District Museum
A Bezirksmuseum (also Bezirksmuseum ) is an institution , which is a collection of exhibits, preferably from a localized District ( District of ) or ( municipality [area] ), makes available to the public. The term in the first meaning is mainly used in Austria . In rural areas one speaks more of a local museum .
Most of the time, visitors are charged an entrance fee that is used to preserve the exhibits and the rooms in which they are housed. The aim of a district museum is always to inform visitors about a district or district.
District museums preferably show antiquarian writings, books, pictures and everyday objects from bygone times and thus offer a lively impression of the way of life at that time and the development of a district.
history
District museums were established in Vienna at the beginning and middle of the 20th century. At that time they were the first of their kind. These museums were mainly run on a voluntary basis and mostly by teachers to support teaching. These were institutions that very often consisted of private collections and were sometimes exhibited in private rooms. In 1936 the Viennese magistrate issued an ordinance that only those district museums are funded that are maintained by an association. On the one hand, this led to the abandonment of a few small museums, but on the other hand, smaller collections were also merged and exhibited in more orderly fashion.
The first museum that set itself the task of professionally representing the history of a district as a real district museum was opened in Vienna in 1923 by Hans Pemmer and Karl Hilscher .
In 1964 the association “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wiener Bezirksmuseen” was established as an umbrella organization and legal entity for 23 district museums and six special museums.
Today there are district museums, at least in German-speaking countries, very often.
District museums in Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Germany
- District Museum Marzahn-Hellersdorf (Berlin)
- FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum (Berlin)
Austria
- District Museum of the Inner City (1st district of Vienna)
- District Museum Leopoldstadt (2nd district of Vienna)
- District Museum Landstrasse (3rd district of Vienna)
- District Museum Wieden (4th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Margareten (5th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Mariahilf (6th district of Vienna)
- District museum new building (7th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Josefstadt (8th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Alsergrund (9th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Favoriten (10th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Simmering (11th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Meidling (12th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Hietzing (13th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Penzing (14th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Ottakring (16th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Hernals (17th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Währing (18th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Döbling (19th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Brigittenau (20th district of Vienna)
- District Museum Floridsdorf (21st district of Vienna)
- District Museum Donaustadt (22nd district of Vienna)
- District Museum Liesing (23rd district of Vienna)
- District Museum Mödling (Mödling, for the Mödling district )
Switzerland
- District Museum Höfli (Bad Zurzach)