Altmark Museum

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The museum from Schadewachten Street

The Altmärkisches Museum is a local museum in Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt . It is named after the Altmark region, whose history it presents, and is located in the buildings of the former St. Catherine's Monastery .

history

In 1888 members of the Altmärkisches Heimatverein founded the museum. The basis of the collection came from the noble family von Alvensleben , the superintendent Müller, the secret medical councilor Friedrich Haacke and the former literary association in Stendal. Initially, the museum was located in the upper cloister of the Stendal Cathedral and at other locations in Stendal. After the Second World War, Rudolf Langhammer ran the museum. In 1963 the museum moved into the former St. Katharinen monastery on Schadewachten.

In 2008, 6,000 people visited the museum.

building

St. Katharinen with the Altmark Museum (far right)

The museum building is a multi-storey, neo-Gothic brick building in downtown Stendal. It is part of the former St. Catherine's Monastery, of which the late Gothic church , consecrated in 1468, and parts of the cloister that connects the two buildings have been preserved. The church is used as the "Musikforum Katharinenkirche" for concerts, conferences and exhibitions. Museum visitors can visit the monastery buildings and the monastery garden behind .

Collection and events

The focus of the collection is on the prehistory and early history of the eastern Altmark, Romanesque and Gothic sacred exhibits and the history of the city of Stendal. There are also special exhibitions and educational museum offers, especially for school classes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description at museum-digital.de, with links to parts of the collection , accessed on January 3, 2013
  2. ↑ Description at sammlung-haupt.de (archive version from 2014)
  3. ^ Education portal Stendal ( Memento from September 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 3, 2013
  4. ↑ Description at mv-sachsen-anhalt.de, information in the caption , accessed on January 3, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 2.5 ″  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 47.8 ″  E