Tóth Gabriella: A kékfestőhagyomány mai képviselői (Textilmúzeum Alapítvány, 2001)

Anzahl der Besucher des Museums: 1982 Jahr 12.591 Personen 1983 Jahr 22.935 Personen 1984 Jahr 43.916 Personen 1985 Jahr 49.844 Personen 1986 Jahr 53.466 Personen 1987 Jahr 54.807 Personen 1988 Jahr 61.527 Personen 1989 Jahr 70.042 Personen 1990Jahr 73.012 Personen 1991 Jahr 77.797 Personen 1992 Jahr 71.667 Personen 1993 Jahr 51.000 Personen Wir hoffen, dass unsere Leser auf Grund unserer kurzen Beschreibung ein umfassendes Bild über die traditionspflegende und den Blaudruck fördernde Arbeit des Blaudruck-Museums gewinnen. Summary The Indigo Reserve Printing Museum, called Kékfestő Museum of Pápa was developed from one of the oldest indigo reserve printing workshops of our country. The workshop had been founded by Károly Kluge in 1783 in Sárvár, then in 1786 he resettled with his family to Pápa. The Kluge workshop became shortly after one of the first among the six workshops registered in Pápa. With the rapidly developing mechanization of the workshop, with the increasing capacity they produced fabrics of good quality and soon they had a great number of permanent customers. The handicraft was carried on by seven generations in the family. Until 1956 it had functioned as a workshop, then after it had been nationalized it was declared public industrial monument. The building and ist fittings got protection due to a museum, it was supported by a great number of persons and it was opened in 1962 as a museum. But after some years it was not possible to visit the museum any more, because of the bad state of the buildings. The buildings and the fittings and furnischings had been restored on occasion of the Bicentary of its foundation, of the existence of the Kluge firm. In the workshops the path can be seen which the indigo reserve printing industry has run trough, while developing from a handicraft into a manufacturing industry. Also the relics, the material remains of this development can be seen.