Museum Würth, Modern art museum in Künzelsau, Germany
Museum Würth is an art museum in Künzelsau housed within the company's modern administrative building, showcasing works by international artists. The exhibition spaces display rotating collections of contemporary and modern artworks in generous, thoughtfully designed surroundings.
Reinhold Würth opened the museum in 1991 to house a private collection he had built over more than fifty years. Architects Siegfried Müller and Maja Djordjevic-Müller built it from 1989 to 1991 inside the Würth Group's administrative building, the first combination worldwide of an art museum with a working office building. In 1995 Christo and Jeanne-Claude turned the museum into a walk-in interior installation. A second building, Museum Würth 2 by David Chipperfield, opened in 2020.
The collection grew from Reinhold Würth's private holdings, assembled over more than fifty years, and two to three temporary exhibitions are shown each year. In 2003 the museum acquired the princely Fürstenberg collection, with panels by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop; the old paintings hang in the Gothic Johanniterkirche in Schwäbisch Hall.
The museum is situated within the company's business complex and is best reached by car, as it sits in a commercial area away from the city center. Exhibitions rotate several times a year, so visiting at different seasons offers the chance to see fresh artistic presentations.
Since 1991 the museum has included the Museum für Schrauben und Gewinde, a collection devoted to screws and threads. It sits in the same building complex as the art galleries, so visitors pass from paintings to fasteners under one roof.
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