Bamberg Historical Museum
The Bamberg Historical Museum is located in the Renaissance buildings of the old court in the immediate vicinity of the Imperial Cathedral . Along with the Ludwig Collection and the Bamberg Villa Dessauer City Gallery, it is one of the museums of the city of Bamberg .
history
Domvikar Joseph Hemmerlein laid the foundation of the municipal art collections, and in 1838 he bequeathed his rich painting treasures to the city. Increased by further foundations, bequests, purchases and loans, the museum was located in the rooms of the former Benedictine monastery Michaelsberg until 1935 . Since 1938 the museum - which was called the Franconian Museum of Local History from 1938 to 1957 - has had an excellent place in the Renaissance buildings of the old court and also houses most of the art holdings of the historical association . The museum has been continuously expanded since 1987, because the current exhibition options have long been insufficient to adequately document the more than 1,000-year history and art history of the city and its historical surroundings and to enable permanent exhibitions.
Museum holdings
The Bamberg Historical Museum has a wealth of exhibits from prehistoric times to the 20th century. The collection includes prominent sculptures such as the “ Bamberg Idols ” as well as a number of important works of art and paintings from the Middle Ages to the present. Objects of the handicraft and the traditional Bamberg guilds, splendid clocks from the 16th to the 19th century or also coin collections from all art and cultural-historical epochs are also part of the inventory.
The collection of scientific instruments, which expresses the rich tradition of university and spiritual research in Bamberg, is of international standing. Most of the astronomical and mathematical instruments from the 16th to 18th centuries came from various monasteries and colleges, such as the Jesuit College in Bamberg, from Banz, Ebrach, Langheim and the University of the Prince-Bishops. The collection of Christmas pictures and nativity scenes, which every year at Christmas time attracts visitors from all over Germany to Bamberg, is also significant.
Permanent and special exhibitions
Permanent exhibitions
- Jewish in Bamberg
The highly acclaimed and successful exhibition in the Villa Dessauer 2013/14 has moved into the Bamberg Historical Museum as a new permanent exhibition. This is not only very significant because such an important part of Bamberg's city history can be brought to a broad audience in the long term. Rather, the exhibition is conceived from the start as a sustainable presentation, with the aim of kaleidoscopically adding another important aspect to the existing parts of Bamberg's city history, the one in the Bamberg Historical Museum with the permanent exhibitions on citizen culture and the “Regnitz lifeline”.
- In the flow of history. Bamberg's lifeline, Regnitz
With a large special exhibition at the Historisches Museum Bamberg, taking the UNESCO World Heritage City of Bamberg as an example, the diverse cultural, economic, historical and ecological connections between the city and the river will be uncovered and made visible, tangible and understandable for visitors and citizens in their diversity, beauty and importance .
- From the romantic to the early days. Civil culture in the 19th century in Bamberg
The permanent collection shows paintings, graphics and handicrafts from the period from Romanticism to the Wilhelminian era. On an area of approx. 350 m², civic engagement and the associated awakening after the period of secularization are discussed. Portraits show important personalities from the Bamberg bourgeoisie. The objects collected on the work of the Schmidt Porcelain Painting Institute in Bamberg are of supraregional importance. There are valuable service and unique pieces based on masterful painting from the Renaissance to the 19th century. Furniture, musical instruments, vessels, devices, textiles and jewelry from the Biedermeier era complete the picture.
- 100 masterpieces. From Lucas Cranach to Pieter Breughel to Otto Modersohn
Masterpieces from seven centuries were selected from the city's collection of around 3,000 paintings and give an insight into the diversity of the Bamberg collection. Works from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century are shown in the former Imperial court in a picturesque half-timbered wing from the Renaissance period. It begins with an introduction to the history of collections in the city of Bamberg. In the following rooms the paintings are arranged in extensive chronology and according to central themes of art history.
- "Kumpf & Co."
The presentation of the archaeological objects is set up in a section “Kumpf & Co.” specially designed for children and young people in the historic walls of the old court. Exciting objects can be seen that bring bygone times back to life. The earliest settlement of Upper Franconia and the Bamberg region in the Neolithic Age is presented as vividly as the Middle Ages in Bamberg, the age of Emperor Heinrich II and his wife Kunigunde.
Special exhibition
Changing special exhibitions show contemporary art (painting, photography, sculpture). During the Christmas season, the museum hosts changing nativity scenes in a real stable, the historic stables of the Bamberg prince-bishops.
Web links
- Bamberg Historical Museum . In: museum.bamberg.de
- Bamberg Historical Museum . In: bamberg.info
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 27.4 " N , 10 ° 52 ′ 56.7" E