🖼 Stieglitz Museum

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The incredible glass dome of the Great Hall

The museum was built in 1885–1895 to a design by Maximilian Messmacher and opened on 30 April 1896 in the presence of the imperial family.
The construction and the purchase of exhibits were paid for from the interest on the capital bequeathed by Baron Alexander Stieglitz.
The Great Exhibition Hall under the dome measures 34 by 17 metres and is 22 metres high.
The dome was originally made of coloured painted glass from Zettler's Munich factory, with a pattern of golden stars.
During the war a blast wave knocked out the dome's glazing, and in 1947 it was glazed with clear glass.
For the facade Messmacher took motifs from the Venetian Library of St Mark and the Palazzo Corner.
In the 1920s the collection was handed out to other museums, and in 1947 the exhibits began to return.

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