Pig museum
The Pig Museum in Stuttgart is a privately run museum that deals with the art and cultural history of the pig .
history
As the “largest pig museum in the world”, the collectors and lucky pig museum, privately run by the Stuttgart restaurateur Erika Wilhelmer (* 1940) from 1989 for the first 20 years, initially in Bad Wimpfen , presented a collection of over 50,000 exhibits by the 2010s the subject of pig. Since the museum moved to the 100-year-old administration building of the former slaughterhouse in Stuttgart- Gaisburg in 2010, the exhibits have been staged on more than 800 square meters in over 27 themed rooms. The Art Nouveau building of the former slaughterhouse administration, built in 1912 according to a design by Albert Pantle , also offers the appropriate architectural ambience for an exhibition on the cultural history of the pig.
Wilhelmer runs the pig museum in the slaughterhouse and the associated catering business together with her son Michael Wilhelmer (* 1970), managing director of Wilhelmer Gastronomie GmbH in Stuttgart and since 2009 Schwabenbräu landlord on the Cannstatter Wasen .
exhibition
Domestic pigs have accompanied people for more than 9000 years and have played a decisive role in shaping their culture. It was interpreted in many different ways and seen as contradicting, on the one hand as a symbol of happiness and prosperity , on the other hand as a symbol of the physically excessive, as the epitome of stupidity, filth and greed. The pig is present in many German idioms and a multitude of shapes and materials: as a lucky charm or piggy bank, as a toy, knick-knack or everyday item. The various aspects are highlighted in almost 30 showrooms.
Room sequence: 01 butchery, 02 wild boar, 03 hunting, 04 pig laboratory, 05 ancestral gallery, 06 pigs worldwide, 07 pig Latin, 08 domestic pig, 09 all about pigs, 10 pigsty, 11 pig stuff, 12 calendar pig, 13 pig myth, 14 VIP pig, 15 Pig roll, 16 pig safe, 17 material pig, 18 piglet room, 19 mini pigs, 20 colorful sow, 21 kitchen, 22 Bad Wimpfen, 23 pig heaps, 24 pig arena, 25 pig depot, 26 sow-na, 27 art pigs and temporary exhibition.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Schweinerei leaves the Staufer city , Stimme.de, May 19, 2009
- ↑ Miss Piggy in the Schlachthof , stuttgarter newspaper, April 29, 2010
Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '8.5 " N , 9 ° 13' 11.6" E