Permanent Exhibition

The permanent exhibition of the Ostpreußisches Landesmuseum (East Prussian Regional Museum) is spread over 5 floors and about 1500 square meters. It is dedicated to the four hundred-year-old German culture and history of that region.

 

 

Rudolf Eichstädt: Luise und Napoleon in Tilsit (1807), Öl, um 1895

NATIONAL HISTORY

About Prußen, Teutonic Knights, dukes and kings

 

Starting with prehistory, the story of East Prussia is told over two floors, concentrating on the time from the conquest by the German Order to the flight and expulsion in 1945.

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Diorama Elchwald

NATURAL HISTORY

Land and landscape, history of hunting and forestry

 

Even today, travellers still marvel at the countryside and the flora and fauna of former East Prussia.

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Alfred Partikel, Haus am See, Öl, 1943

PAINTING, GRAPHICS

Käthe Kollwitz, Lovis Corinth, Eduard Bischoff

 

Some very distinguished artists were born in East Prussia; many were strongly influenced by the Königsberg Academy of Arts. Several painters, for example members of the artists' colony in Nidden, were inspired by the East Prussian landscape and architecture as well.

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Georg Fuhg, Büste Immanuel Kant, getönter Gips, 1958

INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Kant, J.-G. Herder, J.G. Hamann, E.T.A. Hoffmann, H. Ahrendt

 

East Prussia produced many great minds and philosophers which are still famous around the world today.

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Bernsteinkästchen, wohl Danzig, um 1690

ARTS AND CRAFTS

Amber, silver, pottery

 

Great works of art were created by East Prussia's talented goldsmiths, especially in Königsberg. The Majolika-Werkstatt (Majolika Workshop) in Cadinen is also well-known.

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AGRICULTURE

Trakehnen, Ermländer, Kurenkähne (Curonian barges), and Tilsiter

 

Country life, agriculture and fishing were socially and economically important for East Prussia.

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THE BALTIC GERMANS

Squires, merchants and parsons in Estland (Estonia), Kurland (Courland), and Livland (Livonia)

 

The museum is currently expanding and creating a Baltic-German department. We can already offer you a small glimpse.

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