Inatura
 The Inatura area viewed from the south |
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| place | Dornbirn |
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naturehistorical Museum
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| opening | 2003 |
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The inatura (officially inatura - Erlebnis Naturschau Dornbirn) is a natural history museum in the Austrian city of Dornbirn . It emerged in 2003 from the former Vorarlberg Nature Show and was set up on a former factory site in the new Dornbirn city garden.
It is one of the three state museums in Vorarlberg and is considered the largest and most modern nature museum in the Lake Constance area. The museum includes a documentation center on Vorarlberg's nature and a so-called interactive exhibition.
history
The museum goes back to Siegfried Fussenegger , who set up a private natural history museum ("Show of Vorarlberg's Natural History") in the old Fronfeste in Dornbirn and later in the former cattle market since 1934, which was taken over by the city of Dornbirn and the state of Vorarlberg in 1957 . Fussenegger became head of the collection now called "Vorarlberger Naturschau", the new building of which was opened in 1960.
The city of Dornbirn started planning and designing a new nature museum in 1997. The centrally located former foundry , machine and water turbine factory - the Rüsch-Werke - was selected as the location ; it was founded in 1827 by Josef Ignaz Rüsch and operated until 1984.
The renovation and expansion of the museum began in 2001 and the Inatura was inaugurated in June 2003. The exhibition area is around 3,000 m². An approximately 25,000 m² park, the Stadtgarten , was built around the museum (see also: Stadtgarten small hydropower plant with Zuppinger water wheel ).
Concept and focus
The exhibition concept is based on the typical mountain, forest and water habitats of Vorarlberg. The permanent exhibition "The Human Miracle" explains the processes in our body. Special features of the inatura are interactive zones to explain technical and physical phenomena.
A museum shop, a restaurant with an outdoor dining area, a science library as a lending library and a museum education department are connected to the museum.
further activities
Inatura is the documentation center for nature in Vorarlberg. It centrally collects scientific data and evidence with a national reference. All this information can be used to determine the distribution and endangerment of an animal or plant species.
Inatura is also responsible for the organization and implementation of exhibitions and other events on natural history topics throughout Vorarlberg.
The museum is also the publisher of various publications on nature and the environment in Vorarlberg, such as the series “Vorarlberger Naturschau, research and discover” on current research results with a regional reference or the “Red Lists” drawn up on behalf of the Vorarlberg state government.
Awards
Inatura received the Austrian Museum Prize in 2005. 2006 inatura was in Lisbon for the 29th "Museum of the Year Award", the "special recommendation" (Special Prize) awarded the second highest award from the European Museum Prize .
organization
Inatura is owned by the state of Vorarlberg and the city of Dornbirn. The company is run by inatura Erlebnis Naturschau GmbH in Dornbirn. Ruth Swoboda has been the scientific director of inatura since April 1, 2011 .
Visitor numbers
The Inatura has been by far the most visited museum in Vorarlberg for several years.
- 2007: 81,151
- 2009: 86,128
- 2010: 114,769
- 2013: 104,818
- 2016: 107,000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ vorum - Forum for Community Development in Vorarlberg ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ): Report in issue 3/2003, p. 2: "inatura - a new 'museum' for Vorarlberg" (PDF file)
- ↑ Rüsch-Werke Dornbirn - Vorarlberg's most important metal company in the industrial age, editors: Klaus Fessler and Werner Matt, Dornbirn (2017)
- ↑ Josef Ignaz Rüsch, Dornbirn Lexikon (accessed on October 29, 2010) ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2016 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.
- ^ Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (accessed on October 29, 2010)
- ↑ From the machine factory to the nature museum (accessed on October 29, 2010) ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2010 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.
- ↑ Inatura. In: arch INFORM .
- ↑ Online presence of the city of Dornbirn ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. : "Inatura - Natural History Event Series"
- ↑ Online presence of the city of Dornbirn ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. : "Inatura - advice and information on natural issues"
- ^ ICOM Austria ( Memento of August 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ): List of the winners of the Austrian Museum Prize
- ↑ inatura.at ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 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. : In Olympus of the European museum scene
- ^ ORF Vorarlberg: Ruth Swoboda new director of inatura . Article dated March 1, 2011.
- ↑ inatura also a crowd puller in 2007 , Inatura press release of January 22, 2008
- ^ ORF Vorarlberg: Inatura with a significant increase in visitors . Article of January 8, 2010.
- ↑ inatura - positive development 2010 , Inatura press release from January 18, 2011
- ↑ Number of visitors to sights in Austria in 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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.
- ↑ 2016 was a very successful year for inatura. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 32.6 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 19.6" E