Local history museum Ebern
 Gray tower at the Heimatmuseum with the "Heimatmuseum" entrance |
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Ebern 
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| Art |
Technikmuseum Heimatmuseum Naturkundemuseum
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| opening | 1974 |
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Citizens' Association Ebern eV
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-181515 |
The Ebern local history museum at the so-called Grauturm is a local history museum in Ebern .
The museum goes back to a local history collection founded in 1965 by the Ebern Citizens' Association. The museum is housed in a former savings bank building provided by the city of Ebern next to the “gray tower”. After several expansions, it shows around 3500 exhibits in 18 rooms, including historical holdings from the city and the former district of Ebern . In addition to archaeological finds and a small natural history collection, these are primarily tools from the fields of handicrafts, agriculture and forestry as well as household items and farm furniture.
With effect from October 1, 1971, due to the negotiations led by Mayor Franz Hübl, the three ground floor rooms in the old savings bank next to the Grauturm, where the AOK office was last housed, were rented by the city of Ebern and given to the citizens' association for the “City Museum "- the name" Heimatmuseum "was not given until later - made available with the request that the rented rooms be used as soon as they were intended.
In the summer of 1977 the first three rooms on the first floor could be included in the museum; In addition, the decision was made to expand the attic, which had been considered unusable until then - a barely accessible lumber room, into which the sky peeped through the cracks in the roof tiles. The result is the room for the agricultural equipment, perhaps the most beautiful and stylish part of the museum. Two years later, the two apartments still in the house on the 1st and 2nd floors were vacated and left by the city to the association for further expansion of the museum.
By including new rooms in the museum area, a complete redesign of the house was necessary. Thanks to Simon Hafenecker, museum director at the time, the “Eberner Schatzkästlein” - as it was also called - was opened for the third time on the last Sunday in July 1981. The citizens' association celebrated “40 years of the Heimatmuseum” with a Kommers on Sunday, January 12, 2014 - exactly 40 years to the day after the opening ceremony - in the Frauengrundhalle in the “Alte Kaserne” in Ebern.
The homepage is modern and attractive, there are now children's museum guides to give the youngest age-appropriate access to the exhibits, special exhibitions are well received across the region and the holdings are currently being scientifically inventoried with the help of a contemporary program called “Vino”. The Heimatmuseum has arrived in the 21st century and has not lost any of the charm that distinguished the house when it opened at the beginning of 1974. "It is a museum with a heart, in which the visitor feels comfortable, in which he can touch things, where adults and children can sit down in the school desk and rejoice loudly and where you are constantly discovering new things," enthuses today's museum director Ingo Hafenecker .
It is a stroke of luck that the citizens' association still runs this gem among the museums in the region. It is precisely the voluntary commitment of the members, the solidarity with boars and their historical treasures and the love for the object that have shaped this facility over the decades and probably also protected it from all too equalizing trends.
Individual evidence
- ^ Description of the museum in the catalog of the State Office for Non-State Museums in Bavaria, accessed on November 5, 2015.