Canon House. Verden Historical Museum
The canon house. Historisches Museum Verden or simply Historisches Museum Verden is the most important museum in the Lower Saxony city of Verden (Aller) . It has a heterogeneous collection.
The museum has been located in a courtyard near the cathedral since 1937 , the canon house from 1708, Untere Straße 13. It exhibits cultural and folkloric artefacts from the history of Verden and the surrounding region on around 900 m² of exhibition space . The lance of Lehringen , a spear from the time of the Neanderthals that was discovered in 1948 and has been in the museum since 1955 , together with fewer remains of the prey of a European forest elephant, is of supraregional importance . In 1998 the reorganization of the prehistoric section, which took about three years to complete, was completed.
A model of the city's history was made showing the city around 1663. There are also objects from the living and everyday culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, workshops, the so-called “ tin figure cabinet” and a room with full furnishings from the early 20th century (Beckmann room), where civil weddings also take place. The baroque courtyard of the canon house can also be visited .
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Remarks
- ^ Karen Aydin: Archaeological museums between tradition and innovation , in: Kurt Dröge , Detlef Hoffmann (eds.): Museum revisited. Transdisciplinary perspectives on an institution in transition , transcript, Bielefeld 2010, pp. 63–72, here: p. 66.