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Now you can explore the Museum of Drawers online under:

http://www.schubladenmuseum.com/

The Museum of Drawers is almost exclusively filled with art of the 1960s and 1970s, represented by the five hundred pieces installed within it, giving a comprehensive survey of a period of art whose currents were more numerous than ever before: the last two decades of modern time, immediately before the paradigm change to socalled postmodern time, in which there are no more currents to find at all. But there are also some works of the classical avant-garde; they form the background for all the currents that complete one hundred years of modern art and oscillate between artists like Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp.

The Museum of Drawers by Herbert Distel, a former box for reels of sewing silk from an old haberdasher’s shop, comprises 20 drawers, each with 25 compartements – rooms. Each of these totally 500 rooms measures 1 11/16 ´´ in height, 2 1/4 ´´ in width and 1 7/8 ´´ in depth, and in each of them houses an original work of art, mostly realized by artists of the 1960ies and 1970ies especially for the Museum of Drawers.