Ausstellung Kloster Museum St. Märgen
Landscape - art - clock history. The monastery museum in St. Märgen offers a broad cross-section of the most important themes that have characterised the Black Forest over the past centuries.
Special exhibition: "On the prowl" Black Forest clocks with game and hunting motifs
The St. Märgen Monastery Museum invites visitors to go "stalking" in a new special exhibition. The exhibition organisers draw attention to the special world of game, forest and hunting motifs that adorned the clock plates of old Black Forest clocks alongside the well-known floral motifs. The clock plate painters of the Black Forest tell us about tranquil landscapes, forest scenes with stags, deer, foxes and hares, hunters and poachers, hunting luck and hunting misfortune.
All the common types of clocks that have been made throughout the history of Black Forest clocks, from the traditional lacquered shield clock to the frame and porcelain shield clock and the carved clocks, always feature landscape, game and hunting motifs in their shield decorations alongside floral motifs. The famous Black Forest cuckoo clock in particular, richly decorated with oak and vine leaf carvings, fir trees and all kinds of forest animals, has even become the epitome and advertising medium for the Black Forest.
Sundays and public holidays, 11 a.m. Museum tour "Journey through clock country"
Guided tours through the special exhibition on request.
Special guided tours on request by calling 07669/ 91 18-11.
Current information can be found on the homepage.
The museum is largely barrier-free.
A lift is available.