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