhibition was conceived on behalf of the Leuchtenburg Foundation as part of the reorientation of the castle complex when the foundation was established in 2007. The new concept ties in with the local museum traditions: The Leuchtenburg District Home Museum already put its collection of old Thuringian porcelains into the 1980s the castle complex. In addition, the decision in favor of the porcelain was based on the geographical proximity of the castle to Thuringian porcelain locations and its location on Thuringian Porcelain Street . The conception of the Porcelain Worlds thus connects the history of the material with its importance for Thuringia in the past and present.

ARURA - the largest vase in the world

In terms of content, the exhibition spans from China , the country of origin , to the high-performance ceramics of the 21st century. The declared aim of the exhibition is to make visitors aware of the material they are familiar with, which accompanies them in their everyday life, and to encourage them to perceive it anew. The exhibition sees itself as a journey through the history of porcelain , narrated in the worlds The Foreign , The Riddle , The Precious and The Everyday , which are preceded by the prologue . Conceptually on the side of this journey through time is the archive of wishes and a 20 meter long skywalk , the footbridge of wishes . The visitors label a porcelain plate with a wish and let it smash at the end of the footbridge in the Saale valley.

Two records were set in porcelain for the exhibition: the largest and the smallest porcelain object. The ARURA teapot, which is just a few millimeters in size, stands opposite the - at 8 meters - largest vase in the world by artist Alim Pasht-Han .

The lodging house from the 18th century belonging to the castle complex - later used as a youth hostel - was renovated for the Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg and an extension with a skywalk was added. The design implementation of the exhibition concept was carried out by the agencies TRIAD , KOCMOC.NET and Nau2. Construction started on March 28, 2011 and the exhibition opened in two parts on April 3, 2014 and March 20, 2015.

The Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg project was financed from funds from the joint task “Improvement of the Regional Economic Structure ” (GRW) of the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society in the amount of around 7 million euros in 2009 and 1.1 million in 2014 as well as own funds from Leuchtenburg Foundation.

The concept was nominated for the European Museum Prize in 2016 . In 2014 the concept was awarded the Thuringian Tourism Prize. In 2019, the awarding of the Chinese Tourists Welcome Award in Shanghai followed .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the press kit Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  2. ^ Anne Meinzenbach: The Porcelain Worlds Leuchtenburg: on the new permanent exhibition at the Leuchtenburg; brief outline of the history and use of the castle as a museum. In: Museumsverband Thüringen (Hrsg.): Thüringer Museumshefte . tape 21 , no. 1 , 2012, p. 32-39 .
  3. ↑ Anne Meinzenbach: Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg: a castle changes its face. In: Museumsverband Thüringen (Hrsg.): Thüringer Museumshefte . tape 23 , no. 2 , 2014, p. 9-13 .
  4. ↑ The white miracle . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 20, 2017, accessed on March 29, 2018.
  5. ^ Anne Meinzenbach: ARURA. The largest vase in the world by Alim Pasht-Han . Ed .: Leuchtenburg Foundation. Seitenroda 2015.
  6. ↑ Website BCH Hermsdorf. Retrieved September 4, 2016 .
  7. ↑ TRIAD website. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Website KOCMOC.NET. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Website Nau2. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  10. ^ Stiftung Leuchtenburg: Building documentation Stiftung Leuchtenburg. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  11. ^ Website of the Thuringian Ministry for Economy, Science and Digital Society. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  12. ↑ European Museum Prize 2016 goes to Warsaw . In: Focus , April 9, 2016, accessed on March 29, 2018.
  13. ↑ Information on the Thuringian Tourism Prize 2014. Accessed on September 4, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Chinese Tourists Welcome Award 2019. Accessed October 6, 2019 .