Smoker's Museum
 The historic dye works building serves as a museum. |
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| place | Cran number |
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private folk art museum
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| opening | April 28, 2012 |
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Decorative arts Lenk & Sohn
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The 1st Smoker's Museum is a museum in Cranzahl in the Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony . It is the only one of its kind in Germany and therefore bears the addition of the first .
history
The museum was set up in the premises of a former dye works in 2011 and officially opened in the spring of the following year. It shows over 2000 different smoking figures from the 20th and 21st centuries on 200 m² . The figures on display, including vehicles for incense candles, come from various manufacturers throughout the Ore Mountains, some of them as loans from private individuals, they give an overview of the history of the incense smoker. Different styles, collections and figure types can be seen. The smallest Incense is about 5 centimeters , the largest about 80 centimeters high. In addition, the museum has a small collection of historical and modern incense cones and some tools for making them.
Events
On December 1st, 2012, the 1st Smoker's Festival took place in the museum . In order to expand the inventory of exhibits for the museum, there was an exchange campaign between smokers “old for new”. Because of the great interest shown by visitors, the museum management has been holding such a festival once a year since then.
For 2014, where the 3rd Smoker's Festival will take place on November 29th, the attractions include pushing the pyramid and cutting the tunnel with the Cranzahl trombone choir , handicrafts for children and demonstrations.
exhibition
Incense smoker
The exhibits are clearly arranged according to groups, i.e. hunter and forest workers, night watchmen, railway workers, miners, etc.
Manufacturing
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Raachermannl Museum. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
- ^ The 1st Smoker's Museum. Tourismusverband Erzgebirge eV, accessed on March 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Something very special is on offer in Cranzahl. Smoker's Museum / Press, November 28, 2012, accessed on July 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Christof Heyden: Exchange campaign for Qualmguschen and Co. (No longer available online.) Www.erzgebirge.tv, archived from the original on January 3, 2014 ; accessed on April 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Christof Heyden: Old versus new: Museum is looking for smokers. In: www.sz-online.de. November 30, 2012, accessed March 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Flyer from October 2014: 3rd Smoker's Festival
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 46.5 ″ N , 12 ° 59 ′ 19.4 ″ E