The Draiflessen Collection
After its founding in 2009 on the private initiative of the German/Dutch entrepreneurial family Brenninkmeijer, the Draiflessen Collection became a non-profit art museum in 2017. As such, it regularly presents epoch-spanning exhibitions on various topics that move between areas of tension such as tradition and future, faith and doubt, borders and freedom, reality and fiction, and which are illuminated from an artistic and scientific perspective and aim to stimulate discussion. To this end, the Draiflessen Collection places a special emphasis on education and dialogue.
At the heart of the Draiflessen Collection, together with the Liberna Collection on permanent loan, is a collection of high-quality manuscripts, miniatures, incunabula, books after 1500, prints and hand drawings—mainly from the 15th to 17th centuries. This part of the collection can be counted as one of the most important Dutch specialist libraries of the Golden Age worldwide. It is open to the public in the specially equipped study hall and opens up exciting insights to visitors through accompanying exhibitions.
The Draiflessen Collection also includes an extensive archive for collecting, safeguarding and researching the family and business history of the founding family. With DAS Forum, a place of interdisciplinary exchange was established in 2018. As a platform, it offers space for a wide variety of questions relating to the topic of family businesses with various event formats from smaller workshops to symposia – accompanied by thematically corresponding exhibitions – and at the same time provides an insight into the otherwise rather hidden topics and work of the archive and its collection of objects.
From the very beginning, the Draiflessen Collection has been conceived as a lively place that focuses on encounter, inspiration and dialogue, and that makes it possible to exchange and pass on experiences, as well as to get to know and acknowledge other perspectives. In this sense, the museum also deliberately relies on cooperation: In addition to exhibition takeovers by other museums, the Draiflessen Collection initiates and develops joint projects with international partners from the cultural sector. It sees itself as a lively place for cultural exchange, in which dialogue—including cross-border dialogue—plays an essential role.
The name ‘Draiflessen’ is a word construction derived from the old, secret language of the Tüötten. Its two root words stems ‘drai’ (meaning: three, Trinity, turn, do business) and ‘flessen’ (meaning: flax, linen, home) express themes that are meaningful for the founding family: its close relationship to its Westphalian origins, its Christian faith, and its entrepreneurship, which, at its time, had its beginnings in the textile trade.
Contact
Draiflessen Collection
Georgstraße 18 · 49497 Mettingen
+49 (0)5452.9168-0
info@draiflessen.com · www.draiflessen.com
At the heart of the Draiflessen Collection, together with the Liberna Collection on permanent loan, is a collection of high-quality manuscripts, miniatures, incunabula, books after 1500, prints and hand drawings—mainly from the 15th to 17th centuries. This part of the collection can be counted as one of the most important Dutch specialist libraries of the Golden Age worldwide. It is open to the public in the specially equipped study hall and opens up exciting insights to visitors through accompanying exhibitions.
The Draiflessen Collection also includes an extensive archive for collecting, safeguarding and researching the family and business history of the founding family. With DAS Forum, a place of interdisciplinary exchange was established in 2018. As a platform, it offers space for a wide variety of questions relating to the topic of family businesses with various event formats from smaller workshops to symposia – accompanied by thematically corresponding exhibitions – and at the same time provides an insight into the otherwise rather hidden topics and work of the archive and its collection of objects.
From the very beginning, the Draiflessen Collection has been conceived as a lively place that focuses on encounter, inspiration and dialogue, and that makes it possible to exchange and pass on experiences, as well as to get to know and acknowledge other perspectives. In this sense, the museum also deliberately relies on cooperation: In addition to exhibition takeovers by other museums, the Draiflessen Collection initiates and develops joint projects with international partners from the cultural sector. It sees itself as a lively place for cultural exchange, in which dialogue—including cross-border dialogue—plays an essential role.
The name ‘Draiflessen’ is a word construction derived from the old, secret language of the Tüötten. Its two root words stems ‘drai’ (meaning: three, Trinity, turn, do business) and ‘flessen’ (meaning: flax, linen, home) express themes that are meaningful for the founding family: its close relationship to its Westphalian origins, its Christian faith, and its entrepreneurship, which, at its time, had its beginnings in the textile trade.
Contact
Draiflessen Collection
Georgstraße 18 · 49497 Mettingen
+49 (0)5452.9168-0
info@draiflessen.com · www.draiflessen.com
Opening Hours
Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The first Thursday every month from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The first Thursday every month from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Draiflessen
| © Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Foto / Photo: Henning Rogge
