Lauch­ham­mer Art Cast­ing Museum

The Lauch­ham­mer Art Foundry Museum was founded in 1992 and is a direct neigh­bour of the art foundry that is still in oper­a­tion today.
The foundry's model col­lec­tion is housed in a for­mer school build­ing, the "bronze school", and 2,800 cast­ing mod­els made of plas­ter or metal are on dis­play for vis­i­tors to dis­cover. This Lauch­ham­mer model col­lec­tion is listed as a unique his­tor­i­cal fund. It offers a cul­tural-his­tor­i­cal overview of the period between the end of the 18th cen­tury and today. Lauch­ham­mer's con­tri­bu­tions to cast-iron archi­tec­ture are also the sub­ject of the museum, as are cast-iron uten­sils, poterie and stoves. The his­tory of art and tech­nol­ogy are related to each other in an excit­ing way. 

The his­tory of Lauch­ham­mer as an indus­trial loca­tion began as early as 1725 with the blow­ing of the first blast fur­nace dur­ing the time when the Baroness of Löwen­dahl was pro­mot­ing her estate. Her art-lov­ing god­son Detlef Carl von Ein­siedel then made Lauch­ham­mer the cen­tre of iron art cast­ing on the basis of his col­lec­tion of antique copies. In 1784 his sculp­tors achieved a ground­break­ing suc­cess: the first fig­u­ra­tive hol­low iron cast­ing was made in Lauch­ham­mer with the cast­ing of a bac­cha­nal. From 1838, bronze was also cast in Lauch­ham­mer and well-known sculp­tors from the Berlin and Dres­den schools of sculp­ture entrusted the exe­cu­tion of their works to this foundry. In the course of its long his­tory, the foundry remained a leader in the cast­ing of mon­u­men­tal sculp­tures.
Exte­rior view of the Kun­st­guss­mu­seum in the old bronze school, Foto: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer, Lizenz: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer
Show depot Kun­st­guss­mu­seum, Foto: Stiftung Kun­st­guss­mu­seum/Jens Horn, Lizenz: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer
View of the con­struc­tion and util­ity cast­ing show­room, Foto: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer, Lizenz: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer
Iron cast­ing of a steel caster in front of the museum, sculp­tor: Rein­hold/Löhner, Foto: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer, Lizenz: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer
View of the listed model col­lec­tion in the museum, Foto: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer, Lizenz: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer
Bronze cast of the reunion, sculp­tor Fer­di­nand Lep­cke, Foto: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer, Lizenz: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer
Cast­ing demon­stra­tion in the Lauch­ham­mer art foundry, Foto: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer, Lizenz: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer
Stoves and pots from the Lauch­ham­mer art foundry, Foto: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer, Lizenz: Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer

Open­ing times

Just closed11:00 — 17:00 Time
closedMon­day
openTues­day
  • 11:00 – 17:00 Time
openWednes­day
  • 11:00 – 17:00 Time
openThurs­day
  • 11:00 – 17:00 Time
openFri­day
  • 11:00 – 17:00 Time
openSat­ur­day
  • 13:00 – 17:00 Time
openSun­day/Hol­i­day
  • 13:00 – 17:00 Time

Prices

7,00 EURadults
3,50 EURreduced
Pupils, stu­dents, unem­ployed
10,00 EURGuided tour
Adults
7,00 EURGuided tour
Chil­dren

Acces­si­bil­ity

  • Information for guests with mobility impairmentsInfor­ma­tion for guests with mobil­ity impair­ments
  • Information for guests with sensory impairmentsInfor­ma­tion for guests with sen­sory impair­ments

Infor­ma­tion on acces­si­bil­ity (only in Ger­man)

Com­fort-Infor­ma­tio­nen

Address

Kun­st­guss­mu­seum Lauch­ham­mer
Schaude­pot Bronzeschule
Freifrau-von-Löwen­dal-Straße 3
01979 Lauch­ham­mer-Ost

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