The State Museum left, undergoing a facelift, in the Domplatz.
I'm a few days behind with this blog, so this is news of a visit to the State Museum last Sunday. The special exhibition about 1913, runs together with the exhibition in the "Schloss Museum," about the marriage of Viktoria, Kaiser Wilhelm ll daughter, with the Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg. There marriage was to be the last gathering together of European monarchy before the outbreak of WW1, and the collapse of the German monachy in 1918.
"1913 - Brunswick between monarchy and modernity."
It was a lively time in the early 20th century, with changes in the labour movement and the monarchy, women's suffrage and imperialism, a last royal wedding and a funeral. The exhibition examined the political, social, economic and cultural developments in Brunswick and the German Empire at the turn of the century. Starting from the wedding of a daughter of the Kaiser, with a Guelph Duke in 1913, it was a time of massive changes, with developments in mass production, the automobile industry and the electricification of home and the workplace.
Doll´s House Kitchen, with mass produced utensils.
The exhibition showed snippets of the life style of the people of Brunswick, and the new scientific developments, that made life easier for everyone. The invention of the electric light bulb, must have been a wonder of modern science when first switched on! The automobile was to be seen for the first time on the streets and it was possible to contact anybody very quickly via the telegraph. The photos here show just a few things that took my eye, and as there was so much to see.
Tight Corset, not really much of a modern development.
It´s no wonder the ladies fainted while wearing such undergarments. Dressed in this garment, an evening out eating, drinking and dancing must have been an exhausting marathon.
German officer´s helmet for hot climes.
Several typically German helmets were on display, this one wore by an officer in a warm German outpost somewhere.
Boys sailor suit with model, cast metal ships.
Ladies swim suit, ca 1920
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