Historical Museum Thurgau
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The Historical Museum Thurgau is the history museum of the Swiss canton of Thurgau . It looks after a collection of over 40,000 objects, organizes exhibitions on a regular basis, carries out research and communicates the history of the canton to a wide audience. With the Frauenfeld Castle , the St. Katharinental Kornhaus and the Frauenfeld Old Armory, it comprises three locations.
history
When the canton of Thurgau abolished the monasteries in 1848, it took some of their important works of art to keep for a future historical museum. In 1859 the Historical Association of the Canton of Thurgau was founded, which collected other antiquities from the Middle Ages and modern times as well as prehistoric finds. With the founding of the Thurgauische Museums-Gesellschaft in 1917, the foundation stone for the later museum was laid. In 1924 the society opened a museum at Freie Strasse 24 in Frauenfeld , which had a historical, scientific, prehistoric and ethnographic department. In 1958, the canton of Thurgau took over the holdings, with the exception of a few important objects, and in 1960 opened the Thurgau Historical Museum in Frauenfeld Castle.
From the 1960s to 2015, the house resembled a classic castle museum with historic rooms and a handful of gems. In 2015 the exhibition was modernized and brought up to date. Since then, texts on steles, screens and touch screens have provided information about historical relationships. The three floors deal with society, religion and the wars in Thurgau in the late Middle Ages . The exhibits shown come mainly from the museum's own holdings. Since 2015, the exhibition has been accompanied by a diverse guided and educational program.
Locations
The exhibition at Schloss Frauenfeld deals with the transition period between the Council of Constance in 1414 and the Reformation in 1517, when the borders of today's canton emerged. The castle exhibition with the original title “Thurgau's apple of contention” is aimed at a broad cultural audience as well as families.
In the St. Katharinental Schaudepot , over 10,000 objects on everyday rural culture from the 18th to mid-20th centuries are on display. The viewing depot can only be visited upon registration. The collection is one of the most extensive folklore collections in Switzerland.
The Alte Zeughaus Frauenfeld is the temporary exhibition space for the modern exhibitions of the Thurgau Historical Museum. Since 2012, special exhibitions on special topics with a focus on Thurgau have been held here every two years.
collection
The museum looks after two collections, a cultural and historical one and a folklore one. The depots and exhibitions contain over 40,000 objects on the history of the Canton of Thurgau.
literature
- Christof Widmer: The museum has cleared out. In: Thurgauer Zeitung . September 4, 2015, p. 19.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christof Widmer: The museum has cleared out. In: Thurgauer Zeitung . September 4, 2015, p. 19.
- ↑ Thurgau's bone of contention in the 15th century. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . September 4, 2015, accessed May 22, 2018 .