"Über Tage - unter Tage. Der Ofenkaulberg im Siebengebirge".

Siebengebirgsmuseum, Königwinter

Exhibition Duration: March 30, 2021 to January 16, 2022

What looks here like the mines of Moria from Lord of the Rings is part of the underground labyrinth in the Ofenkaulberg in the Siebengebirge. The special exhibition in the Siebengebirgsmuseum deals with the Ofenkaulberg (Kaulen=pits), a ridge located between Hirschberg, Petersberg and Wolkenburg, which is especially known for its extensive tunnel system. Trachyttuff was mined here for centuries for the construction of baking ovens. The exhibition documents the traces left by surface and underground mining and is the result of the interdisciplinary research project „Zeugen der Landschaftsgeschichte im Siebengebirge“. The cooperation partners of the Siebengebirgsmuseum were the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) and the Biologische Station im Rhein-Sieg-Kreis e. V.

Our loans in the Siebengebirgsmuseum, Königswinter:

• Allgemeines Organ für Handel und Gewerbe und damit verwandte Gegenstände / Weekly supplement/1.1836, call number: RHPER502-1.1836 from our collection Rheinland
• Carl August Menzel: Handbuch für den Bau der Feuerungsanlagen für häusliche, technische und gewerbliche Zwecke, 1875, call number: V47/77

"Gelehrtes Duisburg"

Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg

Exhibition period: June 2021 - January 2022

DUISBURG IN THE MAELSTROM OF SOCIAL UPHEAVAL
The 16th century was marked by new revolutionary ideas, such as humanism, which called for people to think and act on their own responsibility and to break away from the religious domination of the Catholic Church. In the midst of this changing world, the Lower Rhine developed into a center of attraction for minds and geniuses, primarily from the "Spanischen Niederlanden". On the Lower Rhine, the humanistically educated Duke Wilhelm V of Jülich-Kleve-Berg promises religious tolerance to the inhabitants of his domain. This and the planned founding of a university bring scientists, philosophers, writers and theologians to Duisburg. Here, a circle of intellectual greats emerges, who from then on have such a formative influence on the city that it was at times referred to as "duisburgum doctum", the "gelehrte Duisburg".

THE LEARNED DUISBURG - THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE WORKS
But who are they, the minds and geniuses of the time who gather in Duisburg? They are doctors and diplomats, prince educators and school principals, poets and philosophers, jurists and reformers. They are all humanists committed to education and intellectual freedom. The most prominent among them is certainly Gerhard Mercator. Others may not be so familiar today, such as Georg Cassander, who argued for reform of the Catholic Church, Johann Weyer, who campaigned against witch hunts, Cornelius Wouters, who knows what Duisburg had to do with the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, or Johanna Otho, who wrote artful poetry. The exhibition presents a network of scholars that turned the world upside down.
(Source: Dr. Andrea Gropp, Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg, flyer for the exhibition).

We are pleased to have been able to contribute two loans to the exhibition "Scholarly Duisburg":

•  Georg Cassander: Consultatio de articulis religionis inter catholicos et protestantes controversis, 1577, WFIV25
•  Georg Cassander: Traditionum veteris ecclesiae et sanctorum patrum defensio adversus Io. Calvini importunas criminationes, 1565, T10/1530.

Exhibition Catalog: Mercator's neighbors - a network of scholars in the 16th century, 2020, call number: 45A4476

Geld und Glaube

RELíGIO – Westfälisches Museum für religiöse Kultur

Exhibition duration from 02.05.2021 - 29. 08.2021

"Ein Jahrtausende altes Spannungsfeld: Die Wechselausstellung präsentiert, diskutiert und hinterfragt Aspekte und Zusammenhänge von Geld und Glauben. "

The focus of the temporary exhibition is on Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Holy Scriptures already contain commandments and prohibitions on the subject of money: Not only charity plays a role there, but there are also rules on the prohibition of interest. In addition to religious teachings, the exhibition also takes a look at religious practices associated with money: The Sunday donation in church is presented as well as rituals for festivals and celebrations. Nor does the idea of money and wealth stop at ideas of the afterlife. Coins as grave goods contrast with the last shirt, which is known to have no pockets.
(Quelle: https://museum-telgte.de/portfolio/geld-und-glaube/, Stand 07.06.2021)

Our loan to this exhibition:

The Jewish National and University Library ; ed. by Malachi Beit-Arié: The Worms Maḥzôr : Ms. Heb. 4 ̊781/1, 1985, 1P349-1/3

Ausstellungskatalog:  Geld und Glaube in Judentum, Christentum und Islam, Münster 2021, 19B7105

"Piktogramme, Lebenszeichen, Emojis: Die Gesellschaft der Zeichen"

Leopold Hoesch Museum & Papiermuseum Düren

Exhibition period: 24.09.2020 - 07.02.2021

"Die Ausstellung geht der Frage nach, mit welchen Überlegungen, Zielsetzungen und Hoffnungen die Entwicklung moderner Bildzeichensprachen einschließlich der Emojis verbunden ist." (Pressemitteilung zur Ausstellung)

Wir sind in der Ausstellung mit dem Zeitschriftenband "Der Ziegelbrenner" von 1917 -1921 aus der Sammlung Otto Wolff vertreten. Signatur:  WOLF.G572