Puppenmuseum Falkenstein - Sammlung Elke Dröscher
Visit the area:
How to find us:
- Street
- Grotiusweg 79
- Zip, City
- 22587 Hamburg
- Country
- Germany
- Phone
- 040-81 05 82
- Fax
- 040-81 81 66
- Web
- http://www.elke-droescher.de/
Description
On the Elbe riverbank in Hamburg lies the Puppenmuseum Falkenstein, a house dedicated to European cultural and social history that documents bourgeois ways of life from the late 18th century to the 1960s.
The museum is housed in a white villa built in 1923–1924 in the style of the New Objectivity and listed as an architectural monument. The villa stands on the Hohen Elbufer between Altona and Wittenbergen on a geest ridge above the beach and is connected by an Elbe riverside footpath.
The building was already published in 1925 in the first volume of the Bauhausbücher. Ownership changed in the mid-20th century; in the 1970s a demolition permit existed but was not carried out. After falling into disrepair, the property passed into municipal ownership in 1980. A collector financed the restoration and upkeep in 1985, allowing the museum to open in May 1986. Later that same year the house was placed under monument protection.
The exhibition comprises antique dollhouses from various periods and stylistic traditions as well as hundreds of meticulously detailed miniature objects that are rarely preserved in everyday life. The dolls are presented in period-appropriate costume, illustrating developments in fashion and shifts in ideals of beauty. The historical evolution of women’s roles as a reflection of societal change is also addressed.