Art and machine
Paintings and furniture beside the era's inventions.
Warburg โ CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท Gerd Eichmann โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Gerd Eichmann โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Gerd Eichmann โ CC BY-SA 4.0
Because it is the century that made it: as the railways spread, Baden-Baden became easy to reach and turned into the summer resort of the European elite โ Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Brahms stayed here, and Russian tsars and Prussian kings came. Almost everything you see in the town, the casino, the promenade, the baths and the villas, dates from those decades, so the museum explains the context that produced the town itself.
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Museum LA8 is devoted to one precisely defined subject: the nineteenth century โ its art and its technology together, and the relationship between them. The name abbreviates its address, Lichtentaler Allee 8, and it occupies an elegant classical villa of 1855 on the same promenade. The choice of subject is not arbitrary: the nineteenth century is the century that made Baden-Baden what we know โ when it turned from a small bathing town into the summer capital of Europe, drawing tsars, kings and writers. The museum presents that era from both of its sides: paintings, furniture and dress on one hand, inventions, machines and the infant art of photography on the other. The exhibitions here are temporary too, changing several times a year, but they stay within that same time frame. The building is itself part of the display, with its preserved rooms and small garden, and it holds a cafe looking onto the promenade. The museum is small and comfortable, and it complements the Kunsthalle directly next door.
Paintings and furniture beside the era's inventions.
Preserved rooms and a cafe on the promenade.
Lichtentaler Allee 8, 76530 Baden-Baden