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Outstanding focus of the Museum Flensburg is the mountain furniture collection, acquired by the Flensburg furniture manufacturer and museum director Henry Sauermann (1842-1904). With over 900 exhibits, it is one of the largest of its kind in Germany. In point of arts and crafts, Sauer man with a sure sense of quality in the second half of the 19th Century, a collection of historical furniture and Schleswig-carved furniture pieces from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century built. With it, he pursued primarily an educational goal: Furniture should a formative effect on his journeymen and apprentices, as the craft was on the course of industrialization in decline.
Sauer's private collection was in 1876 as a basis for an industrial museum on municipal property. be based on the Museum Hill - named in 1997 Heinrich Sauermann House - 1903 was the newly-built museum building. Run dgang durch die Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte des Möbels von der Gotik bis zum Klassizismus." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The furniture collection is a chronological tour through the art and cultural history of furniture from Gothic to Classicism. The start is very rare medieval wall fixed cabinets with rich carvings, and only in northern Germany known "Schenk Schieven" fold-down with their serving. Also represented are Dutch furniture, which point to the intensive trade relations Schleswig-Holstein and the Netherlands. Ornate chests and upper-class "lockers" bear witness to the wealth and ambition of their former owners. The collection of furniture is complemented by rich objects of art and cultural history. The museum has extensive holdings of European porcelain manufactories and Schleswig-Holstein and Dutch earthenware, also has a rich collection of glass, silver and other materials. Run dgang, beginnend im Klassizismus, bis zur Gegenwart fort." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In Hans-Christiansen-house is the Tour, starting in classicism, to the present continuous. Uniquely, the sumptuous furniture are integrated into the gallery.
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Museumsberg Flensburg
Museumsberg 1
24937 Flensburg (Germany)
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