Museum Würth 2, featuring rooms with a height of more than five meters, provides ideal conditions for highlights of contemporary and modern art of the Würth Collection.
The annex fulfils the wish of entrepreneur and collector Reinhold Würth to create a space where the masterpieces of artists of the late 19th, the 20th and 21st century in the Würth Collection can be put on permanent display, similar to the permanent exhibition of the Old Masters of the Würth Collection at Johanniterkirche in Schwäbisch Hall.
A frosted glass ceiling ensures subtle changes in illumination. The completely glassed belvedere of Museum Würth 2 opens out onto the Hohenlohe landscape and the spacious sculpture park around Carmen Würth Forum, displaying works by such internationally acclaimed sculptors as Niki de Saint Phalle all the way to Tony Cragg. The cabinet on the lower floor is reserved for smaller formats and light-sensitive works.
A leafy interior court, the adjacent museum shop and Café Atrium connect the museum and the conference area.
The new conference area includes eleven rooms that can be connected to house up to 700 people. On top of the Great Hall suitable for events attended by up to 2,500 people, these meeting rooms are perfectly suited for smaller gatherings or large events with workshops and committee meetings organized in parallel to the main event.
Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold Würth, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Würth Group's Family Trusts, called the official opening of Museum Würth 2 with an exhibition of the high points of the collection "a kind of a finale of my life’s mission, my life’s work."
The Würth Collection comprises about 18,300 works of art from about five centuries that the entrepreneur has put together in the course of almost fifty years. "Carmen Würth Forum constitutes a very unusual combination of art, culture and business which is precisely what makes it so special. Now, Carmen Würth Forum is the power center of the entire Würth Group." In 2020, the Würth Group looks back on 75 years of corporate history.
The annex fulfils the wish of entrepreneur and collector Reinhold Würth to create a space where the masterpieces of artists of the late 19th, the 20th and 21st century in the Würth Collection can be put on permanent display, similar to the permanent exhibition of the Old Masters of the Würth Collection at Johanniterkirche in Schwäbisch Hall.
A frosted glass ceiling ensures subtle changes in illumination. The completely glassed belvedere of Museum Würth 2 opens out onto the Hohenlohe landscape and the spacious sculpture park around Carmen Würth Forum, displaying works by such internationally acclaimed sculptors as Niki de Saint Phalle all the way to Tony Cragg. The cabinet on the lower floor is reserved for smaller formats and light-sensitive works.
A leafy interior court, the adjacent museum shop and Café Atrium connect the museum and the conference area.
The new conference area includes eleven rooms that can be connected to house up to 700 people. On top of the Great Hall suitable for events attended by up to 2,500 people, these meeting rooms are perfectly suited for smaller gatherings or large events with workshops and committee meetings organized in parallel to the main event.
Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold Würth, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Würth Group's Family Trusts, called the official opening of Museum Würth 2 with an exhibition of the high points of the collection "a kind of a finale of my life’s mission, my life’s work."
The Würth Collection comprises about 18,300 works of art from about five centuries that the entrepreneur has put together in the course of almost fifty years. "Carmen Würth Forum constitutes a very unusual combination of art, culture and business which is precisely what makes it so special. Now, Carmen Würth Forum is the power center of the entire Würth Group." In 2020, the Würth Group looks back on 75 years of corporate history.
“With the second construction stage, we will complete Carmen Würth Forum and implement Reinhold Würth’s vision of a building as a meeting place and gesture to the employees of Würth. It is a symbol of their community beyond the workplace and an interface between the company and the general public.”
David Chipperfield.
Museum 2 will open with the exhibition “The Long View. Reinhold Würth and His Art Collection”, a distillation of about 150 outstanding contemporary and modern works of art. Visitors will encounter classic works of the Würth Collection by Georg Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Robert Longo, Pablo Picasso and Gerhard Richter.
