Carpets & Collections of the Alpine Area

ICOC Conference Tour 2019

              Carpets & Collections of the Alpine Area
                               September 8–14, 2019

Following the success of the ICOC-Conference-Tour „Vienna-Budapest“ in 2014,
the Austrian Society for Textile Art Research (TKF) is pleased to announce the
forthcoming ICOC-Conference Tour „Carpets and Collections of the Alpine
Area“ to be held in September 2019. This exclusive tour will take participants
to little known museums, monasteries and sumptuous royal palaces in the
mountain regions of Bavaria, Tyrol and Northern Italy.
As a result of the TKF’s longstanding close co-operation with museums, we are
able to include collections of:
Museum Fuenf Kontinente, Munich (Ethnological Museum)
Hofburg (Royal Palace) and the Museum of Tyrolean Heritage, Innsbruck
Museum der Voelker, Schwaz
Hofburg (Royal Palace) Brixen
South Tyrolean Folklore Museum, Bruneck, and the
South Tyrolean Museum of Archaeology, Bozen.
Participants will have the opportunity to examine pre-historic textiles and
Oetzi, the ice-man himself, during a private viewing being organised exclusively
for participants of this tour. In addition, there will be an array of collections of
oriental carpets, Byzantine silks, medieval tapestries and local textile art on
display.
One of the highlights will be the exhibition “Woven and Embroidered Stories-
Textiles from private collections” in Schwaz, focusing on ethnological textiles
from private Austrian collections never seen before on display. Another
exhibition worthy of a visit will be to Traunstein to view “2000 Years of Textile
Art” which will include outstanding antique oriental rugs.
We are particularly pleased to offer our participants privileged access to some
important private collections of carpets and textiles of this Alpine Area.

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Our small and dedicated team is organising a diverse and inspiring tour which
will start in Munich on September 8th, 2019 and will take participants to
Innsbruck, Schwaz, Brixen, Bruneck, Bozen, Traunstein and back to Munich on
September 13th, 2019. Expert lectures will accompany the various exhibitions
and sights.
Participants will be able to learn more about the details of the tour as we plan
to open the booking period from January 2019 until end April 2019.
Talks and guided tours will be held in English.

                                  Preliminary Programme

Sunday, September 8th

A       Munich

    •   The Museum Fuenf Kontinente

        http://www.museum-fuenf-kontinente.de/services/english-summary.html

    − check-in
    − 15:00           The director of the Museum Dr. Uta Werlich will address and welcome
                      the ICOC-participants.
        15:10−15:30 Dr. Bruno Richtfeld: Introduction to the history and the collections of
                      the Museum
        15:30−15:50 Dr. Michael Buddeberg: The Chinese carpets of the 17th-19th century in
                      the Preetorius-Collection
        16:00         private viewing of the Chinese Carpets of the Preetorius-Collection
    − followed by the bus transfer from Munich to Innsbruck

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Monday, September 09th

B       Innsbruck

    •   Museum of Tyrolean Regional Heritage
        http://www.tiroler-
        landesmuseen.at/page.cfm?vpath=haeuser/volkskunstmuseum/haus
    − special exhibition of the historical “Defregger-Teppiche”
    •   Court Church (Schwarz-Mander-Kirche)

        http://www.tiroler-landesmuseen.at/page.cfm?vpath=haeuser/hofkirche/haus

    •   Imperial Hofburg Innsbruck

        http://www.hofburg-innsbruck.at/623/php/portal.php?language=en

    − special exhibition of rugs and textiles of a diverse private collection (TKF) "Spanning
        the Mediterranean to the Caspian Seas"
    − lecture programme in the Gothic vaults

Tuesday, September 10th

C       Schwaz

    •   Museum der Voelker:
    − exhibition of ethnological textiles (TKF)
    − "Woven and embroidered stories. Textiles from private collections"
    − lecture programme
    •   Seegrube Restaurant, Nordkette: cable car to the top of the mountain (outdoor
        programme, depending on weather)

        https://www.nordkette.com/en/restaurant-seegrube.html

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Wednesday, September 11th

D       Brixen

    •   Hofburg Brixen, The Diocesan Museum
    − permanent exhibition of liturgical vestments and textiles
    − special display of so called “Bargello textiles”
    − guided tour of the historic cloister

E       Bruneck

    •   South Tyrolean Folklore Museum
    − visit of the open-air museum displaying historic local textile production
    •   lecture programme in the evening (venue at the hotel)

Thursday, September 12th

F       Bozen

    •   South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
    − 08:45 tour and private viewing of Oetzi the Iceman and his artefacts
                 http://www.iceman.it/en/
    − the Bronze age textile finds of the “Rieserferner” Natural Park
    •   Monastery Muri-Gries: viewing of medieval tapestries
    •   Merkantil-building: private South Tyrolen Collection (TKF)

Friday, September 13th

G       Traunstein, Bavaria

    •   Klosterkirche, Kulturzentrum
    − “The Oriental Ambassadors Collection — 2000 Years of Textile Art” (“Botschafter aus
        dem Orient — 2000 Jahre Textilkunst”): by Silke and Roland Weise
        exclusive event for participants of the ICOC-Alpine Tour
    •   evening: return to Munich

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Our hotels ….

                Hotel Leipziger Hof, Innsbruck ****

                Hotel Gruener Baum, Brixen ****

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Fig. 1: Tour map.

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