Museum im Museum – der Vogelsaal - Dauerausstellung
In the organizer's words:
The Bamberg Bird Hall - a historical natural history cabinet and a museum within a museum.
It is rightly regarded as the most beautiful historical natural history room of this style in the world. It is a stroke of luck that this valuable monument to natural and cultural history has survived more than 200 years of eventful history in almost its original condition. Let this unique "museum within a museum" transport you to another world!
The size of the hall is impressive in itself: it covers an area of around 200 square meters and is 8 meters high. A mirrored vault with pointed caps spans the entire room. As a remnant of the former false ceiling, a gallery provides access to the cupboards on the upper floor.
On the walls of the lower floor, 15 elegant display cabinets are integrated into the surrounding, richly decorated wood paneling. Some of them are crowned by busts of famous naturalists flanked by putti. On other display cases, putti with garlands of fruit are enthroned next to urns of fire. Carved allegories of the classical elements - fire, water, earth and air - can be found as supraports above the four rounded corners of the lower level. The carvings are by the hand of the Franconian artist Georg Joseph Mutschele, who was well-known at the time.
A large, multi-part row of display cabinets stands in the middle of the room. It was only integrated into the room in the second half of the 19th century. The four pyramid or obelisk-shaped display cases, which house the hummingbird, egg and nest collections, are always considered particularly attractive. The basic color of the room is white, but the backs of the showcases are set off in vivid blue.
The white color, the interlaced ovals of the gallery balustrade, the strictly ordered patterns of the decorations and the pyramid- and obelisk-shaped display cases with their crowning flaming urns are attributed to the early classicist style. The lavish putti and depictions of fruit, on the other hand, are clearly reminiscent of the preceding Baroque period.
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