Altona Museum

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Altona Museum
Altonaer Museum 2014-02-10.jpg
Data
place Museumstrasse 23, Hamburg-Altona
Art
historical Museum
architect Heinrich Reinhardt and Georg Süßenguth from Berlin
opening February 1863 (foundation),
September 16, 1901 (building inaugurated)
operator
management
Anja Dauschek
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-058811

The Altonaer Museum is a historical museum in Hamburg . It emerged from the municipal museum of the independent city of Altona until 1938 .

history

In February 1863 the Altona pastor Georg Schaar founded a private company with other citizens - among them the natural scientist Carl Christian Gottsche and the shipowner Ernst Dreyer - to set up a museum, which was then built at Palmaille 112. It initially had mainly botanical collections. In 1888 it was briefly closed due to failure of the public interest and later taken over by the city. Altona, which had developed into an industrial city with over 140,000 inhabitants (1890), wanted to present itself in representative facilities, which at that time also included a museum.

Otto Lehmann

At Kaiserplatz (today: Platz der Republik / Museumstrasse), between the new town hall and the new main train station, a representative new building was built (architects: Reinhardt and Süssenguth from Berlin), which was inaugurated on September 16, 1901. For its expansion, the Altona teacher Otto Lehmann developed a concept that placed Schleswig-Holstein regional and folklore at the center of the "Museum for the People's Education" and thus set itself apart from the museums in the neighboring city of Hamburg, which had a rather large-scale claim ("Das Gateway to the World ”). On April 1, 1899, Lehmann was appointed the first full-time director of the facility, now known as the Altona Museum , and held this position until October 31, 1931. In 1906 he was awarded the title of professor. In 1909 he was a founding member of the Altona artist association .

The museum was intended to bring visitors closer to the development of Schleswig-Holstein in its dependence on nature and society through natural and cultural-historical exhibits, which could also consist of replicas and stagings ("life pictures"); For this concept, clarity was more important than the completeness of scientific collections. It was also unusual for the time that the Altona Museum provided exhibition space for young contemporary artists, published museum guides on individual topics and operated a museum café (“refreshment room”) for visitors.

Since the concept was met with a considerable number of visitors, the museum was expanded to double its size on the occasion of the city's 250th anniversary in August 1914.

In 1998/99, the state-sponsored museum was transferred to the Altona Museum in Hamburg - North German State Museum under public law , and finally, on January 1, 2008, it became part of the Hamburg Historical Museum Foundation .

management

Lehmann's successor was Hubert Stierling in 1932 , who was in charge of the company until 1949. Günther Grundmann followed him from 1950 to 1959. In 2013, Hans-Jörg Czech followed Torkild Hinrichsen and Bärbel Hedinger . Anja Dauschek took over the management on January 1, 2017.

Departments and Younger Development

Historic ship carpentry

The Altonaer Museum owned

  • botanical and zoological collections
  • a geological department (for which Magnus Weidemann created five wall paintings in 1925)
  • Collections of buildings and utensils typical of Schleswig-Holstein and Altona, in particular:
    • Shipbuilding and ship types
    • fishing
    • Farmhouse types and parlors
    • Costumes

Mid-1970s decided the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , the museum (in particular the collections of its natural history collections conches and fossil mollusks and the Herbarium) at the Hamburg University, the prehistoric and early historic holdings of the Harburg Helms-Museum give must, and thus deprived the Altona Museum of one of its conceptual pillars. A fire in 1980 severely damaged the building and its inventory. As a result, the museum was partially realigned and the exhibition space was enlarged to around 8,500 m², for which the neighboring, former watchmaking college , built by Gustav Oelsner in 1928, was used.

On January 1, 1999, the museum was founded on the basis of the law on the establishment of museum foundations of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Hamburg Museum Foundation Act - HmbMuStG) of December 22, 1998 with the branch offices

transferred to the sponsorship of the foundation public law Altonaer Museum in Hamburg - North German State Museum and finally on January 1, 2008 part of the foundation historical museums Hamburg . In November 2009, the newly designed foyer of the Altona Museum was opened for three million euros.

Since 2001 the Altonaer Museum has had a fourth branch, the Heine House in Heine Park on Elbchaussee . The garden house built by Salomon Heine in 1835 is used for special exhibitions and other events.

The children's book house in the Altona Museum is an independent institution in the main building .

After the resignation of First Mayor Ole von Beust on August 25, 2010, the new Senate Ahlhaus decided to close the museum on December 31, 2010 in order to save 3.5 million euros per year. However, this did not happen after public protests. At a so-called cultural summit on October 27, 2010, it was decided to work out a new concept for the entire Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation under the newly appointed board member Kirsten Baumann , which Baumann presented just under a year later. The SPD Senate Scholz I , in office from March 2011, decided on a different concept, which also did not close the Altona Museum. In 2013 the fire protection systems were renewed.

In 2018, the federal budget committee approved 19.5 million euros for the redesign of the museum.

literature

  • Jan Vahlenkamp: Memory in an open heart . In: Hamburg History Live 2018/03, pp. 90-105, ISBN 978-3-946677-24-6 . ( PDF )
  • Torkild Hinrichsen (Ed.): In Otto's head. The Altona Museum 1901 to 2001 and the exhibition concept of its first director Otto Lehmann , Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg / Munich 2001, ISBN 3-935549-04-0 .
  • Gerhard Kaufmann: The Altonaer Museum in Hamburg. In: Wolfgang Vacano / Kurt Dohrmann (ed.): Altona - Hamburg's historical gem with a future. Altona Citizens' Association, Hamburg 1989.
  • Torkild Hinrichsen: From a local museum to an educational institution. On the founding history of the Altona Museum , In: mitarbeit , Zeitschrift der Freunde des Museum der Arbeit eV, Hamburg 2010, pp. 28–31, ISSN  1865-0406
  • Under “Small Notes” in the Altonaer Nachrichten of February 12, 1865, page 1, (contemporary report) digitized

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Semper , Dr. [Adolph Georg Jacob] v. Thaden , W. [Wilhelm] Pustau, H. Siemsen, W. [Wilhelm] Knauer and W. [Wilhelm] H. [Hermann] Nopitsch ( Submitted under , in: Altonaer Nachrichten of February 21, 1863, page 1)
  2. ↑ Hans-Jörg Czech new director of the Altona Museum , in: Die Welt from April 27, 2013
  3. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost: Expert Anja Dauschek (49) Altonaer Museum has a new boss , July 20, 2016
  4. ↑ HmbMuStG HmbGVBl. 1998, pp. 333-337 pdf ; Statutes of the foundation dated January 5, 1999 landesrecht.hamburg.de
  5. ↑ Press release of the Hamburg cultural authority from November 15, 2010
  6. ^ Foundation boss Baumann resigns , in: Die Welt, September 26, 2011
  7. ↑ Federal government gives 19.5 million euros for Altona Museum. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 8, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2020 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 56 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 4 ″  E