The world's largest tiled stove! (1545) by matcrazy1
This amazing masterpiece of art, created by Stelzer in 1545, is covered by 520 multi-coloured tiles. The stove is 11 meters high, 2.5 meter wide at the base and it weights 11 tons. It's displayed in the Large Hall of the Artus Court at Dlugi Rynek = Long Market 43/44.Not the size itself but the tiles amazed me most. Each tile depicts a person in order following the social hierarchy of the 16th century Europe: monarchs and their wives on the top, noble citizens below and casual Gdansk citizens on the bottom. Nowadays, would you put our politicians on the top or on the bottom?Unfortunatelly the upper tiles are not well seen from the below. Shouldn't they add an elevator/lift for visitors or better computers with software to show each of them enlarged with some description? I would add a small cinema/movie theater for visitors to the Artus House with a short multi-language (wireless headphones) movie as the introduction to the visit of the museum. And the staff of the museum could be dressed in costumes of the era, don't you think so? Add some silent music of the era played from hidden speakers.
