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Schwitters and the Merzbauten

Museum collections and project partners

  • Factum Arte - Factum Arte is an independent workshop based in Madrid working both with contemporary artists and on the production of facsimiles that can be used for conservation purposes.
  • Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne - The Merzbarn wall is permanently displayed in one room of the gallery and is considered as a work of international significance.
  • Tate Britain, Millbank, London - Tate Britain is the world centre for the understanding and enjoyment of British art and works actively to promote interest in British art internationally.
  • The Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Foundation - The Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Foundation is a non-profit-organization based at the Sprengel Museum, Hanover.
  • The Romsdal Museum in Norway - One of the largest and most comprehensive folk museums in Norway, established in 1912.
  • The Sprengel Museum - The Kurt Schwitters Archive was established at the Sprengel Museum Hannover in 1994, and contains the most comprehensive documentation of his life and work.
  • Tyne and Wear Museums/Great North Museum - Proposed site for major international Merzbau survey exhibition 2012.

Related arts organisations and study centres

  • Brantwood/Ruskin Centre - Brantwood home of John Ruskin - Cumbria Tourist Attraction
  • Cabaret Voltaire - Zurich Dada.
  • Farley Yard Trust/Roland Penrose - Lee Miller - Roland Penrose and Lee Miller lived at Farley Farm in East Sussex which came to be known as ‘The Home of The Surrealists in England’
  • Grizedale Arts - Runs a programme of events, projects, residencies and activity which seeks to develop the contemporary arts in new directions.
  • International DADA archive - A scholarly resource for the study of the historic Dada movement.
  • Locus+ - A visual arts commissioning agency that works with artists on the production and presentation of socially engaged, collaborative and temporary projects.
  • LYC Museum - As well as making his own art, between 1972-1983 Li Yuan-chia organized the LYC Museum and Art Gallery in Cumbria.
  • Raoul Hausmann
  • Wordsworth Trust/Dove Cottage - The Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery, incorporating Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Cumbria England. Dove Cottage was the home of William Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808, the years of his supreme work as a poet.

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