Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts

The Grassi Museum for Applied Arts in Leipzig is a city institution. It is (according to the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin) the second oldest arts and crafts museum in Germany; its collections are among the most important in Europe.

Collections

The museum collects objects of European and non- European arts and crafts - from antiquity to the present. One focus is the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s. Overall, the museum has over 90,000 objects.

Moreover, there is a library of about 60,000 bibliographic units, more than 50,000 sheets of the graphical collection and about 75,000 photographs.

History

The museum was opened in the inter alia, by Fritz von Harck as arts and crafts museum in the old administration building in 1874 by a club Leipzig citizens, "Society of Friends of the Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig ."

In 1895, greatly increasing the collection moved to the Old Grassi Museum on the Place Royal (now Wilhelm-Leuschner -Platz, building the city library). Since the year 1904, the city of Leipzig is a carrier of the museum.

Since 1926, the Museum of Decorative Arts is located in the New Grassi Museum on Locust Place. It initially used about 9,000 square meters.

During the Second World War, the museum building was badly damaged, the outsourced collections, however, remained largely intact. In 1950, the Museum of Decorative Arts was renamed the Museum of Arts and Crafts.

From 1981 to 1994 could be shown because of the poor condition no permanent exhibitions more. From 2001 to 2006, the museum building was extensively renovated. In 2005, the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Museum of Applied Arts was renamed.

An extensive refurbishment and modernization of the Museum of Applied Arts opened in late 2007 with a new permanent exhibition. Of the three areas is " antiquity to historicism " to see since the end of 2007, " Asian Art. Impulses for Europe " since January 2010, " Art Nouveau to the Present " at the beginning of March 2012. Besides invite special exhibitions and the annual end of October held Grassimesse for a visit.