Ambassador Opens Elisabet Ney Exhibition in Muenster
January 26, 2008.
Ambassador Timken was the keynote speaker at the opening of the Elisabet Ney exhibition at City Museum Münster on January 26 which was attended by over 400 guests. In his remarks, the Ambassador paid tribute to the artist who was born in Muenster 175 years ago and emigrated to Texas where she became a highly acclaimed sculptress and one of the first German-American artists to build a cultural bridge between her old and new homeland. Muenster Lord Mayor Dr. Berthold Tillmann and Ruprecht Polenz, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, also spoke at the opening stressing the value and importance of cultural heritage as a cornerstone of bilateral relations. Ambassador Timken serves as patron of the exhibition.

• Stadtmuseum Muenster

(from left:) Ruprecht Polenz, Ambassador Timken, Museum Director Barbara Rommé, Lord Mayor Tillmann, CG Matt Boyse

A special tour of the exhibit