Christmas-card of the Sorbian museum
Now in the time around Christmaseve you can find, corresponding to the tiny windows of an advent-calendar, little numbered boxes here and there in the museum with christmas terms in upper sorbian and german. If you write them down you can solve a quiz with them.
These year our annual wishes are being delivered by a lonesome rider under three shining stars. Maybe he is riding into the upcoming year? To all our friends, guests and supporters thank you for this year and best wishes for 2018!
Family afternoon and advent celebration december the 16nth 2017
On Saturday, december the 16nth 2018 at 3.00 p.m. everyone interested ist cordially invited to a family afternoon. We want to celebrate the advent time with singing, stories and poems. Apart of handicraft-equipment — tea, coffee and pastries shall be prepared. There might be a surprise awaiting the children.
Featuring as special guests: Lydija Maćijowa for the music and Štefan Paška as narrator. We are glad to welcome you!
The font of the Krabat-exhibition
Sometimes bypath of an exhibition are quite interesting. Some of our visitors might have noticed the elegant and pleasant typeface, which is used in the exhibition and for the exhibition catalogue. Some people tend to oversee that kind of aspect.
But, can you believe that the font derives from the time of Johann von Schadowitz!
The author and carver of the types was the Hungarian Miklós Kis, who was born in 1650 in Misztótfalu, nowadays in Romania. At this time Johann von Schadowitz was 26 years old.
Originaly a teacher, Kis went to Amsterdam to study theology and only came in touch with printing through the task to oversee the printing of an hungarian Bible.
The font he invented is part of the Antiqua-fonts with rounded sigantures, which are oriented on antique examples, in difference to the „Blackletters“ like the Schwabacher and the Fraktur.
This Antiqua-font is suitable for the use of diacritics, that you find often in hungarian and slavonian texts. Kis worked in Klausenburg, hungarian Kolozsvár, today Cluj-Napoca in Romania) after his return from the Netherlands until he dies in 1702. Until recent times this font, and customized derivates of it was known under the name Janson. (For further information see: http://www.typografie.info/3/artikel.htm/wissen/janson-antiqua-kis).
This means, when you visit our the special exhibition or have a fine read in the exhibitions catalogue, not only the content but also the font will bring you back to the time of the historical Krabat.
We thank the design-agency logoform for recommending this font.
The Sorbian museum is sponsored by the foundation for the Sorbian people (Stiftung für das sorbische Volk), which annually grant benefits because of tax money based on the financial household decided by deputies of the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, the state parliament of Brandenburg (Landtag Brandenburg) and the state parliament of Saxony (Landtag Sachsen). The museum is also supported by the administrative district Bautzen (Landkreis Bautzen) and the cultural area Upper Lusatia-Lower Silesia (Kulturraum Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien). The Sorbian museum is an institution of the administrative district Bautzen.
