Kempten Alpine Museum

Former royal stables in Kempten

The Alpine Museum is a branch of the Bavarian National Museum and is located in the Marstall in Kempten (Allgäu) . The focus of the museum is the history of the Alps , the history of mountaineering as well as the environment and nature. The collection and conception were set up and developed in cooperation with the German Alpine Association . The cultural office of the city of Kempten bears the running costs. The exhibition area of ​​the four upper floors is a total of 2200 square meters. The Alpine Museum was opened on August 1, 1991. After the Alpine Gallery was closed in 2015, the Alpine Museum has two more rooms on the ground floor.

exhibition

Room 1: The Alps as a habitat

Expedition sleigh with sails

• Holy Mountain / Pilgrimage / Orogeny
• Prehistory and Early History / Romans / Christianity
• Lifetime in the high mountains
• Drowned living space / craft and trade
• Paths across the Alps
• energy

Room 2: special exhibitions

• since March 2, 2013: Secret in the glacier ( Bonaventura Schaidnagl , Wildspitze )
• April 20 to November 13, 2011: Panorama - see the Allgäu mountains from above
• 2010: BergLeben! (Photographs by Manfred Felle )
• u. a.

Room 3: Natural history

• Flora / trees and forest
• Animals in the Alps
• Maps and reliefs

Room 4: alpinism

• From Horace-Bénédict de Saussure to Reinhold Messner
• Alpine clubs

Room 5: Hybrid forms of mountain sports

Winged altar (1515) BC Jakob Schick

• Hybrid forms
• safety
• Mountain rescue
• Mountains

Room 6: snowshoe and sledge

• Ski zero point Greenland

Room 7: ski collection

• Skiing from Wilhelm Paulcke , Mathias Zdarsky and Georg Bilgeri to this day

ground floor

Large special exhibition room

• from 2017, for example, the art exhibition in August and September as part of the Allgäu Festival Week

Small special exhibition room

• March 10 to November 12, 2017: Shining Middle Ages - from saints, craftsmen and altars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.alpenverein-kempten.de Allgäu-Kempten section of the German Alpine Club eV> The Alpine Museum. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
2. ^ Kempten Alpine Museum. In: historisches-alpenarchiv.de (accessed on June 19, 2013)
3. ↑ AlpinMuseum “Secret in the Glacier”. Accessed July 13, 2013.

literature

• Helmuth Zebhauser (Ed.) For the German Alpine Association : Manual of Alpine History in the Museum. Catalog of halls 2 - 7 of the Kempten Alpine Museum. DAV-Eigenverlag, Munich 1991, 347 pages, ISBN 3-9801742-6-3 . (outdated content)

Web links

• Museum page on the city of Kempten's website. Retrieved February 7, 2020 . 
• Page of the museum on the website of the Bavarian National Museum. Retrieved February 7, 2020 . 
• Permanent exhibition "Shining Middle Ages". Retrieved February 7, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 46.3 "  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 41.8"  E