[photo-3d] Re: EXPLORA exhibition

["Abram Klooswyk" <abram.klooswyk@xxxxxx>]

Boris Starosta Aug 22, 2000: 
>the museum will display five of my anaglyph fine art prints 
(...) 
>The EXPLORA museum is arguably Germany's largest (certainly 
>most massive!) museum devoted to stereoscopic, multi-view, 
>and holographic art; as well as art involving optical 
>illusions, trick imagery, and other effects. 

This is probably the right moment to speak about the wonderful 
initiatives of Gerhard Stief. 

Gerhard Stief, photo designer by profession, started the 
"Museum der 3. Dimension" in the little medieval town of 
Dinkelsbühl some 13 years ago, in one of the towers of the 
ancient town wall (the Nördlinger Tor), and it is still there. 
Recently a "SuperAnaglyphe" showing "Neu Schwanstein" by 
Achim Bahr has been added there. Dinkelsbühl is only two or 
three hours driving from Frankfurt, passing through Rothenburg 
and other places on the Romantische Strasse.

Stief was not satisfied to own only ONE museum :-), so he 
started a second one in Frankfurt, in 1994, the EXPLORA, which 
is a general science museum, but with definite emphasis on 3D 
and vision.
Stief has collected and exposed everything himself, with a 
very small staff, and it is a private museum, in a bunker 
which Stief bought in 1995.

Boris: 
>The bunker was built just prior to WWII to resemble a 
>medieval castle (maybe the building of bunkers was prohibited 
>by treaty at the time?). 
Hitler was in power since 1933, he remilitarized the 
Rheinland in 1936 and occupied Austria in 1938, the same year 
that the Explora bunker was built. 
Respecting treaties was not one of Hitler's strong points...

The official new museum site  http://www.EXPLORAMuseum.de/  is 
not active yet, but there is more at: 
http://members.aol.com/exploraffm/explora.htm  
and you can try: 
http://www.frankfurter-museen.de/seiten/explora/portraet.htm
(both in German, translation is possible through 
http://babel.altavista.com/translate.dyn
but that works somewhat cumbersome with frames)

I have visited Stief's museums several times, I hope to see 
Boris' work there the next time (don't know when). 

Abram Klooswyk