Historical museum Aurich
The historical museum is located in the East Frisian district town of Aurich . It is housed in the old chancellery and is a member of the East Friesland Museum Association . The Historical Museum guides you through the history of the city and East Frisia in six themed complexes: Geest and city , churches and monasteries , castle , the heyday of the citizens , East Frisia in war , the region and the middle center . Exhibits from history, art and culture in Aurich and East Frisia from the Stone Age to today are shown.
history
The first plans to set up a local history museum in Aurich were made in 1902. In 1923 a local history association was founded for this purpose. However, this did not succeed in raising enough funds. In addition, there was no greater public support for the project, so that the association finally gave up and only resumed after the Second World War. In 1949 a concept for a folklore museum was finally presented and in 1951 the East Frisian landscape made a building available for the museum. Nevertheless, the plan to set up a museum failed again.
In 1982, citizens of Aurich came together under the chairmanship of the then senior district director, Friedrich Schuver , to form a development association, on whose board all council parties were represented. The city made the old chancellery available for the museum. In order to allow the museum to expand in the future, the city also announced that the rooms in the extension would be used. From 1983 the city had the old chancellery rebuilt for the museum.
In the following years Hajo van Lengen , the then director of the East Frisian Landscape, was involved in developing the concept for the museum. This stipulated that “topics of the settlement, social and economic history of the Middle East Frisian Geest and its center, the old royal seat of Aurich, should be presented in the museum.” Initially, the museum only used rooms in the main building. By 1985, the regional studies show areas with a view of the churches, prehistory and early history, urban development, civil living culture, trade, commerce and transport, Conrad Bernhard Meyer, a master builder of the city , were created there on an area of around 190 square meters . The operators kept the attic free for changing special exhibitions. The Historical Museum was affiliated to the Museum Association of East Friesland . On July 5, 1985, the then Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture , Johann-Tönjes Cassens , opened the museum.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the rooms in the extension became vacant. This opened up opportunities for the museum to expand. Between 1992 and 1998 it was expanded and expanded according to a new concept. With the support of the state of Lower Saxony, a new administrative wing and a museum educational room were created. The first expansion of the permanent exhibition followed in 1996, initially with funds from the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung , before the museum could be redesigned and expanded again in 1998 with the help of a larger state grant. In the course of the third expansion in 2001, the new entrance area and the MachMit museum were created on the ground floor of the extension. Since then, the museum has 540 square meters of exhibition space and an event room of around 60 square meters for specialist lectures and seminars.
literature
- Brigitte Junge: From the treasure chest of East Friesland: Museum pieces tell stories , Sutton, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 3-9540014-4-6
Web links
- Official website of the Historical Museum Aurich
- The historical museum on the pages of the city of Aurich
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b museum-aurich.de: Museum history ( Memento from February 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e Brigitte Junge: Aurich history in the museum. Light into the darkness of earlier events / Brief history of the Aurich Museum ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed October 29, 2013.
- ↑ museum-aurich.de: From the history of the "Old Firm" . Accessed October 29, 2013.
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