Lauchhammer Art Casting Museum

The Lauchhammer Art Foundry Museum was founded in 1992 and is a direct neighbour of the art foundry that is still in operation today.
The foundry's model collection is housed in a former school building, the "bronze school", and 2,800 casting models made of plaster or metal are on display for visitors to discover. This Lauchhammer model collection is listed as a unique historical fund. It offers a cultural-historical overview of the period between the end of the 18th century and today. Lauchhammer's contributions to cast-iron architecture are also the subject of the museum, as are cast-iron utensils, poterie and stoves. The history of art and technology are related to each other in an exciting way. 

The history of Lauchhammer as an industrial location began as early as 1725 with the blowing of the first blast furnace during the time when the Baroness of Löwendahl was promoting her estate. Her art-loving godson Detlef Carl von Einsiedel then made Lauchhammer the centre of iron art casting on the basis of his collection of antique copies. In 1784 his sculptors achieved a groundbreaking success: the first figurative hollow iron casting was made in Lauchhammer with the casting of a bacchanal. From 1838, bronze was also cast in Lauchhammer and well-known sculptors from the Berlin and Dresden schools of sculpture entrusted the execution of their works to this foundry. In the course of its long history, the foundry remained a leader in the casting of monumental sculptures.