German Museum Association

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German Museum Association
(DMB)
logo
legal form Volunteer Association
Seat In Halde 1
14195 Berlin
founding May 23, 1917

president Eckart Koehne
executive Director David Vuillaume
Website www.museumsbund.de

The German Museum Association ( DMB ) is a nationwide interest group for museums in Germany . It represents the interests of historical, cultural-historical, technical-historical, natural science museums and art museums as well as other types of museums.

The association is committed to creating and maintaining the basic content, personnel and financial requirements of museums, advises members as well as associations, foundations and authorities on museum-related topics and cooperates with regional museum offices and associations as well as with national and international organizations. In addition, he prepares statements and position papers on current topics, encourages the discussion of museum-specific questions in the context of conferences, workshops, etc., develops and coordinates projects with exemplary or sustainable character, initiates surveys and surveys and regularly publishes museum studies , bulletins and shopping guides for museums .

The association's work is carried out through the board of directors, through the office as well as through the professional groups and working groups of the association. The association works closely with the Institute for Museum Research in Berlin as well as with regional and international museum organizations.

history

Beginnings

At the beginning of the 20th century, the German museum landscape was in a lively discussion about its tasks and its self-image. As the center of cultural life, museums were inaugurated in many places and their function as research and educational institutions recognized. Two important conferences at this time were the conference of workers' welfare institutions on the theme of the museums as public education centers in 1903 and the art history congress in 1906. In this context, the foundation of the journal Museumskunde in 1905 was a first expression of the togetherness of the museum experts at that time. The initiative for this publication goes back to the art historian Karl Koetschau (1868–1949), who was then active in Dresden. It became the forum for German culture and museum policy and the mouthpiece of German museums.

At the suggestion of the museum directors Karl Koetschau , Gustav Pauli and Georg Swarzenski , 22 named directors of public German art and cultural history museums founded the German Museum Association on May 23, 1917 at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main . The cultural and museum-political tasks of the new professional and professional association were laid down in § 1 of the first statute:

"The purpose of the federal government is to amalgamate the German museums of art history and cultural history, to promote museum work and to represent the professional honor of museum officials, their duties and rights in public life."

In the first founding phase, membership in the Deutsches Museumsbund was limited to individuals; the manager for one year was the director of the inviting museum for the next annual conference.

After the decision had been taken in 1927 to set up a general association with specialist sections, the statutes of the German Museum Association were adopted in 1928 as the general organization of all museums.

From 1933 to 1945

The heads of the most important public collections of contemporary art were united within the association: Ernst Gosebruch , Hildebrand Gurlitt , Eberhard Hanfstaengl , Ludwig Justi , Gustav Pauli , Max Sauerlandt . But in the times of the Weimar Republic and the Nazi cultural policy, the most important museum directors - who acquired expensive works by French and other foreign artists - repeatedly came under criticism, were dismissed or taken on leave.

This development was noted with concern and publicly criticized at the association's meetings - but with no lasting effect. Werner Noack also announced at the annual conference in 1933 that there were no more closed conferences: "Today, the spirit of the new Germany and the discipline of National Socialist thought oblige us to conduct our negotiations as if they were taking place in public. "

Although the association sent out a questionnaire in September 1933 asking for arguments against ideological attacks, the association's adaptation to National Socialist rule went almost smoothly in the course of the first few years. Because without the prominent and agile individual members who headed the contemporary art collections, the association was no longer in a position to provide cultural and political impulses. The federal government was neither banned nor dissolved and continued to exist until 1945 under Chairman Noack.

From 1945 to 1989

During the time of National Socialism , the department for natural science museums in the German Museum Association was the longest active. It was also the first department to be revived in western Germany in 1949 after the Second World War . The cultural history museums and art museums followed in 1957. The association was then reconstituted on April 12, 1960 in Hanover at an extraordinary general meeting of these two specialist groups . At this time, in addition to personal membership, corporate membership had already been introduced, so that the association could function both as a staff association and as a professional association.

In the course of a structural transformation of the association, the two specialist groups gave up their previous independence and incorporated into the general association with the new version of the statutes on February 17, 1972 in Hanover. In the years that followed, the association developed its profile: advising political and cultural-political committees, issuing publications and carrying out public relations work for museums. The statistical survey of visitor numbers, which has been carried out regularly since 1976, was taken over by the Institute for Museum Studies (today: Institute for Museum Research ) from 1982 .

The German Museum Association took over the coordination of the International Museum Day, which has been celebrated since 1978 .

With the construction of the Berlin Wall , the final separation of the East and West German museums was completed and the Council for Museums was founded in the GDR in 1965. He was based at the Ministry of Culture and published the journal Neue Museumskunde . While the German Museum Association in the Federal Republic of Germany was the representative of German museums and maintained connections to the Standing Conference of Ministers of Culture , the German Association of Cities , the Science Council , the Foreign Office and UNESCO , it was the task of the Council for Museums to develop a unified socialist To promote museums.

Since 1989

At the association's annual meeting in 1990 in Kempten (Allgäu) , the association passed a resolution inviting museum representatives from the GDR to become members of the association. In the same year the regional museum associations were founded in the new federal states, followed in 1992 by the regional association of museums in Berlin.

The association has had its office at the seat of the incumbent president since 1975 and - after decades of discussion - a full-time management team since 1995. In 1997 the Berlin office was opened.

The association is financed through membership fees as well as project funds - currently the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) and other project-related partners.

In February 2006, the guidelines for standards for museums were published together with ICOM Germany .

President

Working groups and specialist groups

The seven working groups (AK) and seven specialist groups (FG) are central working bodies of the German Museum Association. They represent the various museum genres and areas in the museum.

  • Exhibition planning (AK)
  • Education and mediation (AK)
  • Conservation and Restoration (AK)
  • Migration (AK)
  • Press and Public Relations (AK)
  • Head of Administration (AK)
  • Volunteer Service (AK)
  • Archaeological Museums (FG)
  • Documentation (FG)
  • Open air museums (FG)
  • History museums (FG)
  • Cultural history museums and art museums (FG)
  • Natural Science Museums (FG)
  • Technical history museums (FG)

Publications

  • Museum studies. Holy-Verlag u. a., Berlin a. a .: First series (1905–1923 / 24, volumes 1–17); Second series (1929-1939, volumes 1-11); Third part (1960–1972 (1975), volumes 29–41; since 1977, volumes 42 ff.), ISSN  0027-4178 .
  • Bulletin. German Museum Association, Berlin / Dresden / Kassel since 1996, ISSN  1438-0595 ( online ).
  • The museum magazine. People, treasuries, stories. Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 2004–2010, ZDB -ID 2144942-9 ( online ).
  • Together with ICOM Germany (ed.): Standards for museums. Kassel / Berlin 2006 ( PDF ).
  • Together with the Federal Association of Museum Education (ed.): Quality criteria for museums: educational and mediation work. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811983-2-4 ( PDF ).
  • Together with ICOM Germany, ICTOP - International Committee for the Training of Personnel (Ed.): Museum Professions - A European Recommendation. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811983-3-1 ( PDF ).
  • Civic engagement in the museum. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811983-1-7 ( PDF ).
  • Together with ICOM Germany (Ed.): Guidelines for the scientific traineeship. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811983-4-8 ( PDF ).
  • Guide to the documentation of museum objects. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811983-6-2 ( PDF ).
  • Guide to creating a museum concept. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811983-7-9 ( PDF ).
  • Sustainable collecting. A guide to collecting and giving away museum items. Berlin / Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811983-9-3 ( PDF ).
  • Together with the BDK - Professional Association for Art Education, Federal Association of Museum Education, Federal Center for Political Education, Stiftung Mercator (publisher): schule @ museum - A handout for cooperation. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811983-8-6 ( PDF ).
  • Together with the Federal Association of Museum Education, Federal Competence Center for Accessibility (Ed.): The inclusive museum. Guide to Accessibility and Inclusion. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9811983-9-3 ( PDF ).
  • Recommendations for dealing with human remains in museums and collections. Berlin 2013 ( PDF ).
  • Museums, Migration and Cultural Diversity. Handouts for museum work. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816628-1-8 ( PDF ).
  • Guide for the scientific traineeship in the museum. Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-9816628-7-0 ( PDF ).
  • Guide to dealing with collections from colonial contexts. Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819866-0-0 ( PDF ).
  • Mainly audience! Visitor research for museum practice. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819866-1-7 ( PDF ).
  • Working professionally in the museum. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819866-5-5 ( PDF ).

literature

  • Wolfgang Klausewitz : 66 years of the German Museum Association. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7927-0789-6 .
  • Wolfgang Klausewitz: 90 years of the German Museum Association. A chronicle. In: Deutscher Museumsbund (ed.): Museum studies. Volume 82, Issue 1. Berlin 2017, ISSN  0027-4178 , pp. 19–41.
  • Conference of museum advisors in the federal states: Strong together for the museums. The cooperation of the German Museum Association with the museum advisors and museum associations in the federal states. In: Deutscher Museumsbund (ed.): Museum studies. Volume 82, Issue 1. Berlin 2017, ISSN  0027-4178 , pp. 16-18.
  • Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier: For the “Fighting for a New Museum Culture” - On the role of the German Museum Association in National Socialism. In: Tanja Baensch, Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier, Dorothee Wimmer (eds.): Museums in National Socialism. Actors - Places - Politics. (= Publications of the Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumgeschichte e.V. ). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-22408-0 , pp. 23–43.
  • Christian Saehrendt : Between the vernissage and the battle in the hall. The German Museum Association and its struggle for modern art 1925–1937. In: Deutscher Museumsbund (ed.): Museum studies. Volume 68, Issue 2. Berlin 2003, ISSN  0027-4178 , pp. 112-121.
  • Olaf Zimmermann : 100 years of the German Museum Association - angular, angular, dynamic and a successful lobbyist. In: Deutscher Museumsbund (ed.): Museum studies. Volume 82, Issue 1. Berlin 2017, ISSN  0027-4178 , pp. 14-15.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the German Museum Association. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Eckart Köhne is the new President of the German Museum Association. In: Museumsreport.de. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ New management at the Deutsches Museumsbund e. V .: David Vuillaume changes from the Swiss Association to the Museum Association. (PDF) In: Museumsbund.de. October 27, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ International Museum Day - About us. In: Museumstag.de. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Eckart Köhne re-elected as President of the German Museum Association. (PDF) In: Museumsbund.de. May 9, 2018, accessed March 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Specialist groups and working groups of the German Museum Association. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Exhibition planning working group. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Working group on education and mediation. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Conservation and Restoration Working Group. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Migration working group. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Press and Public Relations Working Group. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Administrative Management Working Group. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Volunteer working group. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Section Archaeological Museums. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Documentation specialist group. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Section open-air museums. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Section History Museums . In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  18. ^ Section for museums of cultural history and art museums. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  19. ^ Section for Natural Science Museums. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Section for Technical History Museums. In: Museumsbund.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .