LWL Prussian Museum Minden
 Defense barracks |
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| place | Minden |
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Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe
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| management |
Sylvia Necker
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-965615 |
The LWL-Preußenmuseum Minden is a museum in the East Westphalian city of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia . It has been part of the association of LWL museums since 2016 .
The former defense barracks of the Minden fortress on Simeonsplatz in a military suburb of the East Westphalian city of Minden that was built after 1815 and has numerous buildings that still exist today serves as the museum building. The square is surrounded by today's Mindener Glacis .
The Prussian Museum Minden has been closed since January 1st, 2014.
History and collections
The classicist building from 1829 has been renovated and rebuilt since 1995, so that the museum was opened in 1999 as the Westphalian location of the Prussian Museum North Rhine-Westphalia . There was a second location in Wesel on the Lower Rhine , the Prussian Museum Wesel . On more than 1,500 m², the focus was on the history of Prussia in Westphalia with the garrison town of Minden in its function as a hinge element between the western regions and the ancestral lands of Prussia.
Paintings, porcelain, textile objects, uniforms, medals and objects from different topics and everyday areas were shown. In addition to the permanent exhibition, there were several historical and political changing exhibitions or those on art and cultural history.
The museum was financed together with the second location in Wesel by the Preußen-Museum NRW Foundation. The following are involved in the foundation: the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the regional associations Westphalia-Lippe and Rhineland , the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the cities of Wesel and Minden and their districts of Wesel and Minden-Lübbecke . The non-profit association of the museum, the "Society for the Promotion of the Prussian Museum NRW in Minden eV" is open to all citizens for membership. He particularly supports the special exhibitions and building up the collection.
Due to the foundation's financial bottlenecks due to lower interest income from the foundation's assets, a lack of funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and repayment claims from one of the state associations and the districts, advice has been given since 2010 on changing the direction of the museum and opening up other financing options.
On January 1, 2016, the Prussian Museum Minden was taken over by the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe .
Concerts and events continue to take place on the 2nd floor of the museum.
The reopening initially announced for 2017 was only postponed to 2018, then to 2019.
The historian Sylvia Necker has been heading the LWL-Prussia Museum in Minden since August 1, 2019.
The museum is to reopen from spring 2020 with the program "Place there, the museum is coming".
New concept
With the takeover by the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, the museum gets a new concept. The permanent exhibition on the upper floor has been dismantled since 2016 and a new permanent exhibition is being set up in the basement in the right wing of the building. It has less space available (400 square meters instead of around 1000 square meters) and is to be included in the conceptual work on the reopening. The Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe is providing 900,000 euros for the “realignment” in the Minden defensions barracks.
The museum is the coordination point of the network "Prussia in Westphalia" founded in 2017. This partnership initiative now includes over 55 museums, local associations, archives and tourism partners. The network makes the traces of the more than 200-year-old Prussian coinage of Westphalia tangible. This past can be read through many visible, but also hidden paths.
Web links
- Website of the LWL-Prussian Museum Minden
- Minden as a garrison town ( Memento from February 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ derwesten.de: What will happen to the Prussian Museum in Wesel? , accessed on August 11, 2013.
- ↑ mt-online.de: A good ship for a strong fleet , Mindener Tageblatt, March 19, 2011, accessed on August 11, 2013.
- ↑ mt-online.de: Prussia will only be a minor matter in future? , Mindener Tageblatt, March 2, 2011, accessed on August 11, 2013.
- ↑ a b What is the upper floor filled with? In: Mindener Tageblatt of March 27, 2015.
- ↑ a b Opening times ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2017 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. , accessed on May 15, 2017.
- ↑ The Prussian Museum in Minden is scheduled to reopen in 2019. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 29, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Ursula Koch: Sylvia Necker heads the Prussian Museum. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Ursula Koch: MT interview with Dr. Sylvia Necker: The Prussian Museum will reopen in spring. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Home - Network Prussia in Westphalia. Retrieved November 27, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 1 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 31 ″ E