Artifacts from the Karlovy Vary Local History Museum Have Found a New Home
For over 70 years, a large collection of everyday items and valuables belonging to displaced persons was housed in Wiesbaden at the Heimatstube der Karlsbader, most recently on Oranienstraße. Now the exhibits have found a new home. Shortly before the closure, the Wiesbaden premises were preserved in a virtual format and can now be accessed at any time.
In 1953, the state capital of Wiesbaden established a sister-city relationship with the city of Karlsbad. A key component of this partnership was the provision of space for a museum. Everyday items and valuables, pictures, books, and documents—which people were able to take with them when they were expelled from their homeland or acquired later—were incorporated into a large collection that the Karlsbad Homeland Association soon presented in Wiesbaden.
The collection was now dissolved this past spring. Many items were transferred to the Sudeten German Museum in Munich. Objects made of Sprudelstein, Sprudel mugs, porcelain, traditional costumes, accessories, jewelry, as well as prints, paintings, and photographs that evoke life and culture in their former homeland have thus found a new home and will be preserved for the future.
In the run-up to the move, the museum had a virtual tour of the rooms created. The virtual tour is available here: https://www.sudetendeutsches-museum.de/ausstellungen/heimatstuben/ (opens in a new tab)
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