Fugger and Welser Adventure Museum

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The arcade side of the Fugger and Welser adventure museum from the north
The “Living Book” in the entrance foyer
Model of the Nao Lionarda
Life-size, interactive film projection with Jakob Fugger ( Heinz Schulan ) and Bartholomäus V. Welser (Florian Keis)

The Fugger and Welser Adventure Museum is a museum in the cathedral district in Augsburg that deals with the history of the two Augsburg merchant families, Fugger and Welser . The museum opened in 2014.

location

The museum is located in Äußere Pfaffengässchen on the northeastern edge of the cathedral district of Augsburg. In the immediate vicinity is the approximately one hectare large monastery garden of the Benedictine Abbey of Sankt Stephan . The museum can be reached by public transport on tram line 2 or bus line 35 of the Augsburg public transport company .

history

The now listed Wieselhaus in Äußere Pfaffengässchen 23 in the cathedral district was built around 1530 in the style of the Italian Renaissance . The building was named after the telescope maker Johann Wiesel (1583–1662), who lived here from 1637 to 1642. Over the centuries, the Wieselhaus has been rebuilt several times, including the originally open arcades , which were unsuitable for the climatic conditions, closed and intermediate floors and additional walls inserted in the building. In contrast to a large part of the development in the area, the Wieselhaus survived the air raids on Augsburg during the Second World War unscathed.

In the last decades the residential building got into an increasingly poor structural condition, before it was renovated from 2009 by the "Stiftung Katholischer Studienfonds", which now owns the Wieselhaus. The original conditions from the Renaissance period were restored and adapted to modern conditions, for example the arcades were glazed. The total cost of the refurbishment was around 2.5 million euros. At the end of 2013, Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH moved into the building and set up the Fugger and Welser Adventure Museum there.

exhibition

The exhibition largely dispenses with original pieces from the time of the Fuggers and Welsers and instead uses films, sound pieces, projections and interactive content to bring the history of the two Augsburg merchant families to life - hence the name " Adventure Museum ". The museum also wants to place a special focus on reflecting on current economic events and accordingly regularly incorporate current business events into the exhibition concept.

See also

  • Fuggerei , devoted to the donated by the family Fugger Fuggerei deals
  • Mercateum , which deals with historical merchant shipping to India, in which the Fuggers and Welsers played a central role

Web links

Commons : Fugger and Welser Erlebnismuseum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tomorrow the interactive museum about Fugger and Welser articles opens in the Augsburger Allgemeine on September 26, 2014. Accessed on September 27, 2014
  2. ↑ Fugger and Welser Erlebnismuseum: Visitor information - Accessed on September 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Fugger and Welser Erlebnismuseum: Das Wieselhaus - Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Augsburger Allgemeine : “New insights and outlooks in the Wieselhaus”, article from September 28, 2013, Augsburger Land edition, p. 45.
  5. ↑ Fugger and Welser Erlebnismuseum: Mission Statement - Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  6. ↑ Fugger and Welser Adventure Museum: ... and today? - Retrieved September 18, 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 26.8 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 1.2 ″  E