Pig Museum (Stuttgart, Germany) Reviews
Newest Review: ... wild hogs living in our forests today. It looks just like a hiding-place with green and leafy wall paper all around. Exhibits stand on sawn-off tree trunks. Loud grunts come out of a loudspeaker. Then there is an enormous golden pig in the middle of one room, on the walls hang photos with hundreds of black frames of extinct or endangered pig breeds. You also meet the 'German Large White' on a rotating stage, the flagship of the international pig industry so-to-speak. A variety of jobs based on pigs is introduced such as hunter, breeder, butcher, medical researcher, salesman. Walking on we learn that the pig is the animal best adapted fo... more
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Pig Museum (Stuttgart, Germany): Sexy Sow (1278 words)by - written on 11/09/12, updated on 12/09/12 (Very useful, 149 readings)
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All art museums are more or less alike. The artifacts may be unique, but there are only so many ways of exhibiting them. Follow me to a museum which is truly unique in all aspects, namely the one and only Pig Museum world-wide. "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, only pigs treat us as equals." (Winston Churchill) Two years ago private collector Erika Wilhelmer found a home for her collection of pigs and pig related paraphernalia which couldn't be more appropriate: the art deco building formerly used for the administration of the slaughterhouse (German: Schlachthof) in Stuttgart, Schlachthofstraße 2 (Slaughter House ... Read the complete review
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