Museums
Merseburg Castle Cultural History Museum
Special Exhibition: House and Hearth, Dear and Valuable!
In the special exhibition, the museum is showing embroidered sayings on household textiles from 1870 to 1930 from the collection of Elfi Connemann from Celle until February 11, 2024. Lorraine Mootz loaned the entire collection to the museum. We visited the exhibition on November 20th, 2023.
HANSEATIC CITY OF STENDAL - Altmärkisches Museum
SAMPLERS FROM ALTMARK AND PRIGNITZ 2.0
In December 1995 we visited the traveling exhibition “Samplers from Altmark and Prignitz” in Havelberg. As part of a joint project by the Altmark Museum Association, the historian Corrie Leitz, with the collaboration of many other museums in the Altmark and Prignitz, developed a traveling exhibition that made this beautiful part of our cultural heritage accessible to a broad public from 1995 to 1997. Following on from this, the Altmärkisches Museum is presenting this rich treasure until September 17, 2023 and enriching it with numerous “application examples”. Loans come from the museums in Osterburg, Havelberg, Genthin and Diesdorf, according to the museum's website. We barely made it and left on September 14th to Stendal. We were thankfully given permission to take photos.
Special Exhibition in the Brunsbüttel Local History Museum
Samplers and embroidery from the Angelika Salzwedel collection
On August 26, 2023 we visited the special exhibition with samplers and embroideries from the Angelika Salzwedel collection. As luck would have it, I met a nice customer. more
Visit to a Special Exhibition at the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge) Museum in Annaberg-Buchholz
Glass Beadwork. Luxury Goods from the Ore Mountains for the World
From July 2nd to October 31st, 2022, a special exhibition entitled "Glass beadwork - luxury goods from the Ore Mountains for the world" could be admired in the Ore Mountains Museum. Two days before the end, we visited Annaberg-Buchholz and saw for ourselves the pearl shine and the exclusively and lovingly produced works.
Whitework samplers from the collections of Lorraine Mootz, Margit Guerrein and Sabine Taterra-G.
Whitework samplera are often masterpieces. Worked on the finest batiste with a very fine needle and very thin threads. In Germany they were often made as final projects. A prospective needlework teacher used them to demonstrate her skills. It was only in later years that pre-printed fabrics were used. Individuality was expressed in the design of the name, initials and borders.