Reiss Engelhorn Museum

Reiss Engelhorn Museum
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen
Location Mannheim, Germany
Coordinates 49°29′20″N 8°27′44″E / 49.48888°N 8.46212°E / 49.48888; 8.46212Coordinates: 49°29′20″N 8°27′44″E / 49.48888°N 8.46212°E / 49.48888; 8.46212
Collection size ~1.2 million objects
Website www.rem-mannheim.de/en/
Portrait of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1724-1799), painted by Anna Dorothea Lisiewska-Therbusch in 1763, and whose copyright is subject of the lawsuit

The Reiss Engelhorn Museum, or Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen (rem for short), is a museum in Mannheim, Germany. It has an exhibition area of 11,300 square metres (122,000 sq ft), and houses around 1.2 million objects[1] in four museums. Its exhibits and collections includes art and cultural history, theater and literature, antiquities, international photography, life of poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller, archaeology, Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, non-European cultures, and natural history.

The main facility is the Zeughaus Museum, which features exhibit areas for art, decorative art and cultural history, theater, literature and antiquities. The International Photography Forum, located on the fourth floor, features 6,000 m² of exhibition space.

The World Cultures Museum features displays of archaeology from the Metal Ages up through Roman era, as well as medieval Germany, and Ancient Egyptian art and culture.

The Bassermannhaus Museum of Music and Fine Arts features a large collection of musical instruments from around the world.

The Schillerhaus Museum is an 18th-century house that presents the life of Friedrich Schiller.

Wikimedia lawsuit

In 2015, the museum filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland over the use of photographs of public domain artworks on the Wikimedia projects.[2] In June 2016, a Berlin court (Landgericht Berlin) ruled that digitizing paintings that are in the public domain creates new copyrights, even if the intent is to create a faithful image of the public domain work. The lawsuit was dismissed with respect to Wikimedia Deutschland on the basis that it was not responsible for the files which are managed in the U.S. by the Wikimedia Foundation, which latter organization expressed the intent to appeal the decision.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen". Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art". 23 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Glyn Moody (23 June 2016). "Digitising public domain images creates a new copyright, rules German court". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  4. ↑ Landgericht Berlin judgment in the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum v. Wikimedia Foundation case (in German)
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