The CVA also puts on exhibitions of Anchor products, including large Anchor
block buildings. CVA members build the display models over the week
preceding the opening. The next such exhibition was opened in
the Flanders Toy Museum (Speelgoedmuseum van Vlaanderen) in
Mechelen, Belgium, on October 25, 1996 and will remain open until April 20,
1997. I spent a week with other Anchor friends building this display.
The display of Anchor buildings is excellent, and I urge all Anchor
friends who are in the area to see it. (For those who play billiards,
Mechelen is the home of Raymond Ceulemans. I saw him play a 50 point
match -- he won 50 - 34 in 24 innings. He plays most evenings at his
son's billiard club, which is open to the public.) The previous exhibition
was held in the Richter Villa in Rudolstadt in 1994.
The CVA has chosen Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany, which is about 30 km from the Austrian border on the autobahn between München and Satzburg. The CVA is currently looking for sites for 2000 and 2002. The CVA is hoping that a site in the U.K. or the USA can be found.
A "building week" is being held at the Richter Villa in Rudolstadt between December 1 through 20, 1996. Builders are invited to bring their stones and build Anchor buildings in the Richter Villa. The completed buildings will be on display to the public from December 20th, with an opening "Richtfest" at 6:00PM on that day. This display will remain open until May 4, 1997. It may be too late to sign up to build, but anyone who is interested in building should call Rudolstadt (03672/424543 - the KulTourDiele); be prepared to converse in German. Builders must bring their own material. I would certainly want to know the arrangements for taking down the exhibits before I left my stones in Rudolstadt.
The best permanent museum exhibition known to me is in the Toy Museum in Oosterhout (NB) Netherlands. The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, also has an excellent collection, though I do not know just how much is on exhibition at any given time. The Toy Museum in Salzburg has a nice Anchor display, using the Erwin Gebert collection. The Gebert collection was very extensive, so I suspect that they have a lot more not on display. During the Traunstein exhibition construction period I plan to visit the Salzburg Toy Museum with the aim of examining the Gebert collection.
A touring exhibition by the Mechelen Toy Museum is traveling through the middle of the USA. It has been in Dallas and will be in other cities between Minnesota and Texas. Keep an eye out for it. The exhibition includes two Anchor buildings, a NS # 16 and the famous Castle on the Lake (Schloss am See) from GK-NF # 34.
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