State exhibitions in Rhineland-Palatinate

State exhibitions in Rhineland-Palatinate mainly deal with topics that are related to the state and are therefore either subsidized by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, as for example in the case of the exhibition on the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken in 2010 in Zweibrücken or in rarer cases also fully organized and financed, such as the large state exhibition about the Salier in Speyer in 1992.

Meaning of the term national exhibition

In Rhineland-Palatinate, unlike, for example, in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt or Saxony, there is no elaborated concept for a regularly recurring large cultural-historical exhibition in the responsibility of the state or with the state as the main donor and co-organizer. Nevertheless, national exhibitions of this kind have already taken place on special occasions. Large cultural-historical exhibitions with a seven-figure budget, which the state of Rhineland-Palatinate organized and financed on its own, have so far been the exhibition on the Salians held in Speyer in 1992, the exhibition on Constantine the Great in Trier in 2007 and the one that started in September 2017 State exhibition about Richard the Lionheart in Speyer, which ended in April 2018. Another exhibition in this sense with the explicit label Great State Exhibition took place on the 200th birthday of Karl Marx from May 5, 2018 to October 21, 2018 in Trier.

Smaller cultural-historical state exhibitions have taken place since 1984 as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate Day and were financed by the Ministry of Culture . Also under the name National Exhibition can museums of Rhineland-Palatinate will present their collections on selected topics for smaller budgets. Although the designation “state exhibition” is not protected in Rhineland-Palatinate, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate has given express approval in all cases of so-called “state exhibitions”.

Large exhibitions in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate

• The empire of the Salians . Exhibition of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, March 23 to June 21, 1992. This major state exhibition on the occasion of the 2000 year celebration of the city of Speyer was held in the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer by the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz in conjunction with the Episcopal Cathedral - and Diocesan Museum Mainz organized.
• Constantine the Great . Exhibition of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate from June 2nd to November 4th 2007 in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Trier. This exhibition of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate on the occasion of its 60th anniversary and 1700 years after the elevation of Constantine to Roman emperor was at the same time the official contribution of Rhineland-Palatinate to the European Capital of Culture 2007 (Luxembourg and the greater region of Saar-Lor-Lux) and stood under the patronage of Federal President Horst Köhler and the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. The diocese of Trier and the city of Trier were also involved in the exhibition.
• Richard the Lionheart. King - knight - prisoner. State exhibition in the Historisches Museum der Pfalz in Speyer from September 17, 2017 to April 15, 2018. The exhibition showed around 150 exhibits from museums and libraries in various European countries. These included valuable manuscripts that were exhibited in Germany for the first time. The exhibition was under the patronage of Malu Dreyer .
• Karl Marx. 1818-1883. Life. Plant. Time. Large state exhibition from May 5 to October 21, 2018 in Trier in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum and the Simeonstift city museum . At the same time there are partner exhibitions in the Karl-Marx-Haus and in the Museum am Dom .
• The emperors and the pillars of their power. Large state exhibition from September 9, 2020 to April 18, 2021 in the Landesmuseum Mainz of the GDKE ( General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate )

Examples of other smaller exhibitions called Landesausstellung

• Baldwin of Luxembourg, Archbishop of Trier . State exhibition from June 1 to September 1, 1985 in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, organized in 1985 by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum and the Koblenz State Archive on the occasion of the Rhineland-Palatinate Day . A 160-page catalog was published for the exhibition
• The Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and the French Revolution . State exhibition in the Karlskirche Zweibrücken, April 16 to May 28, 1989.
• 1300 years of monasteries in the Eifel . State exhibition 1994 in Wittlich, carried out by the State Museum Koblenz as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate Day.
• Art, commerce and religious struggle. Frankenthal around 1600 . Exhibition by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the city of Frankenthal from May 27 to August 6, 1995 in the Erkenbert Museum on the occasion of the 1995 Rhineland-Palatinate Day. A 301-page catalog was published for the exhibition.
• In great demand, Zweibrücken porcelain 1767–1775 . State exhibition from June 15 to December 29, 2002 on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the city of Zweibrücken.
• In love, engaged, married: Rhineland-Palatinate - the early years , 2007, decentralized state exhibition on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the state
• The cradle of kings. 600 years of the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . State exhibition in the city museum Zweibrücken from August 29 to November 14, 2010. This state exhibition was under the patronage of Prime Minister Kurt Beck and the head of the House of Wittelsbach, Franz Duke of Bavaria and presented for the first time a comprehensive overview of the eventful history of the Duchy of Palatinate -Zweibrücken and its cultural achievements.

Exhibitions in the states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse

The Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums declared the 2010 and 2013 exhibitions on the Staufer and Wittelsbachers as an exhibition of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, but took over the complete responsibility and financing of the exhibitions themselves. The state of Rhineland-Palatinate was only through the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (GDKE) with parallel events in the Museum bei der Kaiserpfalz in Ingelheim, the Theodor-Zink-Museum Kaiserslautern, the Museum Alzey and the Historisches Museum der Pfalz in Speyer.

• The Hohenstaufen and Italy . September 19, 2010 to February 20, 2011, exhibition by the states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. This first joint exhibition of the three countries took place 30 years after the big Staufer exhibition in Stuttgart in 1977. It was carried out by the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in Mannheim.
• The Wittelsbachers on the Rhine . September 8, 2013 to March 2, 2014, 2nd exhibition by the states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Empire of the Salians 1024–1125 . Catalog for the exhibition of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1992, ISBN 3-7995-4140-3
2. ↑ Alexander Demandt, Josef Engemann: Konstantin der Große. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3688-8
3. ↑ Brief description of the exhibition on diePfalz.de
4. ↑ Internet page for the Great State Exhibition 2018 about Karl Marx in Trier
5. ↑ The Great State Exhibition 2020 The emperors and the pillars of their power
6. ↑ Johannes Mötsch: Baldwin of Luxembourg: Archbishop of Trier, Elector of the Empire, 1285-1354 ; Catalog for the state exhibition in Trier, 1985 GND 930926013
7. ↑ Ursula Weber (Red.): The Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and the French Revolution. Catalog of the state exhibition, Ministry of Culture Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 1989
8. ^ Eva-Maria Reuther: 1300 years of monasteries in the Eifel . Illustrated booklet accompanying the state exhibition in Wittlich in 1994
9. ^ Art, commerce, religious struggle: Frankenthal around 1600 ; Exhibition by the City of Frankenthal (Palatinate) and the State of Rhineland-Palatinate on the occasion of the Rhineland-Palatinate Day in Frankenthal (Palatinate); Erkenbert Museum, published on behalf of the city of Frankenthal (Pfalz) by Edgar J. Hürkey with the collaboration of Ingrid Bürgy-de Ruijter, 1995, ISBN 3-88462-118-1
10. ^ Elisabeth Kessler-Slotta: In great demand, Zweibrücker Porzellan 1767–1775. City Museum Zweibrücken 2002, ISBN 3-00-009554-3
11. ↑ Beate Dorfey: “In love? Engaged! Married ... Rhineland-Palatinate: The Early Years ", decentralized state exhibition on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate ( memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Our Archives No. 52, April 2007. 
12. ↑ Charlotte Glück-Christmann (ed.): The cradle of the kings . City of Zweibrücken, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-031658-6
13. ^ Alfried Wieczorek, Bernd Schneidemüller, Stefan Weinfurter (eds.): Die Staufer and Italy. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2366-8
14. ↑ Website of the exhibition "Die Staufer and Italy" ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 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. 
15. ^ Alfried Wieczorek, Michael Hörrmann: The Wittelsbacher on the Rhine: the Electoral Palatinate and Europe. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2644-6
16. ↑ Website of the exhibition “Die Wittelsbacher am Rhein” ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.