House of Nature Salzburg
 Museum square after the renovation in 2009, on the right the CA wing, in between and in front the modern entrance |
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| place | Salzburg-Left Old Town |
| opening | 1924 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 500,000 (2010) |
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Association House of Nature - Museum for Nature and Technology
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The House of Nature is a natural history and technical museum in Salzburg , Austria .
It is located in the Left Old Town , the house is a listed building and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Historic Center of the City of Salzburg .
History and architecture
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The House of Nature was founded in 1924 by the zoologist Eduard Paul Tratz (1888–1977) on a private initiative as a “Museum for Performing and Applied Natural History”. Tratz managed the house from its founding 1924 to 1945 and from 1949 to 1976. After that, Eberhard Stüber was director of the house for 33 years. On July 1, 2009, Norbert Winding took over the management. The museum is still run by the Haus der Natur association - Museum for Nature and Technology .
After the First World War , the House of Nature was located in the court stables , where the Great Festival Hall is housed today. In 1959 it moved to the Ursuline monastery - moved to Glasenbach in 1957 - which had been built by Fischer von Erlach 1713-26. The dinosaur hall was built in the inner courtyard, the old segment arch portal to Gstättengasse is a side entrance (employee entrance).
After the general renovation and the re-establishment of a science center in the former Carolino Augusteum Museum (municipal grain store, there from 1834, today Salzburg Museum in the New Residence). The house of the Museum CA, which spans the Museumplatz towards the Franz-Josefs-Kai, was connected to the Ursuline tract with an access building. An internal connection and a new fully glazed staircase with an integrated elevator was created. On the forecourt there is an entrance and “eye-catcher of the redesign, a foyer in almost baroque forms made of a free-form concrete sculpture with an accessible roof terrace.” The new building was designed by Salzburg architect Fritz Lorenz . The museum reopened on June 27, 2009.
In 1993, 294,257 visitors were counted. In 2010 there were over 500,000 visitors.
The time of National Socialism
During the Nazi era , the museum was integrated into the SS research organization “ Ahnenerbe ” and was also involved in cultural theft campaigns in Central and Eastern Europe under the direction of Tratz .
Collections and exhibits, affiliated research institutions
In more than 80 showrooms it offers the visitor exhibitions on the most varied areas of animate and inanimate nature . The museum is world famous for its many dioramas . Favorites with visitors belonging dinosaur hall with a mobile Allosaurus -extremely, an aquarium with more than forty show basins Space Hall , the public observatory and a glacial look .
The House of Nature is also the seat of several scientific working groups: entomology , herpetology , ornithology , mineralogy and paleontology , botany , astronomy . Connected to the House of Nature is the high-alpine research station in the Wilfried-Haslauer-Haus (in cooperation with the Hohe Tauern National Park ) on the Großglockner, the Salzburg public observatory on Voggenberg near Bergheim (near Salzburg city) and the new Vega observatory on the Haunsberg .
The biodiversity database at the House of Nature contains around 1,100,000 data records on the distribution of flowering plants , vertebrates , butterflies , beetles and other animal and plant groups in the state of Salzburg ( Austria ) and neighboring regions.
Web links
- Official website of the Haus der Natur Salzburg
- Biodiversity database at the Haus der Natur Salzburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ House of Nature , entry in nextroom.at.
- ↑ Quote Haus der Natur , Initiative Architektur Salzburg, archtour-stadt-salzburg.at → Fritz Lorenz
- ^ Robert Hoffmann: A museum for Himmler. Eduard Paul Tratz and the integration of the Salzburg “House of Nature” into the “Ahnenerbe” of the SS, in: ÖNB-ANNO-Zeitgeschichte , 35 years, May / June 2008, 154–175
- ↑ orf.at: New observatory on the Haunsberg completed ( memento of the original from August 6, 2018 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. . Article dated August 6, 2018, accessed August 6, 2018.
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 6 ″ N , 13 ° 2 ′ 21 ″ E