Beatles Museum Hall

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Entrance sign at the museum

The Beatles Museum is a museum in Halle (Saale) that initially showed exhibits from an earlier traveling exhibition by the Liverpool music band The Beatles . In the meantime, the exhibition has been expanded by about three times and documents the time of the band from its foundation (1960) to its dissolution (1970) as well as the solo careers of the band members.

history

Beatles Museum in Halle

Museum founder Rainer Moers began collecting everything there was about the Beatles in 1964. From 1975 the collection was shown as a traveling exhibition in around 25 cities in Germany and abroad. At the end of the 1970s there were also talks with the GDR about showing the exhibition in Berlin , which ultimately led to the exhibition being shown in Hungary in 1982, in Budapest's Nep Stadium. More than 20,000 visitors came, many of them from the GDR. From 1989 in Cologne (twin town of Liverpool) on an area of ​​almost 60 m². On July 31, 1999, the Beatles Museum in Cologne was closed and reopened six months later in Halle. The museum founders: Rainer Moers (in Cologne and Halle) and Matthias Bühring (in Halle), who died in October 2000.

When looking for a permanent location, the decision was made in favor of the Handel city ​​of Halle. After previous renovation, the Alter Markt 12 building was handed over to its new use on April 8, 2000. Initially there was around 350 m² of exhibition space, now it's almost 600 m². It is the oldest of its kind; since 2007 on three floors. In April 2009 it was agreed that the museum would remain in its traditional location in Halle for at least ten more years. In 2013 an agreement was signed that the Beatles Museum would remain in the city on the Saale.

collection

Around 3500 exhibits are shown. However, that is only a fifth of the collection. More are in depots. You can see photos, newspaper articles, fan souvenirs, autographs , posters, curiosities, Beatles postage stamps, a puzzle, and there are also visual and acoustic exhibits such as films and music on records from 1960 to today, some of which are rare . Some of the presentations are arranged chronologically, for example in the 70s room, 80s room or in the Sgt.-Pepper room. Films and listening stations complete the exhibition. The solo careers of the Beatles in the 1980s and 1990s are also documented. A group photo with the original signatures of the four mushroom heads on the back is one of the most valuable exhibits in the collection.

The Beatles Museum has around 20,000 visitors a year. It is largely financed by entrance fees, sales from the mail order business with Beatles products and the Beatles magazine THINGS , which appears once or twice a month.

The comparable public and also very large exhibition “The Beatles Story” is located in the Albert Docks in Liverpool. With 7700 exhibits, a museum in Buenos Aires has a similarly large inventory as the museum in Halle. In the meantime the “ Beatlemania Hamburg ” museum has been closed, in which around 1000 exhibits could be seen.

Museum building

Stumbling block for Wolfgang Brühl (1927–1941)

Today's exhibition building was built in 1708 as a town house and was the home of the wealthy Pfänner Karl-Heinrich Reichhelm (1650–1724). It is considered to be one of the most impressive baroque residential buildings in the old town of Halle . It has an elaborately designed staircase and numerous stucco ceilings .

From 1895 the building served as a monastery for unmarried daughters of judges and poor girls. The institution (Assessor-Müller-Stift) was founded by the widow of a senior judicial officer. After 1945, the house housed a kindergarten , among other things . Since April 2000 it has housed the Beatles Museum. The various exhibits are presented in 17 rooms.

A stumbling block in front of the museum reminds of Wolfgang Brühl (1927–1941), who lived here and was abducted to the Bernburg killing center in 1941 due to a disability and gassed.

literature

Matthias Bühring, Rainer Moers, Claus Dieter Meier et al. : The Beatles. History and chronology . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-88619-698-4 .

Web links

Commons : Beatles Museum Halle  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Beatles Story , accessed November 17, 2012
  2. ^ Largest collection of Beatles memorabilia , accessed November 17, 2012
  3. ↑ destinet.de: BEATLEMANIA Hamburg closes June 29, 2012, accessed on December 5, 2012
  4. ↑ Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietsch: Architectural Guide Halle an der Saale . Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3496012021 ; P. 22
  5. ^ Michael Pantenius: Halle (Saale) . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2010, ISBN 9783898127288 ; Pp. 49-50
  6. ^ Stumbling blocks in Halle, accessed on November 3, 2012

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 48.8 "  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 6"  E