Exhibition "There Was Light!"

Until today, original lamps, wiring, light switches, and fuse panels have been preserved in the Gardener and Hacker Museum, which Thomas Kauer installed around 1908/10. Kauer, the son of a Bamberg gardener family, trained as an electrical installer at Groß & Bohrer in Bamberg around 1900. While many gardener households still illuminated their rooms with gas lamps or candles at that time, the Kauer family was already among the early users of modern electric lighting. Over the years, Thomas Kauer repeatedly maintained and improved the system without replacing the original installation. The cabinet exhibition tells the story of electrification through these exceptionally well-preserved technical artifacts and shows how the new technology entered the everyday life of Bamberg gardening families. Info: 0951 8631250Event link