Windjammer Museum

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Windjammer Museum
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The Windjammer Museum in Barth
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place Barth coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′ 13.6 ″  N , 12 ° 43 ′ 26.6 ″  EWorld icon
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opening September 2017
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Windjammer Museum e. V.
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The Windjammer Museum is a shipping museum in Barth in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania that deals with the history of sailing . It opened in September 2017 and is run by an association. It shows objects from the Reeckmann collection , the core of which is formed by hundreds of ship portraits as paintings and drawings , so-called captain pictures , and ship dioramas .

history

The museum building and Barther monument at Hafenstrasse 22 was built in 1895 as a residential building for the Wendt brothers and later sold to the sawmill owner Teetz (Teetzsche Villa). During the GDR era , the house was administered by the local authority and the floor plan of the house was changed so that it could be used as an apartment building. In 2016 and 2017, the building was renovated in accordance with a listed building. The exhibitions were designed and set up from April to August 2017. Museum operations began on September 16, 2017.

The private collection

The Reeckmann Collection , which was built up by the owners of the Barther shipyard, is a collection of historical ship portraits from the 19th and early 20th centuries and is said to be "the largest collection of captain's pictures in Germany". It is divided into two main areas: the ship portrait as a painting or drawing, so-called captain's pictures, and the ship portraits in the special form as a ship diorama. The collection of ship portraits is supplemented by numerous copperplate engravings, maps, nautical equipment, landscape paintings and photographs.

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition of captain's pictures on the ground floor:

Around 170 so-called captain pictures from the Reeckmann Collection are shown in this exhibition area. The works were created between 1807 and approx. 1935 and mainly show sailing ships rigged as barque , brig , full ship or schooner , which were mainly based in Germany, but also in other countries. Ships from Western Pomerania are a particular focus . The exhibition shows works by the following ship portraits and marine painters :

  • John Henry Mohrmann
  • Richard Ball Spencer
  • Hugo Schnars-Alquist
  • Fritz Stoltenberg
  • Alfred Jensen
  • Reuben Chappell
  • Julius Gregersen
  • Jacob Spin
  • Felice Polli
  • TG Purvis
  • Dirk Anton Teupken
  • Tomaso De Simone
  • Mathieu Antoine Roux Junior
  • Louis Francois Prosper Roux
  • Lorenz Petersen
  • Jakob Petersen
  • Heinrich Andreas Sophus Petersen
  • Christian Ferdinand Möller
  • Ole Johnson
  • Siegfried Brüggemann
  • Jacob Ahrend Hinrich Böttger
  • Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Stoll

Permanent exhibition of ship dioramas on the upper floor:

These three-dimensional depictions of ships in the showcase, mainly made as waterline models, belong, like ships in bottles , to the characteristic handicrafts of sailors of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In total, around 300 of these ship dioramas from different countries are presented in the exhibitions of the Windjammer Museum,

Current exhibitions on shipping history:

  • From Western Pomerania into the world
  • The last queens of the sea

Web links

Commons : Windjammer-Museum Barth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Windjammer-Museum e V .: Articles of Association of the Windjammer-Museum e. V. Accessed April 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Captains looking for port , Ostsee-Zeitung from October 16, 2007, accessed on April 8, 2019
  3. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung: Windjammer Museum opened. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  4. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung: Windjammer Museum opens new permanent exhibitions. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .