District Museum Alsergrund

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The district museum Alsergrund on the 2nd floor of the Amtshaus Wien 9, Währinger Straße 43, has housed a newly designed exhibition collection, a special exhibition room, a "religion room" and memorials for the poets Erich Fried and Heimito von Doderer since 2016 .

prehistory

District Museum Alsergrund

The history of the Alsergrund district museum - now part of the ALSEUM - goes back more than a century. In 1903 the first home book Der Alsergrund was published once and now by the teacher Leopold Donatin as "geographical-historical object lesson" "for the children of the third grade school. In the 1920s it was to be reissued and a museum set up at the same time. This was the wish of District Chairman Josef Schober However, just as little was carried out as the project under his successor Fritz Erban. At that time, a working group that emerged in 1935 from the Alsergrund Workers' Education Association was planning a district museum.

In 1957 a museum association was set up under district chairman Johann Rajnoha, and he acted as its president. The first installation of the museum in two rooms in the house of the district administration took place in 1959. The museum director was the teacher Franz Zabusch, custodian elementary school senior teacher Hans Mück (until 1967) and the book printer owner Alfred Wolf. On his initiative and under his editorship, the first of 129 quarterly newsletters, Das Heimatmuseum Alsergrund , appeared in 1960 . Between 1966 and 1970 he published an extensive publication on the special exhibitions every year.

In 1968, Obermuseumsrat Ernst Donatin took over the management. In 1970 Alfred Wolf founded the Alsergrund gallery . As the first of its kind, it gave artists from the district free exhibition opportunities. In 1972, on the initiative of Ernst Donatin, the memorial for Heimito von Doderer (with parts of his home furnishings) was created. In 1973 the local history museum became a district museum. In the same year Ing. Alfred Wolf was appointed museum director (until 1991), as well as Dkfm. Philipp Jakob Formann and Helga Maria Wolf as curators.

The grammar school professor Wilhelm Urbanek has headed the Alsergrund district museum since 1991. In 1995 the establishment of the memorial for Erich Fried (with furniture from his study), the use of the bunker in the adjacent Arne Karlsson Park, in 2011 the establishment of the religious room (curator Dietmar Hübsch) and the establishment of the Sparefroh House in the courtyard pavilion ( Curator Renate Steinkellner). In 2015 the Liberation Museum was opened in the memorial bunker.

Redesign in 2016

In 2015 the art historian Matthias Bechtle developed a new concept. The various sub-areas are now grouped under the heading ALSEUM. Together with the ethnologist Helga Maria Wolf and the artistically active pedagogue Doris Wolf, he completely redesigned the display collection of the Alsergrund district museum in renovated rooms. The basic layout includes two halls, the architecture collection with original house signs, models and plans. The second showroom presents work and leisure, with a focus on the 19th century, in twelve chapters.

It begins with the theme of living - from suburban houses to municipal housing - and a little insight into the world of children from back then. The second showcase is dedicated to everyday life: shopping, kitchen appliances and hygiene. This forms the transition to the next focus. The legendary “Viennese laundry girls” were at home in the area around Sobieskiplatz. A memorial was to be erected for them, the cast of which can be seen here. The following showcases are reminiscent of handicrafts that have disappeared. The Alsergrund was a center of the “black art”, the book printing works, of which a platen printing press and a type case are a reminder. The saddler, wagon builder and later automobile manufacturer, such as the purveyors to the court Sebastian Armbruster and Ludwig Lohner, were located in Rossau. One of the last L 150 wage rollers can also be seen. The Oesterreichische Nationalbank is probably the most famous "large company" in the district. The porcelain manufactory is no longer located here - represented by a painted baroque plate - where famous artists worked. The following showcase is also about art and composers. It pays tribute to the "big four" of the Viennese Classic and shows some works by the Alsergrund painter and sculptor Ernst Eisenmayer .

The next section is devoted to light muse and entertainment, with exhibits from the Volksoper and the once numerous entertainment venues. Some flags and an ensign's uniform from the Rossau men's choir are an eye-catcher. On the front wall, chests of drawers contain other works of art and objects on the subject of medicine and research, keywords: Josephinum , AKH and chemical institutes. The penultimate showcase is titled Catastrophes and also reminds of the former Rabenstein execution site. The tour ends with the topic of traffic - from the Zeiselwagen to the Franz-Josefs-Bahn .

In addition to the permanent exhibition, the new ALSEUM brand includes a special exhibition room, memorials for the poets Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966) and Erich Fried (1921–1988), an extensive library, as well as the Sparefrohhaus and the " memory bunker " (Liberation Museum). The memory bunker with The Liberation Museum Vienna is located next to the museum in Arne-Karlsson-Park. The underground bunker is owned by the City of Vienna and has served as a storage room for MA 42 in recent years. The concept for the memorial bunker was developed in 2005 as part of the commemorative year by the Pedagogical Federal Academy in Vienna developed in cooperation with the Alsergrund district museum, students from the Erich-Fried-Realgymnasium and artists from the Artistic Adult Education Center / Vienna Art School. Since 2015 the Liberation Museum Vienna has been located in the bunker, which is a contribution to the contemporary history education of young people , interested citizens and guests of Vienna r placement work is of particular importance. The Liberation Museum works with the most important Austrian and Russian archives, the Vienna Museum, the Austrian National Library, the St. Petersburg City Archives, etc. and is supported by official organizations of the Austrian Republic and the signatory states to the State Treaty.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 15.7 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 17.5 ″  E