FÜRSTENBERG Porcelain in the Style of the Times
March 20 – December 30, 2008
Decorations in the museum for the changing seasons

A Matter in Confidence
March 20 - Nov. 2, 2008
"A Matter in Confidence" - that means the moment, when a young couple confessed its love in public and says "I do" for a life together! Then, the most exciting holiday in life shall be celebrated at best. Of course, precious FÜRSTENBERG-Porcelain should decorate the gala dinner. The Exhibition shows imaginative decorations of tableware for the wedding-day.
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Watch out! – Porcelain on the Move
March 21 - Sept. 14, 2008
We often expect porcelain to be mobile and travel, but it is delicate, so caution is essential to avoid encountering flying saucers of your own. Porcelain does go mobile – and not just in transit from the production site to the locations where it is used: Porcelain is en route while traveling in our picnic baskets, in the dining car on the train, on the plane, or as a souvenir. The exhibit for the “Year of Mobility” from the East Westphalia-Lippe Museum Initiative has been developed in collaboration with students majoring in Design and Media at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Landscapes and People - Early Photography from the Weser Mountain Region
April 25 - Sept. 21, 2008
As early as the 1920s and 30s, the Weser Mountain region was not only a popular tourist destination, but the idyllic mountain and river landscape and the people that lived and worked here also provided interesting subjects for photographs time and again. With its selection of photographs, the exhibit offers a view into a past world that was not just idyllic and romantic. A joint effort with the Uslar Museum and Mitzkat Publishing of Holzminden. A book will be released to accompany the exhibit.

Crystal on Porcelain
Sept. 26, 2008 - March, 2009
Special crystal glazing produces marvelous effects on porcelain and stoneware. The ingredients for the glaze are enriched with just the right oxides, which change into new minerals when the glaze is melted and then separate out into a multitude of forms, sizes, and colors when cooling. Ceramics designers love to play with these glaze additives, which in flame, temperature, and chemical properties yield esthetically fascinating, irreproducible results that are quite difficult to predict in advance. The exhibit presents outstanding works with this technique from international artists.

Wall of fame. The EXPO Wall of Hands
Permanent exhibition
EXPO 2000 – Do you still remember? The first world’s fair in Germany was certainly cause for much discussion. We look back with a friendly gaze on this multicultural event which brought around 195 nations together, and we are pleased to be able to make a special contribution to keeping the memory of EXPO 2000 alive. All heads of state, on their Nation Day at EXPO, left lasting “impressions”: Every nation’s representative left his or her hand print in FÜRSTENBERG porcelain on this occasion. Thus a unique “guest book” was created bit by bit. Together with the EXPO bowl produced by FÜRSTENBERG, the official International gift of EXPO to the national representatives, this unusual document of contemporary history is on view in the museum.
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