Coburg Doll Museum
The Coburg Doll Museum or Dolls Museum Coburg is a doll - and toys - Museum in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg in Bavaria .
history
The museum is located in Coburg's old town in 33 rooms of the listed residential and commercial building Rückertstraße 2–3 from the 18th / 19th century, whose origins go back to a monastery from the 15th century. It is named after the poet Friedrich Rückert , who lived from 1820 to 1826 in a small oriel apartment in the house where he also met his future wife Luise Wiethaus-Fischer. Their first children were born in the attic, which is now used by the museum as a depot.
In July 1987, the museum was opened by Carin and Hans Lossnitzer with their private collection and dolls they had created as the foundation. As a doll artist, she was awarded the "Doty Award" in 1991, the highest distinction for doll art in America, and in 2008 the "Max Oscar Arnold Prize" for her life's work. At that time the museum had around 1000 dolls with accessories, a good 50 dollhouses and dollhouses. With the purchase on May 1, 2007, the city of Coburg took over the sponsorship of the museum, which developed into a scientifically managed museum in the following years. A depot was built on the 3rd floor and a room for museum education was set up.
After a fire in downtown Coburg in May 2012, the damage to the building caused by embers and extinguishing water had to be repaired. The exhibits could be evacuated in time. In the course of the renovation, the exhibition was redesigned and the museum reopened in sections until the entire exhibition area was accessible again from May 2015.
The collection
The collection includes over 1000 historical dolls, dollhouses and doll accessories from the years 1800 to 1960 from Europe. Two thirds of the dolls come from the toy region of North Franconia - South Thuringia. According to its own information, the museum has the largest collection of tea puppets in Europe with 300 copies , which is constantly on display.
In various departments, the upbringing of children in the middle class of the 19th century is shown using toys, the development from character dolls to today's play dolls, as well as materials and manufacturers in the region between Coburg and Gotha. In addition to special features such as miniature porcelain, tea dolls, toy trains , doll kitchens with functional Esbit herds, doll machines, wind-up toys and artist dolls from the museum's founder, historical dolls and quirks from the Parisian company Gaultier, dolls by Schildkröt , Käthe Kruse , Kämmer & Reinhardt and Hausser are also on display. The “Lilli” mannequin on display from 1955–1964 by the Hausser and 3-M-Puppen company is the model for the Barbie doll. The museum houses a total of 4600 objects (as of 2017)
Web links
- Coburg Doll Museum
- Frankenschau: Barbie in Wonderland: 30 years of the Coburg Puppet Museum , Sunday, March 12, 2017, BR television, min. 29.00-34.00
Individual evidence
- ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
- ↑ City history of the city of Coburg: On the history of the houses in Rückertstraße - Coburg Puppenmuseum . Retrieved March 29, 2017
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Puppenmuseum damaged by extinguishing water on March 29, 2012. Accessed on March 29, 2017
- ^ City of Coburg: History of the Museum . Retrieved March 29, 2017
- ^ City of Coburg: Tea doll around 1920 . Retrieved March 29, 2017
- ↑ Coburg.Bayern-online.de: Coburg Doll Museum . Retrieved March 29, 2017
- ^ City of Coburg: New permanent exhibition . Retrieved March 29, 2017
- ↑ State Office for the Non-State Museums in Bavaria: Coburg Puppet Museum ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 29, 2017
- ^ City of Coburg: Marotte around 1880 . Retrieved March 29, 2017
- ^ City of Coburg: Schildkröt dolls around 1950 . Retrieved March 29, 2017
- ^ City of Coburg: Museum Education . Retrieved March 29, 2017
- ^ Neue Presse Coburg: Free to the Puppenmuseum from January 27, 2017. Accessed on March 29, 2017
- ^ City of Coburg: Lilli "1955-64 . Retrieved on March 29, 2017
