The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (''Museum of Art and Design Hamburg'') is a museum of

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, applied and

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. It is located centrally, near the Hauptbahnhof.

History

The museum was founded in 1874, following the models of the

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in London, the Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna, and the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin. In 1877 it moved to its current premises, a building on the Steintorplatz built from 1873 to 1875.The History of the Museum
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Collections

These include: * Historic keyboard instruments:

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spinet A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ. Harpsichords When the term ''spinet'' is used to designate a harpsichord, typically what is meant is the ''bentside spinet'', described in this ...

virginal The virginals is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Description A virginals is a smaller and simpler, rectangular or polygonal, form of harpsichord. ...

clavichord The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance music, Renaissance, Baroque music, Baroque and Classical period (music), Classical eras. Historically, it was most ...

fortepiano A fortepiano is an early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1700 up to the early 19th century. Most typically, however, it is used to ref ...

s and square pianos. * Faience and porcelain: most of the major 17th- and 18th-century

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manufacturers are represented. File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (1).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (2).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (3).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (4).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (5).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (6).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (7).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (9).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (10).JPG * Islam: the centrepiece is a collection of 71 tile fragments from the mausoleum of Buyan Kuli Chan (1348–1368) in

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. The Islam section also includes pottery, carpets and books. * Early 16th-century carpet from Lüne Abbey, displayed only once a year for a few days between

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and

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. * Furniture by Henry van de Velde and

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. * Japanese tea house and accompanying

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. * Art Nouveau: an ensemble of

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furniture and exhibits, the "Paris Room", much of it acquired at the

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in 1900. Including two greater-than-lifesized white sculptures from 1907,

faience Faience or faïence (; ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white Ceramic glaze, pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an stannous oxide, oxide of tin to the Slip (c ...

sculptures of girls by Richard Luksch, and the ''Swan Carpet'' (1897) by Otto Eckmann. * The Modern, 1914–1945: Expressionist works, including animal sculptures by Richard Haizmann, a

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wood sculpture of a woman by Ernst Heckel, works by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Ewald Mataré, and everyday objects in

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style. * Other collections include

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figurines; items from the Far East; design;Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe: Ideen sitzen. 50 Jahre Stuhldesign
''Hamburg-Magazin'', 29 September 2010. book art; graphic art; photography; and antique pottery, weaponry and statues

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