Description
The only specialist museum for ceramics in Thuringia was founded as early as 1880, originally as a collection of samples open to the public. As one of the oldest existing ceramics museums, it focuses on documenting Bürgel’s 450-year-old tradition of making pottery.
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Stations of this Audioguide
- 0
- Welcome
- 1
- Pottery Town
- 2
- Making Pottery
- 3
- Stoneware, Earthenware, Engobe-decorated Pottery
- 4
- Firing
- 5
- The Potters’ Guild
- 6
- Changing Times
- 7
- The Route to Art Nouveau
- 8
- Henry van de Velde and Bürgel Art Nouveau
- 9
- Art Déco and the New Objectivity
- 10
- State Regulation
- 11
- Bürgel Workshops in East Germany
- 12
- Carl Fischer and Walter Gebauer
- 13
- Bürgel Potteries Today
- 14
- Henry van de Velde: the Man and his Work in Bürgel
- 15
- The Henry van de Velde Style in Bürgel
- 99
- BONUS: A Ceramicist Talks about her Work