smow Journal Logo
Tag: State Archaeology Museum
2 stories found
Tod & Ritual - Kulturen von Abschied und Erinnerung, Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz
Chemnitz Creative | 16.11.2017

Tod & Ritual - Kulturen von Abschied und Erinnerung @ Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz

The old adage that the only certainties in life are death and taxes has become (more than) a little passé of late. However even the accountants and investment bankers cannot, yet, avoid death. With the exhibition Tod & Ritual - Kulturen von Abschied und Erinnerung the Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz, smac, explore the historical and cultural traditions and rituals of that last remaining timeless, universal, and utterly inescapable phenomenon. Tod & Ritual - Kulturen von

read more
Staatlichen Museums für Archäologie Chemnitz smac
Architecture | 15.05.2014

(smow) blog compact: New State Archaeology Museum in Chemnitz Opens

When Erich Mendelsohn's new Schocken department store opened in Chemnitz in 1930 Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst, one of the leading architecture periodicals of the age, were unsparing in their praise "With his new Schocken department store in Chemnitz Erich Mendelsohn has achieved a new peak in his creativity", they announced.1 With the conversion of Mendelsohn's construction to the new Staatlichen Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz - the State Archaeology Museum in Chemnitz - the responsible

read more