CHI Executive Director Rev. Dr. Daniel Harmelink mocks up one display cube for the upcoming exhibit “Luther Medals and Reformation Coins: Michigan Connections and Collectors.”

Upcoming Museum Exhibit on Collecting Reformation Coins and Medals

Upcoming Museum Exhibit on Collecting Reformation Coins and Medals PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 17, 2024 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. Concordia Historical Institute (CHI) houses the most extensive institutional collection of Reformation coins and medals outside of Germany. For 175 years, Missouri Synod Lutherans have collected these Reformation pieces as

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CHIQ v.94 no.2 Summer 2021

Summer 2021 CHI Quarterly

Tensions in North America? I thought this was a historical journal. Ah, this isn’t about current events but past historical conflict! Read on to learn about confessional tensions in North America from the past. The Summer 2021 Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly (Volume 94, no.2) contains three articles, two of which

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“Albrecht Dürer: Master Woodcut Artist of the German Renaissance”

The exhibit on Albrecht Dürer woodcuts includes forty-one of the fifty-seven woodcuts in the Small Passion and the Life of the Virgin series, both of which were put into book form in 1511. This is only the second time that the Institute has displayed its collection of Dürer prints. It

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