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On July 5, 1946, only a few days after the devastating US nuclear bomb tests in the Bikini Atoll, a "bomb" of a very different kind detonated in the middle of France. For this day the French swimwear designer Louis Réard ...

July 5 - International Bikini Day. The "JANARA Swimwear Award" annually honors the best swimwear labels for their outstanding collections. Women's favourite garments and a booming global market worth billions, bikinis and swimsuits ...

From 5 July, the BikiniARTmuseum in cooperation with the Schuster Collection will be showing an icon of pin-up art: Bunny Yeager - The Queen of Pinup. This first temporary exhibition by BAM, which has already been shown very successfully in California, runs until April 2021.

The Bikini PopUp Museum within the BikiniARTmuseum invites you to shoot unusual photo sets - or as the boys say "to create content for social media. Discover unique surfboard sets, swings at Candyland, four changing rooms extravagantly designed by international artists, also with a photo point from above, as well as the classics ball bath and pink bathtub,

Finally, on the first Sunday in July it is time for "provocative & so feminist". The world's first museum for swimwear and bathing culture in Bad Rappenau lets the curtains go up with three centuries of swimwear and intensive...

Already in the forties Marilyn Monroe in a bikini made the front pages .

A statement of the BikiniARTmuseum on the occasion of the International Museum Day on 17 May 2020 with the focus on "The Museum for All - Museums for Diversity and Inclusion".

The BikiniARTmuseum is filling up constantly. And it must be, because we are pleased to announce that the world's first swimwear museum will open its doors on July 5, 2020. Bit by bit, top-class exhibits, state-of-the-art technology and valuable works of art are moving into the museum. We venture a renewed look behind the scenes.

Corona also does not get before bikinis. The eagerly awaited opening of the BikiniARTmuseum has to be postponed. The completion work is running unchecked. A first look behind the scenes.

The Molitor Paris, today a luxury design hotel, at the best and finest location in Paris, a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower and the Louis Vuitton Musem, was the historical place that gave the birth of the bikini its unique setting and extraordinary flair.

Dear BAM friends, we hope you personally, your family and your loved ones are well. This is a special time - for all of us. Unfortunately we have to postpone the opening of the BikiniARTmuseum because of COVID-19. Please understand that we cannot communicate a new opening date at the moment...

With a spectacular lifting action at the beginning of March, the 10-metre tall, imposing symbolic figure was placed on the roof of the BikiniARTmuseum. JANARA" is now enthroned at a height of a good 20 metres, visible from afar. In the Maria Laach monastery, master blacksmith Edgar Radar and his seven-member team took up the challenge of lifting the figure.

The conference room in the Best Western Hotel right next to the BikiniARTmuseum was packed. Here people drew, painted, glued, discussed, laughed and above all, a lot of art was made under the guidance of Sabine Amelung.

ADJUSTED TO DIFFERENT TIME TO CORONAVIRUS: Invitation to a white sausage breakfast and exclusive short film screening.

We would like to invite you to be part of this unique event for the region: On Wednesday, March 04 in the course of the morning, the almost 10-metre high JANARA is to be hoisted onto the roof of the five-storey BikiniARTmuseum with a hydraulic terrain crane. At a height of a good 20 meters it towers after.

Her women's fashion is made of recycled sea waste - CEO & CO founder of the successful fashion label LANASIA Lisa-Maria Beck comes to the BikiniARTmuseum and talks about Women Power, sustainability, recycling processes and the future potential of Green Future.

Each playing card is a work of art in its own right! The Pikinni XXIV playing card motifs form a cross-section of many themes that can be seen in the BikiniARTmuseum.

Handover of the Marilyn Monroe exhibit on 22 February 2020: a velvet and lace swimsuit by the world's leading swimwear expert Ghislaine Rayer from Paris to the BikiniARTmuseum.

The SWR paid us a visit at the CMT, the biggest holiday fair. See for yourself!

"Women Power" will take place on 22.02.2020, from 10:00 - 18:00.

France 3, the third largest television channel in France, last week broadcast on the PrimeTime TV show "Belle Epoque" 1890-1914 various themes reminiscent of that time, including seaside resorts.

Join in and win 3 x 1 prize packages! One overnight stay each in the DeLuxe-Penthouse "BikiniCUBE" of the BEST WESTERN Hotel Bad Rappenau for 2 persons incl. breakfast and 2 tickets for the newly opening BikiniARTmuseum.

As well as a lecture by Marie Helbing from the Landesmuseum Stuttgart: "Bikini in the Spotlight - How the two-part catwalk conquered".

The marketing community "A6-Boulevard" has formed with nine highly attractive visitor magnets: Hockenheimring, Tripsdrill Adventure Park, Experimenta Heilbronn, Therme & Badewelt Sinsheim, RappSoDie Bad Rappenau, Klima Arena, Bad Friedrichshall Salt Mine and BikiniARTmuseum Bad Rappenau.

In the vote of Radio Ton Janara won with an overwhelming majority in front of "Ante Vitoria". Thus the almost 10m high and widely visible symbolic figure of the world's first swimwear museum has a name. Janara comes from the language of the original inhabitants of Amazon and means "princess of sweet water". Surprisingly the international interest.

Curious and never thematized. At the presentation of the new director of the BikiniARTmuseum, which opens in January, the initiators revealed something in the lively discussion that could only have been experienced in the museum.

The lecture by Dr. Viola Hofmann (Seminar für Kulturanthropologie des Textilien/ TU Dortmund) takes up the discourse around the bikini and shows what we can learn about cultural contexts by questioning seemingly banal everyday things and pleads for the relevance of fashion objects in museum space.

It was the beginning of Nazi rule and the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws, which meant forced sale and emigration for many Jewish entrepreneurs.

Provocative & so feminist - it's the birthday of the bikini. Probably the most scandalous garment in history finally gets a home.

On the area of the Best Western Hotel Bad Rappenau, directly in the exit area of the A6, junction Bad Rappenau, the foundation stone was laid for the hotel extension and the construction of the world's first Swimwear Museum called "BikiniARTmuseum".

We can proudly announce that we are now also represented in Rio de Janeiro and have opened an office there. Rio de Janeiro is very closely related to swimwear and is often called the capital of the bikini. On the legendary beach at the Copacabana several bikini trends have already been established worldwide.

In the heart of Munich, at Marienplatz, an oversized advertising poster is currently causing a sensation.