Pforzheim was beautiful! and it was snowing!! Not going to lie, I was pretty excited despite how cold it was.
The Jewellery Museum Pforzheim was our destination and it was well worth the walk. Seeing a museum based solely on jewellery was a little amazing. Not only did we get to see their One Hundred and One rings exhibition (spectacular!) but we also got to explore their contemporary and historical collections that were on display.
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| Jenny checking out the wall of tools. |
The contemporary collection part of a physical time line of the movements that Jewellery went through. I really liked being able to see an actual representation of the movements that were important to the development of our form of art. It's not something we get to learn about much in any of the general theory units at uni because we are usually looking at painting, sculpture and photography. We have done it in our object theory classes but this was much more specific because it was only jewellery [and not glass or ceramics].
I loved all of the ancient tribal jewellery because we got read about what jewellery was used for in various cultures and observe the parallels between those cultures and even ours. The collection was huge - donated by collectors who travelled the globe. There were pieces made for warriors, for decoration, for rank, for ceremonies, for religion. It was all intricate, handmade and so colourful!
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| Visitors stickers from the museum: an unintentional artwork on the traffic light |
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