Swabian Nativity Museum
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The Swabian Nativity Museum is located in the former Jesuit college in Mindelheim .
history
The museum, opened in 1989 and redesigned in 2018, offers an overview of the development of the world of images around the childhood and passion of Jesus Christ in the Swabian and Bavarian regions.
With around 50 nativity scenes and a total of 230 exhibits from the Middle Ages (around 1300) to the present, the development of nativity art can be traced. Devotional and reverse glass pictures, paintings , graphics , wax sticks , life-size sculptures from Mindelheim's churches and chapels as well as smaller devotional objects from southern Germany from the 15th century to the 20th century are on display. Sculptures of the Madonna, panel paintings and graphics refer to the pictorial tradition from which the later nativity scenes were drawn. Numerous carved or wax figures of the baby Jesus , the so-called Fatschenkinder , and Christmas cribs from churches and private houses from the 18th to the 20th century give an overview of the range of forms in Swabian-Bavarian crib art.
Representations of the suffering and death of Jesus Christ range from the entry into Jerusalem to the ascension .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 46.7 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 6.7 ″ E