Yesterday I was in Nuremberg. The capital of the Franconian County in Bavaria is well known in Germany for it’s Christmas market and the traditional Christmas sweets like “Lebkuchen”. The last time I visited this town during my studies in 2003 on a step to Munich. We visited the “Neues Museum” (which hosted exhibits of the “Neue Sammlung” design collection at this time) and the Nazi buildings with the world war II documentation centre. At my trip yesterday I decided to see the “Neues Museum” (new museum) again and was disappointed. In 2003 I was surprised by the freshness of the building and the ambivalence of industrial design and contemporary art side by side. The design items are at the present time not showed, but the art collection did not benefit from the surplus of space. It is a fact that you will find some famous artists like Beuys or Avramidis, but you will miss a general system or a path. The permanent art exhibition looks like an overdimensioned flea market of expensive works without any system. Even a private collector would invest more time in a concept of uniformity or a patchwork. So it is not a wonder that this museum has a lack of visitors, even if it is in the heart of town. It is too boring for tourists and too poor in exhibits for art fans. Let’s see what happens when the design collection is back!
