Luise Kimme- The Museum

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Kimme Museum - "The Castle"

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Museum May 07
The newly repainted museum 2006- Photo Luise Kimme 2007 ©All rights reserved

The Kimme Museum, also called "The Castle", was designed by Luise Kimme and is built around the original workshop. This is where Luise Kimme lives and works. It houses a collection of 100 life-size wooden sculptures, carved from oak trees which she roughed out in the German forest and then shipped to Tobago for completion. Bronze casts are made from the wooden originals.

(At left photo of Luise taken by Ruwa Sabbagh on 1.12.2005. Please click on picture to see enlargemen)

The "Court Yard" - photo: I.B. Hilton-Clarke©

In the Museum there are 14-foot tall religious sculptures and reliefs, dancing couples and Nijinsky ballet dancers, early folklore characters and mythiological figures.Her sculptures capture the essence of the Tobago people, their beliefs, customs, folklore, dances as well as the nature surrounding her.Luise Kimme's main interest, however, is ancient sculpture and dance.

ARCHITECTURE
Architect Ekkehart Schwarz, (click on link to see photo) based in N.Y., did the structural drawings. He separated the Chapel from the Museum, then he continued the distance from the fence to the Museum, and changed direction after 4 feet or 122 cm. Brillant!

The first House with fretwork (1987 -97

The inspiration for all the Gothic Points in the Sky came from Canaletto's (1697-1768 ) painting London and the Thames, showing all the steeples of Sir Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) churches, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Also from the palace of Count Santiago de la Laguna, Zacatecos, Mexico, and from Renaissance, Gothic, Greek, English architecture and Viollet-le-Duc's (1814-1879) Lectures on Architecture.

Everything was sculpted by hand, in cement, by two very creative and patient masons from the village of Moriah: Allister Bruce, now in Heaven, and Dusty Williams.

"Chapel" and Museum, 1993 - 97)

Allister was the most beautiful man I have ever seen; he has been my imaginary model for sculpture and drawing for some time. The birds on the roof, carved from oak, were done by Torkler, the Wind Chimes by sculptor Anna Serrao, and everything was made reality by the eternally enthusiastic and energetic builder, Roger Duncan.

Directions to The Kimme Museum (The Castle)

Kimme Museum

Visiting hours:
Sundays from 10.00 am - 2.00 pm.

There is an entrance fee of US 3.50 or TT20.00/person.
Visits at other times can be arranged per telephone
(868) 639-0257.

Directions to the museum:

Turn off Shirvan Road toward the Mt. Irvine Hotel. Pass the Hotel and go up the hill, it is the 2nd turn on the right.

1st turn on the right is called Pine Hurst Drive and is a dead end, do not go in there unless you are walking (first track up on your left). Kimme Drive lies directly above and runs parallel to it. To reach Kimme Drive you keep going past Pine Hurst Drive, up the hill, keep strictly to the right, even when a little diversion appears on top of the hill, stick to the right and immediately there will appear a sharp turn to the right, facing down to the ocean, it is called Aurora Ave. By now you will see Kimme Drive, turn left. At the end of the short road is the Kimme Museum. See you there.

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