International Museum of Respiratory Protection

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The International Museum of Respiratory Protection is a special museum. In its holdings, it has a collection of 10,000 respirators from the period from 1870 to the present day. It is located in Meetzen , a district of the municipality Holdorf (Northwest Mecklenburg district) between Lübeck and Schwerin.

history

The museum was founded in 2017 by the fire department historian Uwe Rosenfeld in a hall of the state fire department museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Uwe Rosenfeld is also on the board of the State Fire Brigade Museum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and director of the International Fire Brigade Museum Schwerin , so that there is close cooperation between these museums.

exhibition

The cornerstone of the collection is the former private collection of the German engineer German Vogliano from Berlin, who died in March 2016. The exhibits were given to the Meetzen museum team by his family.

Uwe Rosenfeld suspects that it is the world's largest collection of respiratory masks. To confirm this, he wants to have the collection entered in the Guinness Book of Records.

In the first stage of expansion, the museum has an exhibition area of ​​approx. 270 m². Around 2000 exhibits, gas masks, breathing apparatus, child and animal gas protection, measuring and testing devices as well as a literature collection are shown here. In 2018, an exhibition area of ​​approx. 500 m² is to be achieved in a second expansion stage. The Int. The Museum of Respiratory Protection uses specific exhibits from the companies Auergesellschaft, Berlin and Dräger, Lübeck to show a historical course in the development of breathing apparatus for these two companies.

The museum has fixed opening times. It is run by fire brigade members on a voluntary basis as an association. The Int. The Museum of Respiratory Protection is unique in Europe. It is independent and is scientifically supervised by the military historian Hubert Pinick. In Germany he is the authorized specialist for international respiratory protection.

On August 15, 2017, the extensive archive of the Int. Museum of respiratory protection made available to the public after about 30% of the archived documents were viewed, sorted and filed in a first step. It covers over 30 linear meters of shelf space and documents the development of respiratory protection to this day. In terms of content, documents, newspapers / magazines, pictures and slides, specialist books, techn. Information and brochures from all over the world are archived. They are available to historians for research purposes.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 54.6 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 24 ″  E