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Caylee Coover 3.9.12. German y. Das Kartoffelmuseum ?. When most people think of museums or art they naturally think of sculptures. Think again… This is a Potato Museum. Potato Cont. The Potato Museum, an institution of Eckart Otto Foundation, was opened in 1996 in Munich.
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Caylee Coover 3.9.12 Germany
Das Kartoffelmuseum? • When most people think of museums or art they naturally think of sculptures. • Think again… • This is a Potato Museum
Potato Cont. • The Potato Museum, an institution of Eckart Otto Foundation, was opened in 1996 in Munich. • It shows a diverse collection of exhibits on the subject of potato. • It is the world's only museum that is dedicated exclusively to the potato in art and art-historical terms.
Cont. • oil paintings, watercolors, prints, drawings, lithographs, naive glass painting, and modern graphics • everything is represented, has something to do with the potato and / or produced from their products.
cont • The reason this museum is so dedicated to the potato is because its founder was the first to produce “dried potato powder, which, with the addition of water, could be turned into mashed potatoes or other delicacies.” • Unlike other potato museums this is the only one that is dedicated to potato art and its history • Others are often based upon agricultural terms.
Sections of the museum 1.Geschichte: From the Inca gold to the people, food 2.Blüten, plants, bulbs 3.Anbau and harvest 4. Market scenes
Cont. 5. Multi-talented potato: whether jelly or adhesive tape, the potato is always there 6. Rarities collection 7. Prince food and poor people's food 8. Gallery of Modern
Germany • Germany has a rich culture • Traditionally known as "the country of poets and philosophers“ • Germany has over 5,000 art and exhibit houses!
cont • Berlin has its own Museum Island. • Altes Museum • Neues Museum • Alte Nationalgalerie • Bode-Museum • Pergamonmuseum
AltesMuseum • Greek and Roman art and sculptures • This thematically arranged exhibition includes stone sculptures, clay and bronze figures, friezes, vases, gold jewellery and silverware. • One such sculpture is the Der Betende Knabe If audio does not play click here. Then Click Der Betende Knabe
Sources • http://www.cometogermany.com/ENU/culture_and_events/art_music_culture.htm • http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objID=3 • YouTube.com • http://www.kartoffelmuseum.de/museumseite.html#