Mindelheim Textile Museum
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The Mindelheim Textile Museum is located in the former Jesuit college in Mindelheim .
history
The textile museum goes back to a foundation in 1984 by Hilda Sandtner (* 1919), a professor at Augsburg University , who donated her considerable private collection of textiles and art objects of all kinds to the city of Mindelheim . In 1986 the Textile Museum was opened on the second floor of the former Jesuit College and, together with the Swabian Crib Museum and the South Swabian Archaeological Museum , is jointly sponsored by the city of Mindelheim, the Unterallgäu district and the Swabian district .
Collection holdings and presentation
It houses one of the largest publicly accessible collections of paraments and other ecclesiastical textile treasures, clothes and robes as well as lace and fans .
The collection is presented in three sections:
The “Clothes make the man” section shows the development of fashion, from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century. Dresses, men's suits, children's clothes and valuable robes as well as accessories from the respective period are on display . In a long row there are costume figurines with sweeping robes made of precious fabrics. On the opposite wall are portraits showing people from the respective epoch. These portraits make it possible to take a look at the current understanding of fashion. This is followed by an extensive collection of tips and subjects in a cabinet. Around 260 objects can be seen in this room: for example bobbin lace, tulle and needle lace, lace on dresses and scarves as well as numerous compartments. The latter were an important fashion accessory in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The “Home Decor from 1850 to 1920” section shows textiles from the early days . In six living rooms, furnishings are lavishly staged with original furniture, textile and other accessories in order to recreate the mostly lost spatial works of art of that time. The focus is on embroidery of all kinds. These include handicrafts by women of the upper social classes as well as work by professional embroiderers.
The third section, "The Shine of Precious Paraments" shows the extensive inventory of magnificent ecclesiastical vestments. The oldest textile dates from the 15th century, the youngest from the end of the 20th century. The purpose of this section is to demonstrate the use and importance of textiles used for worship by the Catholic Church. You can see chasuble, dalmatic , precious fabrics with gold and silver threads from different regions. An altar setting, the objects of which come partly from the Three Kings altar in the pre-baroque parish church of St. Stephen, illustrates the use of liturgical textiles and vestments.
literature
- City guide of Mindelheim
- Museum booklet of the Mindelheim museums
- Museum administration and cultural office (ed.): Textile Museum. Sandtner Foundation . Fashion, art, craft. Mindelheim 2018 ( mindelheim.de [PDF; 2.2 MB ; accessed on June 17, 2018] Flyer).
- Unconditional in their conception of artistic work . Gertrud Roth-Bojadzhiev about Hilda Sandtner. In: The Senate of the University of Augsburg (ed.): UniPress . Journal of the University of Augsburg. No. 1 , January 2004, ISSN 0937-6496 , p. 44–46 ( uni-augsburg.de [PDF; 1.3 MB ; accessed on June 17, 2018]).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 46.7 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 6.7 ″ E