The German Leather Museum (''Deutsches Ledermuseum''), located in
Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany, is one of the largest leather museums in the world. It has a wide variety of leather items, including some exhibits, which are believed to be more than 3,000 years old. It was founded by
Hugo Eberhardt
Hugo Eberhardt (2 May 1874, Furtwangen im Schwarzwald − 8 April 1959) was a German Architect.
Biography
Eberhardt started his career as a ship interior architect for Norddeutscher Lloyd, After working in Kos as an archeologist for a German ...
in 1917.
The museum has three wings, namely, the ''German Shoe Museum'', the ''Museum for Applied Art'' and the ''Ethnology Museum''.
The museum has a number of leather items on display including shoes, saddles, bookcases, photo albums, leather furniture, and toys.
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Museumsufer
Museumsufer (Museum Embankment) is the name of a landscape of museums in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, lined up on both banks of the river Main or in close vicinity. The centre is the historic art museum Städel. The other museums were added, partly ...
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Museums in Offenbach am Main
Decorative arts museums in Germany
Shoe museums
Leather museums
Museums established in 1917
1917 establishments in Germany
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