Harz Museum Wernigerode

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Harz Museum and City Library in Wernigerode

The Harz Museum Wernigerode is the municipal museum in Wernigerode in the Harz region .

exhibition

The Harz Museum not far from the Wernigerode town hall offers a compact introduction to the Harz both in terms of natural history and art history. In the second part of the approx. 400 square meter permanent exhibition, the history of the city of Wernigerode from the Middle Ages to the 20th century is conveyed. The town hall, the half-timbered architecture of the city, the handicrafts, industrialization and tourism are also a theme in the exhibition. The original objects and works of art shown usually come from the region and illustrate the various themes.

In the natural sciences , the history of the earth in the Harz is presented chronologically using fossils , minerals and rocks. The historical mining in this region is also discussed. Various movable models are used for this purpose, with which individual aspects of historical mining are illustrated. This is followed by the animal and plant world of the Harz, their forest habitat and the raw material wood obtained from it for half-timbered construction . The historical telephones loosely distributed in the permanent exhibition can be used as audio guides.

In a further room within the tour, an excerpt from the extensive art collection of the house is shown. The focus is on the so-called resin painters, artists who have either spent a large part of their life in Wernigerode or the region or who have stayed in the Harz region several times and painted or drawn there.

The focus is on artists of the 20th century, for example Otto Illies, Wilhelm Pramme, Bert Heller, Bruno Jüttner or Erich Krüger, but also Carl Klapper and Maria Schmidt-Franken. But valuable individual works by Ernst Helbig, Georg Heinrich Crola or Christian Wilberg can also be seen from the 19th century, which is mainly collected in the castle museum in Wernigerode.

The Harz Museum's collection contains a total of more than 460 paintings, as well as several hundred graphic sheets, drawings and watercolors. The total inventory includes more than 1,500 works of art, as well as several thousand other museum objects. In the neighboring house is the viewing depot with paintings and graphics on around 100 square meters. This part of the collection is only accessible on request.

Several special exhibitions are shown in the house each year, according to the profile of the museum, both natural and local history, but also art exhibitions or exhibitions on other cultural-historical topics. Time and again, the house also involves citizens in exhibition projects, for example in 2017/2018 when the Wernigeröder were called upon to hand in historical Christmas presents for a Christmas exhibition. Under the title “Gift! Christmas presents from old and new times ", more than 100 loans from around 30 lenders were presented by the beginning of 2018.

Special exhibitions are planned for 2020 on climate change, on a 19th century painter from Wernigerode, on state security in the GDR and on historical brass objects.

history

The Fürst Otto Museum was founded as the first museum in Wernigerode in 1897 . Parts of its holdings, including those relating to mining in the Harz, were transferred to the collection of the later Harz Museum.

The Harz Museum Wernigerode has been located on the upper floor of the half-timbered house Klint 10 since 1955 , which was built in 1821 and previously served as a residential building and from 1918 as the headquarters of the authorities. It is located near the town hall of Wernigerode. The basement houses the Harz library, which stocks literature with regional reference. After the opening of the Harz Museum, the former club library was initially assigned to the museum, but in 1992 it was attached to the Wernigerode City Library as a special department.

The historian Silvia Lisowski headed the Harz Museum Wernigerode from 1996 until she became head of the cultural office in 2011. The Harz Museum, as well as the city library and the city archive, have been managed by Olaf Ahrens since 2016.

The current permanent exhibition opened after renovation work on May 15, 2001. In 2006, a display depot with works of art was set up in another building, which can be viewed on request.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ permanent exhibition
  2. ↑ Collection: "Mining in the Harz
  3. ^ History of the Harz Library
  4. ↑ Head of the Harz Museum moves to the New Town Hall. In: Volksstimme of September 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ Volksstimme: Olaf Ahrens - One man, three jobs (October 6, 2017) , accessed on July 23, 2017
  6. ↑ Viewing depot in the Harz Museum Wernigerode

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 58 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 0.1 ″  E