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Visitors can sit down at tables and immerse themselves in the atmosphere of a domestic workshop, coming into contact with the artists and their works on equal footing. The exhibition combines historical with modern and contemporary objects to show the development and continuity of women’s involvement in woodworking. The scope of the exhibition ranges from figures and figural groups by the Seiffen woodcarver Auguste Müller (1847-1930), of which the museum owns almost two dozen, to works by female designers from the GDR, down to the modern artist Friederike Curling-Aust (*1976), who has developed her own style of ‘little men’ and enters into dialogue with the traditional products of the woodcarver’s craft. In addition to several dozen objects from the museum’s own collection, loans from Grünhainichen, Seiffen, and Olbernhau create a bridge between past and present.
