District Museum Meidling

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Meidling coat of arms

The Meidling District Museum of Vienna's 12th district is the oldest of its kind in Vienna and is located at Längenfeldgasse 13-15.

history

The district museum was founded in 1923 as the Meidlinger Heimatmuseum by a group of interested citizens under the direction of school councilor Karl Hilscher . A specially created association , whose president is always the respective district head , serves to support and promote the museum. The museum directors and their employees volunteer their free time for museum work.

The basic idea of ​​showing the history of the district in its own museum also included the support of local artists. The Meidlinger District Museum has therefore had its own gallery since the beginning .

After the proper establishment of the association in 1923, Karl Hilscher organized the first exhibition of the collected and donated objects in a classroom of the Singrienergasse 23 school. In the same year, the museum moved to three rooms at the Bischoffgasse 10 elementary school.
After Karl Hilscher's death in 1936, August Owner of new museum director.

Fire engine 1835

Despite the dissolution of associations after 1938, the Heimatmuseum Meidling was able to maintain museum operations under the patronage of the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna (now the Wien Museum ). In order to protect the collection from destruction in 1943–1945, it was relocated to Lower Austria .

After 1945, District Mayor August Fürst supported the reconstruction and re-erection of the museum. August Eigner died in 1950. As a result, no permanent leader could be found. For the next few years, interim managers ran the museum.

In 1955 the collection had to move to the elementary school at Nymphengasse 7. When district chairman Wilhelm Hradil took over the management of the district, he found a new director for the museum in 1960 in the person of the teacher and director Karl König. Karl König created the publication series “Meidling, Blätter des Bezirksmuseum” and began to bring the district's history to a wider public with lectures.

In 1971 the museum had to move again and was able to completely adapt the premises of the school at Kobingergasse 7 as a museum. It was to be the home of the museum for a little over 20 years.
After Karl König, Hermann Zucker followed in 1977 and Ernst Tschiedl as museum director in 1982, and in 1987 the museologist Vladimira Bousska took over the management.

In 1995 the museum was again forced to look for new quarters. The museum was included in the plans for the expansion of the area of ​​the 3rd Central Vocational School, Längenfeldgasse 13–15, for the Meidling Adult Education Center.
On September 12, 1997, the museum at Längenfeldgasse 13–15 was opened in a completely new layout and with contemporary museum technology.

Awards

Gallery & Collections

Willy Sale-Verlon, collage around 1950/60
Josef Wawra, 1893–1935

The Meidling Gallery, which is attached to the museum, shows artists from Meidling as well as key themes from the history of the district in temporary exhibitions.

The inventory of paintings , drawings and art prints goes back to the fact that artists exhibited in the district museum Meidling and donated one or more works to the museum.

In the “gallery in the staircase” there is a permanent exhibition dedicated to the popular artist Josef Wawra and his wife Josefine Wawra, a student of Tina Blau .

The museum has an extensive collection with a focus on handicrafts, everyday life, living conditions around the turn of the century, fire extinguishing systems and entertainment in Meidling with special attention to Carl Lorens , Hermann Leopoldi and Anton Krutisch .

Sheets of the Meidlinger District Museum

In the series “Meidling, Blätter des Bezirksmuseum” published since 1968, 80 issues (and several special issues) were published by 2017. The district history is scientifically processed in general and in detail (monographs). The booklets that were created through intensive research and editing of the district museum archive, but also through exhibition catalogs for the special exhibitions, mostly reached a volume of around 70 to 80 pages, especially since the mid-1990s.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bezirksmuseum Meidling in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 56 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 16 ″  E