Computer museum of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences
 Exterior view of the museum |
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| place | Kiel , Germany |
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| opening | June 14, 2011 |
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Markus Schack
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-225318 |
The Computer Museum of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences is a museum in the Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf district of Kiel . It opened on June 14, 2011.
Building and exhibition
The museum building is a four-storey bunker from the Second World War that was converted into a modern museum over the course of a year. On around 800 square meters, the computer museum shows around 360 exhibits from past decades of computer history. The spectrum ranges from the listed electromechanical relay computer Z11 from Zuse KG from 1958 and the first fully transistorized German computer Siemens 2002 to giants such as the 1.6 ton former supercomputer "Cyber 76" to the microcomputers of the 1990s.
A total of 16 media stations provide background information in the form of audio documents and films, and three emulation stations allow you to play old computer games on old computer systems that are true to the original. In the lecture hall on the ground floor, visitors can get in the mood for their museum visit with a specially produced 3D film .
The Berlin computer scientist Dr. Ralf Bülow. The spatial, light and color concept of the exhibition rooms was developed by a team of students from the “Spatial Strategies” department of the Muthesius Art College in Kiel under the direction of Ludwig Fromm and Michael Breda. Implementation: Fedor Sukatus (architect and scenographer, Berlin) and Ludwig Fromm. The driving force and overall director of the Computer Museum project was the Chancellor of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences , Klaus Michael Heinze. The museum is now operated by the Center for Culture and Science Communication at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences, and the director is Markus Schack.
The media dome , the Bunker-D culture and communication center , the Howaldtsche Metallgießerei industrial museum and the Kiel University of Applied Sciences computer museum, together with over 60 works of art in public space, form a cultural offering in Kiel-Dietrichsdorf that is known as the “Dietrichsdorf Culture Island”.
The bunker
prehistory
The bunker was built in 1941 for the civilian population of Dietrichsdorf, who suffered badly from the attacks of the Allied bombers. After the war, the bunker was softened by blasting several large openings in the walls. During the Cold War , the openings were concreted over again in the 1980s and the bunker was re-equipped to be available as a “public shelter” for 1,047 people in the event of war.
modification
In 2006 the state decided to buy the bunker from the federal government and to convert it into a computer museum for the Kiel University of Applied Sciences. When converting to a museum, the Kiel company Konopka again saw an approximately three meter wide and 13 meter high opening in the concrete wall of the bunker, which is a little more than two meters thick. The company's specialists saw out the wall section for the opening in several blocks, each weighing around 17 tons. A vertical ribbon of windows is now built into the opening.
The rear stairwell in the bunker originally only extended to the first floor. In order to meet the fire protection regulations, the stairwell had to be extended to the top floor. The room layout on the floors has been changed by sawing out walls and wall parts - also to create the space that was necessary to move the sometimes very large computer components into their place in the exhibition. In addition, the elevator shaft had to be sawed through the floors.
The floor in the entire entrance area was sawn out and replaced with a new floor around 60 centimeters lower. The step was necessary to make the entrance to the museum accessible. Originally, a short flight of stairs and a pressure lock connected at right angles led into the bunker. One of the two heavy steel doors of the pressure lock has been preserved - anyone who leaves the elevator in the reception area of the museum walks right past it.
The concrete sawing work took a total of around three months. Furthermore, the entire supply technology was renewed. Because the bunker is a listed building, all measures had to be coordinated with the responsible authorities. The building management Schleswig-Holstein (GMSH) was responsible for the conversion .
The total investment for the new computer museum amounted to around 3 million euros. The amount corresponds to the sum of money paid by the State of Schleswig-Holstein, contributions from sponsors and the equivalent of the work of voluntary supporters, for example the Förderverein Computermuseum Kiel e. V.
History of the collection
A private association laid the foundation for the computer collection at Kiel University of Applied Sciences. Under the name of the association “Schleswig-Holstein Museum for Computing and Writing Technology e. V. ”, the founding members committed themselves in December 1981 to the goal of protecting milestones in computer technology from being scrapped. As early as March 1982, the association opened Germany's first computer exhibition collection on the premises of today's Schleswig-Holstein data center.
In 1990 the association handed over the collection, which had grown considerably up to then, to the Kiel University of Applied Sciences and transformed into the “Förderverein Computermuseum Kiel eV”, which supports the collection and museum to this day. For lack of space and money, most of the hundreds of exhibits had to wait a long time in various magazines for their appearance in a real museum after they were taken over by the Kiel University of Applied Sciences. It wasn't until 2006 that the decision was made to buy the high-rise bunker on Eichenbergskamp from the federal government and convert it into a computer museum. In recent years, only a few pieces could provisionally be shown publicly in a barrack on campus or at traveling exhibitions.
Dates and numbers
- Start of conversion from bunker to museum: April 2010
- Official opening of the museum: June 14, 2011
- Open to the public from: June 15, 2011
- Exhibition space: around 800 square meters on four levels.
- 16 interactive media stations
- Three computer columns for emulating previous computer systems.
- Lecture room with 3D projector system on the ground floor.
- Number of exhibits: around 360
- Oldest original computer on display: Zuse Z11, built in 1958
- Oldest exhibit: Archimedes calculating machine (19 ......)
- heaviest original computer on display: Cyber 76 (1.6 tons)
- After the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn (6000 square meters, the largest computer museum in the world) and the corresponding departments of the Deutsches Museum in Munich (around 1400 square meters), the computer museum of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences is the third largest computer museum in Germany and the largest and most comprehensive in northern Germany.
The parties
- Project management: Klaus-Michael Heinze, Chancellor of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences
- Head of the Computer Museum: Markus Schack, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Center for Culture and Science Communication
- Scientific project leader: Dr. Ralf Bülow, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Center for Culture and Science Communication
- Exhibition design (scenography): Ludwig Fromm and Michael Breda with students from the "Spatial Strategies" department at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel. Implementation: Fedor Sukatus (architect and scenographer, Berlin)
- Technical implementation of media technology: Markus Schack, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Center for Culture and Science Communication
- Construction team: Jochen Trümper (foreman), Michael Nohns, Thobe Appel-Christiansen, Stefan Czech, Helge Küllsen, Igor Pevzner
Web links
- Computer museum of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences. Kiel University of Applied Sciences, accessed on December 9, 2012 .
- Detlef Borchers: Computer Museum Kiel: Sarcophagus of a lost world. heise online, June 9, 2011, accessed December 9, 2012 .
- Kristiana Ludwig: New computer exhibition in Kiel: Wired home. taz, June 15, 2011, accessed December 9, 2012 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 56.6 ″ N , 10 ° 10 ′ 47.5 ″ E