Exhibitions

From March 29.3th until May 12.5th The Rothenburger Künstlerbund eV presents its traditional spring exhibition in the Fleisch- und Tanzhaus. The show shows a wide range of works by a total of 16 artists working in Rothenburg and the surrounding area. Everything is represented, from sculptural works in bronze and wood to paintings - from abstract to figurative -, prints and photographs through to collages, reverse glass painting, pastel drawings, oil and acrylic paintings and watercolors. Also presented in the exhibition are the winners of the “Future Old Town” student competition, which the artists’ association announced last year.

The exhibition is open Thursday to Sunday from 16 p.m. to 19:30 p.m. Admission is free. The Rothenburger Künstlerbund is looking forward to your visit!

exhibition duration: Friday, March 29.03.2024th, 12.05.2024 to Sunday, May XNUMXth, XNUMX

Opening hours: Thursdays to Sundays from 16 p.m. to 19:30 p.m

Location: Meat and Dance House 

        Marktplatz 9

        91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Free entry.

From April 20, 2024, a special exhibition in the RothenburgMuseum will take a look at the works of the artist Elise Mahler. Mahler once settled in Rothenburg with the firm intention of earning a living here with her painting. Together with Maria Ressel (1877-1945) she founded a painting school for women, which soon found great popularity. Ridiculed by their male colleagues or denigrated as “painting women” and “turpentiners,” the two women asserted themselves energetically and only left the city after twenty years.

This era, in which attention to the feminine as a social and political factor in Germany increased, is honored in the new special exhibition in the RothenburgMuseum. On their extensive study trips, Mahler and Ressel looked far beyond convention and created compositions full of vivid power.

The show will be on view in the gallery rooms of the RothenburgMuseum from April 20, 2024 to December 31, 2024. The curator is Dr. Helmuth Möhring (former director of the museum and member of the museum's circle of friends).

This exhibition is part of our “Culture in the Klosterhof” series. You can find our program flyer with an overview of all the formats planned in this context here

Running time: Saturday, April 20, 2024 to Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Contact: RothenburgMuseum

               Monastery courtyard 5

               91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber

              www.rothenburgmuseum.de

Opening hours: April to October daily 9:30 a.m. - 17:30 p.m

                           November to March daily from 13 p.m. to 16 p.m

Admission: Adults 5 euros per person (regular museum entry)

             Groups of 10 or more people 4 euros per person

Television, Western orientation, secondary school education for all, and later the Internet and globalization significantly changed the lives of children in Germany from the 1950s onwards.

But how did previous generations live and experience their childhood? As part of our special exhibition, we look back to the period from 1900 to 1950 and provide insights into the school days, leisure time and everyday life of the children living back then.

The objects in this exhibition are on loan from Rothenburgers and residents of the surrounding area, who, together with their memories, bring the time back a little to life.

This exhibition is part of our “Culture in the Klosterhof” series. You can find our program flyer with an overview of all the formats planned in this context here

Running time: Sunday, August 27, 2023 to Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Contact: RothenburgMuseum

               Monastery courtyard 5

               91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber

              www.rothenburgmuseum.de

Opening hours: April to October daily 9:30 a.m. - 17:30 p.m

                           November to March daily from 13 p.m. to 16 p.m

Admission: Adults 5 euros per person (regular museum entry)

             Groups of 10 or more people 4 euros per person

As part of the festival year "750 Years of the Imperial City of Rothenburg ob der Tauber", the RothenburgMuseum is opening the special exhibition "The Weapons of an Imperial City" in June, which will then be on display there until December 31.12.2025, XNUMX.

As independent communities, imperial cities had to defend their rights and property. In addition, imperial cities also expanded their territory and their legal titles with weapons, but what “weapons” were they in each case? "Weapons" must be understood here in a multiple sense: as actual material weapons made of iron, but also in a figurative sense as, so to speak, "weapons" for asserting interests in the political, legal, economic and social areas. In some cases, financial resources, legal title and legal submissions could be more effective than many handguns. With the Baumann Collection, the RothenburgMuseum has one of the largest weapons collections in Germany. The dormitory and ballroom will be completely redesigned for the purpose of the special exhibition and will clearly show the confrontation between urban bourgeois and rural and aristocratic weapon systems.

This exhibition is part of our “Culture in the Klosterhof” series. You can find our program flyer with an overview of all the formats planned in this context here

Exhibition duration:  June 2024 – 31.12.2025

Contact: RothenburgMuseum

               Monastery courtyard 5

               91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber

              www.rothenburgmuseum.de

Opening hours: April to October daily 9:30 a.m. - 17:30 p.m

                           November to March daily from 13 p.m. to 16 p.m

Admission: Adults 5 euros per person (regular museum entry)

             Groups of 10 or more people 4 euros per person

From April 31.03.2024th, XNUMX The exhibition “inderSchwebe” by the artist Brigitte Schwacke can be seen as part of the “KUNSTPUNKTE” format in Rothenburger Wildbad.

It is the third exhibition in the “KUNSTPUNKTE” format, which was launched in the Wildbad in 2021. It offers a further platform for contemporary artistic works – in addition to the highly acclaimed art project “art residency wildbad”. For this purpose, the western staircase of the Wildbad is used in the form of a cabinet exhibition. At the same time, works and objects are presented at selected locations in the house as artistic interventions.

The artist Brigitte Schwacke is a border crosser. Whether sculpture, photography or drawing, she always moves within the border areas of the individual genres. With her works she leaves the viewer in uncertainty, in limbo with the interfaces of these categories. Whether sculpture or three-dimensional drawing, object or installation, spatial exclusion or shape creation, the transitions are fluid, the classification remains open.

In the exhibition it is possible to experience almost the entire range of her creative world. The sensitive works are composed into the sophisticated architecture of the Wildbad and enter into dialogue with it. Her works enable interior and exterior views, changes of perspective and open up new visual axes. At the interfaces of figuration and abstraction, the artist evokes the viewer's power of imagination.

The exhibition is open on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 19 p.m. and on Sundays from 8 a.m. to 17 p.m. (from October 8th from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.). Admission is free.

The Wildbad also cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition on Sunday, March 31, 2024 from 16 p.m. to 17:30 p.m. Admission is free, thank you very much.

Further information is available at: info@wildbad.de or 09861.977-0, as well as on the Rothenburger Wildbad website at: https://wildbad.de/kunst-im-treppenhaus-brigitte-schwacke/

Evangelical conference center in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Taubertalweg 42

91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber

https://wildbad.de

Experience a world of magical treasure keepers, relic hunters, sensational treasure discoveries and treasure hunting trials in this special exhibition at the Medieval Crime Museum. From the Middle Ages to the early modern period to modern times, visitors have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the history of treasure hunting, its demystification and legalization, as well as the hope for a blessed change in living conditions, using a variety of exhibits from the Crime Museum and numerous lenders, as well as various media .

Exhibition duration: 30.04.2023 – 31.12.2024

Contact: Medieval Crime Museum

               Burggasse 3-5

               91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber

               https://www.kriminalmuseum.eu/

Opening hours: April to October, Mon - Sun: 10:00 a.m. - 18:00 p.m

                           November, Monday – Sunday 13:00 p.m. – 16:00 p.m

                           December to January 8th, Mon - Sun 11:00 a.m. - 17:00 p.m

                           January 9th to March, Mon - Sun: 13:00 p.m. - 16:00 p.m

                           Special opening times: December 24.12.2023th, 31.12.2023 (Christmas Eve) and December 10st, 00 (New Year's Eve) from 13:00 a.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m

                           The last entry is always 45 Minutes before closing.

Admission: Adults 9 euros per person

             Groups of 20 or more people 8 euros per person