Anna Göldi Museum

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Anna Göldi Museum
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place Ennenda
Art
Cultural history museum
opening 20th August 2017
management
Website
«Hänggiturm» Ennenda (behind the chimney) with Glärnisch
«Hanging tower» Ennenda, interior

The Anna Göldi Museum ( original spelling ) is dedicated to the fate of the maid Anna Göldi , who was executed in Glarus in 1782 . It was opened on August 20, 2017 in Ennenda ( Canton Glarus , Switzerland).

Permanent exhibition

The story of Anna Göldi is presented in a historical and current context. Visitors are led from one themed island to the other: “ Witch Mania ”, “Network of Power”, “Enlightenment”, “Journalism”, “Culture of Remembrance”, “Rehabilitation”.

The centerpiece of the multimedia exhibition is the witch trial, which is well documented by the detailed torture protocols, and its main characters, the Tschudi family and whistleblower Johann Melchior Kubli , who leaked confidential documents to the German journalist Heinrich Ludewig Lehmann. All around there are thematic islands that deepen the historical material, namely «Network of Power», «Age of Enlightenment», «Glarus in the 18th Century», «Publications and Representations on the Witch Trial», «Rehabilitation» and «Human Rights in Today's Time» , a topical issue that is of great importance in the museum. The studbook of journalist Lehmann, which was discovered in Germany in 2006 by author and lawyer Walter Hauser , will be shown comprehensively for the first time . A few weeks after Anna Göldi's execution, all of the main actors in the witch trial were immortalized in it with their own handwriting.

Temporary exhibitions

The museum has temporary exhibitions as well as educational and cultural events. There is a lecture room for events.

  • September 27, 2017: Exhibition and discussion by the human rights organization “Schutz Faktor M” under the title “My right, my story”

building

The museum is housed in the listed hanging tower in Glarus-Ennenda, a landmark of the 19th century Glarus textile industry. On August 13, 2020, the redesigned tower, which also serves as an indicator, was unveiled.

organization

The Anna Göldi Foundation is primarily responsible as the sponsor and owner . More than 80 percent of the museum is financed by private funds and supported by the canton of Glarus and the local community and was designed by raumprodukt GmbH in Zurich in collaboration with a specialist committee.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opening of the Anna Göldi Museum - Swiss Museum Pass. Retrieved November 28, 2017 (German).
  2. ^ Protection factor M - an information campaign on the protection of human rights in Switzerland. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ https://stgallen24.ch/articles/19740-anna-goeldi-turm-in-glarus-enthuellt . Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ Complete list: Fons Margarita, Curti Foundation, Markant Foundation, Anne-Marie Schindler Foundation, Garbef Foundation, Evangelical Church, Canton Zurich, Walter Haefner Foundation, Sandoz Family Foundation, Schlittler Informatik-Dienstleistungen GmbH, Swisslife Perspektiven, Garden Wing Foundation, Otto Gamma Foundation, Daniel Jenny & Co, Hans Eberle AG, Municipality of Glarus South, Municipality of Glarus North [1]

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