German Pig Museum
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| place | Ruhlsdorf (Teltow) |
| opening | 1993 |
| management |
Thomas Paulke
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-917819 |
The German Pig Museum is a German agricultural museum in Ruhlsdorf , a district of Teltow in Brandenburg . It is the only museum in Germany that deals with the pig as a farm animal .
In contrast, the Pig Museum in Stuttgart deals with the art and cultural history of the pig.
history
In 1918 the "Experimental Farm for Pig Keeping, Feeding and Breeding" was founded in Ruhlsdorf. Karl Müller was its first director. Today's teaching and research institute for animal breeding and keeping in Ruhlsdorf / Groß Kreuz celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1993. To prepare for this anniversary, the "Interest Group Pig Museum" was founded in 1991. The impetus for the museum came from a visit to the Hungarian Agricultural Museum in Budapest . The first exhibition was shown from October 6, 1993 in the former Ruhlsdorf prototype workshop. The museum was officially opened with a permanent exhibition on December 3, 1995. On April 15, 1997, the Friends of the German Pig Museum Ruhlsdorf was brought into being and entered into the register of associations on April 20, 1998. Co-founder was the agricultural scientist Gunther Nitzsche , long-time director of the museum and chairman of the friends' association. The association is responsible for the museum. Its members include the Central Association of German Pig Production, Bonn, the Central German Pig Breeding Association and, formerly, the Pig Breeding and Production Association Berlin-Brandenburg. The museum has been part of the State Office for Environment, Health and Consumer Protection since 1998 . The museum has had a website since early 2001. In 2010 the museum had 3900 exhibits. Among other things, biographies of pig breeders and documents on pig breeding, photos of pedigree pigs, events and people involved in pig breeding are collected. The Society for Agricultural History classified the museum as German Agricultural Heritage in 2010 . Thomas Paulke has been chairman of the association's board of directors and museum director since 2011.
Exhibitions
Permanent exhibition
The museum has six exhibition rooms. The permanent exhibition shows, among other things, the development from wild boar to domestic pig, the history of pig breeding , the development of reproductive technology, performance testing, the utilization of pigs and the self-organization of the breeders. In addition, the work of important pig breeders is documented. The cultural history is also discussed. The exhibits include cards, coins, ceramic figurines and postage stamps, as well as pig leather goods , brushes and paintbrushes made from pig bristles , gelatine products , horn manure and animal feed. Information is provided about the attempts to save the Bentheimer country pig , which is threatened with extinction , as well as about extinct breeds such as the half-red Bavarian country pig and the Baldinger tiger pig. The oldest piggy bank in Europe is reproduced from clay, which dates from the 13th century and was found in Thuringia. The Ruhlsdorf mother sow "Bettina" is shown in bronze. She gave birth to 175 live piglets and died at the age of 14 in 1929. In the outdoor area there are, among other things, replica pig pens and pig houses from the 1950s. The museum library is equipped with specialist literature on pig breeding, building stalls, feeding and nutrition, and animal health.
Special exhibitions
The museum showed ten special exhibitions on various topics. In 1998 they included the exhibition on the Leicoma breed bred in the GDR , and in the following year an exhibition dealt with supporters of pig farming such as Ferdinand von Lochow and Karl Müller, the first director of the Ruhlsdorf experimental farm . The exhibition "The desire to be a pig - the pig in phrase, headline, advertising and comic" by Dagmar Schmauks , Professor of Semiotics at the Technical University of Berlin, was shown in 2004. In 2005, “Don't be afraid of the big painting pig” was the theme of a special exhibition. In 2006 the anniversary “Station test for pigs in Germany” was commemorated. “Pig and Schmer and much more - products from pork” was the first topic in 2008, and in 2009 “Our photogenic pig”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ruhlsdorf, German Pig Museum on the side of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district
- ↑ Chronicle Ruhlsdorf 1900 to 1965
- ↑ a b c The "German Pig Museum Ruhlsdorf" ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 118 kB) In: SachsenPost Schwein , issue 21/2002, pp. 33–35 on the website of the Central German Pig Breeding Association
- ↑ News from the German Pig Museum in Ruhlsdorf ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 79 kB) In: Schweinzucht aktuell , 26/2005, p. 31
- ↑ a b c d e German Pig Museum Ruhlsdorf on the Agricultural Heritage Initiative page
- ↑ German Pig Museum Ruhlsdorf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Brandenburg cultural portal
- ↑ Arno Widmann : Only love counts In: Berliner Zeitung online from May 13, 2011
- ↑ Kai Michel: A big mess . In: Die Zeit 44/2004 of October 21, 2004
- ↑ Markus Springer: Had a pig ( memento of the original from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Sonntagsblatt 1/2005 of January 2, 2005
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '26.2 " N , 13 ° 15' 55.4" E