vorarlberg museum

This building is also impressive from an architectural standpoint. Over 16,000 blossoms made from concrete adorn the facade, whilst the showroom on the fourth floor is especially awe-inspiring.

vorarlberg museum: A facade of flowers and panoramic views

The darkness of the interior space invites visitors to admire the constantly changing scenery of Lake Constance from an enormous panoramic window.

The museum’s permanent exhibition provides insights into the region’s cultural history and also features changing exhibitions on various topics. The architectural firm Cukrowicz Nachbaur of Vorarlberg designed the architecture of the new museum, which integrates historically protected elements. The facade with its 16,656 concrete flowers is especially arresting. Interestingly, these blossoms are actually nothing more than the imprints of commercial PET bottles. The architect and mathematician Urs Beat Roth from Zurich helped with the artistic arrangement by geometrically interpreting the concept conceived by South Tyrolean artist Manfred Alois Mayr. From a distance, the viewer recognises only ellipses, squares and other geometric forms, which actually adorn the facade as relief.

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS

“vorarlberg. a making of”
How did Vorarlberg become what it is today? This exhibition, which deals with the history of the region, seeks answers to this question.

“buchstäblich vorarlberg” (literally vorarlberg)
A selection of 26 object groups that are each summarised under a single general term represent the diversity of the collection, which contains more than 160,000 artefacts from art, history and archaeology.

The Vorarlberg artist Miriam Prantl created the light installation Colours/Lights/Lake for the staircase featuring a gentle play of colours that reflects different light atmospheres at Lake Constance. The railing is equipped with LED strip lights whose upward light movement corresponds to the programming of seven light boxes in the stairwell. Slowing down, calming down, contemplation – the effect of the colours and the light attune visitors for the exhibition.

Brigantium in the 1st Century A.D.
A forum the size of a football pitch, an ancient Roman spa, the craft and trade quarter at the Tschermakgarten in Bregenz – the public and private buildings of Brigantium dating from the first century A.D. all fire up your imagination. Was Bregenz a city during the time of the Romans? There is a lot to suggest that it was, but no clear evidence to confirm this.

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