State Archaeological Collection

**State Archaeological Collection - Museum of Prehistory and Early History**
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Data
place	Munich
Art	Archeology museum
opening	October 14, 1885
management	Rupert Gebhard
Website	www.archaeologie-bayern.de
ISIL	DE-MUS-098413

Entrance area (2013)

Lettering on the main building (2006)

One of the hay pillars in front of the main entrance of the Archaeological State Collection 2006

Exhibition "Roman Kitchens and Table Culture". Archaeologists cook according to ancient Roman recipes (1998)

The Archaeological State Collection ( Prehistoric State Collection until 2000 ) in Munich is the central Bavarian state museum for prehistory and early history . The museum is currently undergoing a general renovation and is expected to reopen in 2022.

history

On October 14, 1885, the Prehistoric Collection was founded as an independent department of the Conservatory of the Paleontological Collection (today the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology ). On February 7, 1889, as the Conservatory of the State's Prehistoric Collection , it was directly subordinated to the General Conservatory of Natural Science Collections in the Kingdom of Bavaria . The institute was founded by the physiologist and anthropologist Johannes Ranke (1836–1916), a nephew of the historian Leopold von Ranke . As part of his teaching activities at the University of Munich, the doctor and natural scientist had acquired a private teaching collection with originals and replicas of prehistoric objects from Bavaria, which he donated to the Bavarian state from March 11 to April 7, 1885 after a successful exhibition he organized .

Ranke, who was appointed honorary director of the Prehistoric Collection , founded the Museum Association for Prehistoric Antiquities of Baierns in early 1885 . In autumn 1885, the relevant holdings of the Royal Ethnographic Museum were incorporated into the new institute , and a collection of important cave and burial mound finds from Franconian Switzerland was acquired with funds from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1885 and 1886 .

After Ranke's Institute became independent, there were three museums or museum departments in Munich that collected prehistoric and early historical finds in Bavaria. Johannes Ranke's plans for a uniform solution had initially failed. It was not until 1927 that the Historical Association of Upper Bavaria and in 1934 the Bavarian National Museum decided to hand over their prehistoric holdings to the special state museum. From 1939 onwards, the holdings, whose museum rooms in the Alte Akademie (also Wilhelminum in Neuhauser Strasse) were destroyed in 1944 and which were then housed in the Bavarian National Museum until 1975, could no longer be presented to the public in a permanent exhibition.

From February 1976, the various departments in a new museum building designed by the architects Helmut von Werz (1912–1990), Johann-Christoph Ottow (1922–2012), Erhard Bachmann (* 1939) and Michel Marx (* 1939) were able to work Reinforced concrete with rust-forming Corten steel facade to be opened at the English Garden . Hans-Jörg Kellner , head of the Prehistoric State Collection from 1960 to 1984, had campaigned for a modern archaeological state museum with its own building for many years - most recently with the Association of Friends of Bavarian Prehistory and Early History , which he initiated in 1973 . On May 11, 2000, under its director Ludwig Wamser (since 1995) , the museum was renamed the “State Archaeological Collection” at his own request: “At the opening of the state exhibition 'The Romans between the Alps and the North Sea', Art Minister Zehetmair justified the renaming with the fact that the the old name no longer correctly characterizes the museum. "

The general renovation of the museum building and the addition of an additional special exhibition room are currently underway. The museum building on Lerchenfeldstrasse is therefore expected to be closed until 2020. Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos created the design concept which, in addition to the energetic renovation, also envisages the expansion of the museum by a 700 m² underground special exhibition hall. However, the nine branch museums spread across the Free State of Bavaria are still open.

Directors

1885–1916: Johannes Ranke (1836–1916)
1917–1934: Ferdinand Birkner (1868–1944)
1934–1945 and 1948–1953: Friedrich Wagner (1887–1963)
1953–1960: Otto Kunkel (1895–1984)
1960–1984: Hans-Jörg Kellner (1920–2015)
1984–1994: Hermann Dannheimer (1929–2020)
1995–2010: Ludwig Wamser (* 1945)
since February 2010: Rupert Gebhard (* 1961)

Exhibition focus

Statue of Mars by Eining (2015)

The museum documents the prehistory of Bavaria with the Stone Age , the Bronze Age , the Iron Age , the Celts and the Roman Age , as well as the early history of Bavaria with the Migration Period and the early Middle Ages . The following time is then presented in the Bavarian National Museum .

The highlights of the collection include figurative representations from the Old and New Stone Age, grave and depot finds from the Bronze Age and burial equipment from the Iron Age. The Celtic coin treasures and the works of Celtic cabaret, including from the oppidum of Manching , as well as many testimonies from Roman times in Bavaria, when Rome set up the provinces of Raetien and Noricum south of the Danube, are also significant . The subsequent Bavarian period is also represented by outstanding works. In addition, the museum presents constantly changing exhibitions, for example the 500-year-old dry mummy of an Inca girl from Peru or Chile until the end of 2014 , which for 30 years until 2007 was mistaken for the bog body of a 20-year-old girl from the 16th century from the Dachau moss was held.

The renovation of the museum began in autumn 2016 and is expected to last until 2021. The museum building in Munich is closed for the duration of the renovation.

Restoration workshops

The museum has its own work area for archaeological restoration in order to save finds from further deterioration and to make them publicly accessible for scientific processing or presentation in the museum. The workshop also carries out authenticity checks on objects and exhibits in question. Another focus of work is basic research into the properties of ancient materials and today's working materials and preservatives.

Special exhibitions

In addition to the permanent exhibition, there is usually a large special exhibition annually in cooperation with other museums; Examples:

2001: "Magic, Myth, Power - Gold of the Old and New World"
2005: "The World of Byzantium "
2006: "The last hours of Herculaneum "
2008: "Limes World Heritage - Rome's border on the Main"
2009: “Luxury and Decadence. Roman life on the Gulf of Naples "
2010: "People and Things"
2013: "Ceramic Inspirations"
2014: "Ötzi - News from the ice mummy"
2015: “Cyclades - Early Art in the Aegean” in cooperation with the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
2016: "Past and Future". This is the last exhibition before the planned renovation. It presents the collection and exhibition history from the Prehistoric State Collection to the Archaeological State Collection and the history of the museum's construction.

State exhibitions are presented at irregular intervals with various cooperation partners:

1988: " Bajuwaren - From Severin to Tassilo 488–788"
1993: "The Celtic Millennium "
2000: "The Romans between the Alps and the North Sea - the civilizing legacy of a European military power"
2001: "Magic, Myth, Power - Gold of the Old and New World"
2013: " Alexander the Great "

Branch museums

Branch offices of the State Archaeological Collection are located in:

Web links

Commons : State Archaeological Collection - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ museum homepage. Accessed January 21, 2020 .

^ The Royal Ethnographic Museum in Munich emerged from the United Collections at the end of 1867 . This " rarity cabinet " , initiated by Ludwig I in 1842 and housed in the Hofgarten gallery building , became increasingly out of date after the Bavarian National Museum was founded in 1855. The Ethnographic Museum was initially headed by the geographer Moritz Wagner (1813–1887). At the end of 1900 it moved to the former building of the Bavarian National Museum on Maximilianstrasse, was renamed the Royal Museum of Ethnology , in 1919 the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich and in 2014 the Museum of Five Continents . For the history of Munich's museums see Michael Kamp: The Museum as a Place of Politics. Munich museums in the 19th century (PDF; 1.18 MB) , dissertation, University of Munich 2002.

^ The Prehistoric State Collection under a new name. In: Messages from the Friends of Bavarian Pre- and Early History. No. 95 of September 24, 2000 ( Memento of May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art : "Prehistoric State Collection" in future under a new name, press release, May 11, 2000 ( Memento of November 3, 2004 in the Internet Archive )

↑ SÖDER: ARCHAEOLOGICAL STATE COLLECTION MUNICH BECOMES ACCESSIBLE. (No longer available online.) In: Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, for Land Development and Home. Archived from the original on July 18, 2016 ; Retrieved July 18, 2016 .

↑ The mummy from the Inca period , press release of the State Archaeological Collection 1/2014 (accessed on February 28, 2014)

↑ Home - Archaeological State Collection Munich. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .

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[1] museum homepage. Accessed January 21, 2020 .