by Museum | Mar 5, 2021 | special exhibitions
A fascinating addition to our permanent exhibition There is an abundance of well-known movie productions featuring puppets as their main characters. These animation movies use a vast array of puppet types, some are covered with fabric, others are made out of modeling...
by Museum | Mar 5, 2021 | special exhibitions
The Augsburger Puppet Theatre and how it all began As a child, Walter Oehmichen (1901–1977) is already into theatre and his visit to a marionette theatre in 1936 turns out to be a key experience. The second one takes place during WWII: with his very first marionette,...
by Museum | Mar 5, 2021 | special exhibitions
Exhibition to the 4th Puppet Theatre Festival Lübeck, 18 September – 13 November 2016 Fascinating puppet designers of today are the focal point of this year’s autumn exhibition. Works by Kristiane Balsevicius, Jürgen Maaßen, Michaela Bartoňová, Christian Werdin,...
by Museum | Mar 5, 2021 | special exhibitions
June 5, 2016 – September 4, 2016 As one of the most important texts in Italian literature, The Adventures of Pinocchio is the foundation upon which all stories involving moving figures are based. Indeed, when Carlo Collodi (1826 – 1890) published the novel in...
by Museum | Mar 5, 2021 | special exhibitions
November 13, 2015 – April 10, 2016 For the first time, the Museum of Theatre Puppets displays a photo exhibition. It features the French photographer Christophe Loiseau with his series “Manipulated Portraits”. In this series, the artist has collaborated with...
by Museum | Mar 5, 2021 | special exhibitions
Special exhibition April 6th-June 9th, 2014 Adolph Friedländer – king of lithography People, animals and sensations – in a time without movie theaters, public broadcasting or television, posters were the most modern and effective means of mass advertising....
by Museum | Mar 5, 2021 | special exhibitions
A Finland Institute circulating exhibition:Opening on Sunday, November 17 at 11:30 a.m. t is a lovable, eerie, and exciting world, Jannson writes in The Moomins and the Great Flood which was first published in 1945. This winter, our museum’s join-in...
by Museum | Mar 5, 2021 | special exhibitions
5 November – 30 December 2017 For the 35th anniversary of the Museum of Theatre Puppets, we show some of the highlights from the largest continent on earth. We make our way on a voyage – not just through the Asian collection, which is also part of the permanent...
by Charlotta Becker | Mar 4, 2021 | A look at the Kolk construction site, Interviews
Dr. Margrit Christensen has been a building researcher in Lübeck for over 40 years. She shares her unique knowledge of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lübeck’s Old Town Island as a non-fiction author in her book “Small Houses in Lübeck” and...
by Silke Technau | Mar 2, 2021 | A look at the Kolk construction site
Admittedly, the Slavic settlement with fortifications in the north already existed. Some Slavs still settled there, but the castle was dilapidated and abandoned. Count Adolf II of Schauenburg had seen this coming: A stone hill and a navigable river leading to the...
