Thousandfold happiness
Private collections at the museum29th Sep. 2010 – 30th Jan. 2011
Opening: Tuesday, 28th September, 6:00pm
Collecting pieces of art, items from nature and science or every-day, frequently bizarre objects has always fascinated man. For example, one of the most important Saxon collectors was Elector Augustus the Strong. The collections established by him are famous all over the world, even today.
Collecting is a passion, collecting is educational, collecting makes people happy and, yet, collecting frequently makes people lonely – and many other views regarding the subject of “collecting” could be cited. In many cases, collectors obtain their objects in a painstaking process spanning years. They are experts in the field in which they collect and even museums benefit from their wealth of knowledge. And it is hard to imagine the multitude of things that are, and were collected: Orange paper which was once used to wrap expensive exotic fruit, cigar labels and boxes, advertising signs, advertising stamps, postage stamps, postcards, photographs, wafers, albums and friendship books, decorated letter boxes, Zuckertüten (large, decorated paper cone filled with sweets, traditionally given to German children on their first day at school), Easter eggs, Christmas tree ornaments, dolls, teddy bears, tin toys, toy trains, cutlery, porcelain and stoneware jars, miniatures, graphics, buttons and much more. This exhibition enables private collectors from Leipzig to present their treasures so that the museum’s visitors can share their “thousandfold happiness“.
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