Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg

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Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg
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Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg
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place Magdeburg coordinates: 52 ° 7 '32 "  N , 11 ° 37' 46.1"  EWorld icon
opening 1906
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ISIL DE-MUS-808017

The Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg (KHM) is a museum in Magdeburg that was founded in 1906 and held Council of Europe exhibitions in 2001 and 2006 .

history

After various previous institutions, the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum was founded in 1906 as the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum. The first director of the museum was the art historian Theodor Volbehr . After numerous private gifts and purchases from Europe, the National Socialists tried to remove unpleasant objects from 1933 onwards before further inventory losses and destruction occurred in 1945. Due to new discoveries there were again many newcomers.

The museum building, which was badly damaged in the Second World War , has since been largely rebuilt and extensively restored. The highlights include the Council of Europe exhibitions Otto the Great - Magdeburg and Europe and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation as well as the exhibition Magdeburg 1200 - Medieval Metropolis, Prussian Fortress, State Capital .

building

Museum building in its original state

The museum building is located at Otto-von-Guericke-Straße 68-73, just a few meters from Magdeburg Cathedral . It was built from 1901 to 1906 as the municipal museum for arts and crafts under the name "Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum". The executed design was indirectly derived from an architectural competition held in 1897 and came from the Viennese architects Friedrich Ohmann and August Kirstein .

Kaiser Otto Hall

The original statue of the Magdeburg rider , the three-part wall painting Scenes from the Life of Otto the Great by Arthur Kampf from 1905/06 and the Ottonian crypt discovered in 2005 are on display in the Kaiser Otto Hall .

business

The cultural history museum employs 27 people. It is managed by Gabriele Köster . The museum operates a museum and an online shop. A special feature of the offer is the Magdeburg rider from Playmobil , with which the toy manufacturer recreated a work of art for the first time and thus also advertises a city. Megedeborch is a museum educational drama in which historical events from Magdeburg are presented.

Collections

Magdeburg rider - the original
  • Archeology : 400,000 finds from the Magdeburg region and northern Saxony-Anhalt as well as France , the Rhine-Moselle region , from Hungary , Moravia and Italy from 200,000 years of human history, etc. a. Hundisburg hand ax (age: 200,000 years)
  • Middle Ages : Objects from the Magdeburg region, a. a. Pilgrim signs with the three wise men, Magdeburg judges' sayings, lion aquamanile.
  • City history : 10,000 objects from Magdeburg that do not fit into one of the other exhibitions, etc. a. Rag doll, certificate of parentage, Jewish star (Star of David), cup ( German theater exhibition 1927 ).
  • Coins , medals : 11,000 coins, 2,400 medals, etc. a. Otto von Guericke plaque, Eineinviertel Schautaler (1692), bronze medal at the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893, Moritzpfennig (2nd half of the 12th century), gold mark on the founding of the city of Magdeburg (1599).
  • Militaria : 1,400 objects, including halberd (2nd half of the 16th century), hand grenade (17th century), heavy wall rifle (around 1600), fortress cannon (mid-17th century), balaclava (end of 16th century).
  • Furniture : 800 objects
  • Paintings : 1,100 objects, a. a. The Kyffhäuser , Das Welken , Magdeburg Cathedral with rubble .
  • Graphics : 4,500 hand drawings, 30,000 prints, 10,000 bookplates
  • Handicrafts : 5,000 objects
  • Textiles : 1,250 objects
  • School history : for the most part objects from GDR schools, etc. a. Giant kaleidoscope (around 1900), synthetic fuels showcase , scroll painting (1930s)
  • Library : 58,000 objects for scientific work as well as temporary exhibitions. Otherwise only visible with a special permit; u. a. The city of Magdeburg judicial order (1625), pamphlet against the reintroduction of the Holy Mass by the interim and against the Protestant theologian Agricola (1549), the second defense of the Magdeburg council because of the deposition and expulsion of Tilemann Heßhusen (1563)

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibitions

  • Magdeburg - the history of a city.
  • Art seduction - The historical art collections.
  • The Magdeburg rider.
  • Permanent exhibition of school history.
  • Faience and earthenware manufacture Guischard.
  • Baroque nativity scene.

Special exhibitions (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Karin Grünwald, Karlheinz Kärgling, Steffen Lemme, Carola Lipaczewski, Wolfgang Winkelmann (ed.): Unwanted. Tracked. Murdered. Exclusion and terror during the National Socialist dictatorship in Magdeburg 1933–1945. Series Magdeburger Museumsschriften , No. 11. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg from January 28 to August 3, 2008. Magdeburg Museums, Magdeburg 2008, ISBN 3-930030-93-4 .

literature

  • Logika GmbH: Magdeburg Cultural History Museum. (= Edition Logika. Volume 14). Logika GmbH, Munich 2011, DNB 1067505032 .
  • Friedrich Ohmann, August Kirstein: Museum of Arts and Crafts in Magdeburg. In: Der Architekt , 7th year 1901, pp. 37–39 ( digitized version ).
  • Matthias Puhle (Ed.): 100 Years of the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum 1906–2006. (= Magdeburg Museum Writings. No. 9). Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, Magdeburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-930030-85-9 .
  • Matthias Puhle (Hrsg.): The Kaiser-Otto-Saal - "... a room to raise interest in the history of the city" in the Museum of Cultural History. (= Magdeburg museums. Volume 15). Magdeburg Museums, Magdeburg 2001, DNB 963124749 .
  • Otto Peters: The Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Magdeburg. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . 41st year, No. 53 (from July 3, 1907), pp. 369–373 / No. 57 (from July 17, 1907), pp. 397–402 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magdeburg - The history of a city. In: KHM-Magdeburg.de. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ Art seduction - The historical art collections. In: KHM-Magdeburg.de. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The Magdeburg Horseman. In: KHM-Magdeburg.de. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Permanent exhibition of school history. In: KHM-Magdeburg.de. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Guischard faience and earthenware manufacture. In: KHM-Magdeburg.de. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Baroque nativity scene. In: KHM-Magdeburg.de. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Karin Grünwald, Karlheinz Kärgling, Steffen Lemme, Carola Lipaczewski, Wolfgang Winkelmann (ed.): Unwanted. Tracked. Murdered ... Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name. Magdeburg 2008, ISBN 3-930030-93-4 .