Müritzeum
 The house of 1000 lakes - since 2007 the main building of the Müritzeum |
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| place | Zur Steinmole 1, 17192 Waren (Müritz) 
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| Art |
Natural History Museum
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| architect | Architect's office by Gert Wingårdh |
| opening | 2007 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 160,000 to 191,000 (2010) |
| operator |
Müritzeum non-profit GmbH
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| management |
Mathias Küster
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-839818 |
The Müritzeum in Waren (Müritz) is a museum and at the same time the large nature experience center in the Mecklenburg Lake District . Exhibitions on nature and the environment, the history of the country and collections are shown on around 2,300 m². The Müritzeum consists of the areas of bird life , forest and nature , aquarium landscape and a museum garden .
The natural history state collections for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are part of MÜRITZEUM gGmbH, which was founded in Waren on January 1, 2007 . The beginnings of the collections go back to a museum foundation from 1866. They document the flora , fauna and geology of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania inland and comprise more than 285,000 specimens.
concept
The Müritzeum project involved the redesign and integration of the Müritz Museum with its Müritz Aquarium and the regional natural history collections. A tourist attraction was created in Waren, which brings the natural and cultural history of the Mecklenburg Lake District and the state closer to both the visitors to the region and the locals.
On December 14, 2005, the foundation stone was laid for a new exhibition building designed by the Swedish architects Gert Wingårdh (Gothenburg). It is an extraordinary building, the facade of which was clad with charred larch wood. The new house opened on August 2, 2007, after the renovated historical museum building with a new exhibition had already been opened to the public a year earlier. The exhibition area is around 2,300 m². In the house of 1000 lakes , a special attraction was created with the freshwater aquarium , the largest special aquarium for domestic fish in Germany.
The concept of the exhibition is based on the playful and interactive, scientifically sound handling of the topics of nature and national history.
The modern permanent exhibition in the historical building, the House of Collections , tells the history of the museum and provides information about the collection.
The Müritzeum is also the region's welcome center . It offers extensive information on current cultural and tourist offers in the Mecklenburg Lake District and in the Müritz National Park.
description
complements the nature experience for more than a year
Aquarium
On an entire floor of the new exhibition building, the House of 1000 Lakes , around 50 species of fish as well as crabs and other aquatic life are shown in 26 tanks with a capacity of approx. 200,000 liters . The focus is on the 105,000 liter deep basin, which is filled with a swarm of the large and the small vendace. The typical fish of the rivers and streams are presented in a recreated river course. This also includes sturgeons; this fish species is threatened with extinction. The two sturgeon species that were once common in the North and Baltic Seas are to be reintroduced with breeding programs. In the Müritzeum you can see the American Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) and, since September 7, 2015, the European Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser sturio) as a new species. In addition, three other sturgeon species are shown.
From 2014 until his death in November 2016, a “golden” pike was kept in a special basin that came from Lake Malchin. The golden color is a rare biosynthesis disorder also known as albinism .
exhibition
In addition to text information, the interactive exhibition also includes numerous animal preparations, short films and animal sounds. Geological objects invite you to “understand” nature. There is a reproduced trunk of a 1000-year-old Ivenack oak.
Museum garden and Herrensee
The museum garden with an area of two hectares extends around the Herrensee and connects the two exhibition halls. There are old trees here, for example an approximately 1000-year-old oak tree, a large number of wild animals, geological and historical collection objects , a hive of honeybees and exhibits on beekeeping. The garden can also be visited at night.
Diver in the deep pool
Glass wall of the pond
Forest
Golden pike
History and Development
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In 1866 Hermann von Maltzan founded the von MALTZAN`SCHE Natural History Museum for Mecklenburg in Waren. The first public natural history museum in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was created . Maltzan was able to win the Waren teacher Carl Struck as honorary curator and director of the museum. Both were members of the Association of Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg . Here they made connections with collectors and naturalists in Mecklenburg. From them the museum received numerous collections and valuable individual specimens in the following decades. As early as the 19th century, a considerable amount of natural science collections developed. The annual archive of the Association of Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg regularly reported on the museum's progress and called for further support.
Maltzaneum
In 1884 a museum building was built with the support of the city of Waren. The sale of the house in 1919 and the temporary placement of the collections in different locations interrupted the ongoing work. Due to the great commitment of the Association for Homeland Security in Waren, the Maltzaneum was given rooms in the building of the former community school in 1929. The collections were looked after on a voluntary basis by some members of the association for many years.
The Second World War and the post-war period left their mark on the collections. Even in the last days of the war, several museums moved valuable collections to the Sophienhof Palace near Waren. The Maltzaneum also had to deposit preparations from the bird collection here. The castle and almost all collections were destroyed by arson. Some of the losses after the war were mainly due to missing display windows and the lack of heating material. The entomologist Carl Hainmüller (1875–1956) ran the museum on a voluntary basis from 1927 to 1929 and full-time from 1946 to 1948. He owes the extensive expansion and reorganization of the insect collection as well as the establishment of a specialist library. Karl Bartels (1884–1957), ornithologist and from 1923 nature conservation officer and monument curator for the prehistory of the district of Waren, initially looked after the bird collection on a voluntary basis. From 1948 to 1956 he was museum director.
Müritz Museum
In 1957, the Natural History Museum (Maltzaneum) was combined with the local history museum, which had also been housed in the same building since 1929, under the name of the Müritz Museum . In the following years, the work of the historical department in the areas of the local and agricultural history of Mecklenburg as well as the history of the labor movement was strongly promoted. The focus of the work of the natural sciences department was primarily on educational tasks and a special commitment to nature conservation. The redesign of the exhibitions began. After 1973 the museum received the status of a special museum for national culture, nature conservation and the environment. The change in museum management gave new impetus to scientific collection and research work. The process of a return to the special importance of the natural history state collections began.
The renovation of the museum building, begun in 1982, lasted until 1991 and was associated with severe restrictions in the work of the collection. After the reopening of the house, the profiling of the museum was completed with the outsourcing of the historical collections of the former local history museum as well as the prehistoric and early historical collections. The Müritz Museum could rightly call itself the State Museum of Natural History for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and thus once again refer to the tradition and importance of the collections. Extended storage rooms and a new preparation workshop gave the continuation of the collection work new possibilities. The establishment of computerized collection databases was started. As a result of our own collections, new preparations and donations, the collection increased considerably.
Müritzeum
In 2005 the first phase of the MÜRITZEUM project began with a renewed renovation and redesign of the historical museum building into the House of Collections . The construction of a second large exhibition building followed in 2006. With the establishment of MÜRITZEUM gGmbH on January 1, 2007, the natural history state collections, which, however, remained under the sponsorship of the district, became part of MÜRITZEUM. In August 2007, the project was successfully completed with the opening of the exhibitions in the “House of 1000 Lakes”. In 2018 the Müritzeum was rebuilt and brought up to date and now shows the beech forests of the Serrahnerberge, which were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site in June 2011
Natural history state collections for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
In almost 150 years, the Natural History Museum in Waren has brought together more than 285,000 exhibits on the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the botanical, zoological and geological collections. Through our own collecting activities, the consignment and preparation of dead finds as well as the acceptance of collection bequests and donations, the collection is constantly growing.
Of particular importance is the bird collection, which currently contains more than 3,030 standing specimens and hides , 4,115 clutches with more than 11,100 bird eggs , 696 pluckings and around 300 skeletons . Almost all breeding bird species in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are represented, but also those species that have been identified as migrants or wanderers. Further focal points of the collection are the herbarium with around 41,000 specimens of plants, the mollusc collection with original specimens from Hermann von Maltzan, and the collection of domestic insects comprising around 175,000 specimens .
A well-equipped preparation workshop and a specialist taxidermist are the basis for the conservation care of the collections. In cooperation with specialists as well as scientists from universities, museums and scientific institutions, various collections could be scientifically processed and made accessible. The collection data is digitally recorded step by step.
In addition to the natural science collections, an extensive inventory of photographs, maps, documents and a variety of archive materials was developed . A specialist library with a focus on natural history and Mecklenburgica was created through donations, purchases and collectors' bequests. More than 100 periodicals and a collection of reprints are available for academic work.
literature
- Experience, collect and preserve nature (museum guide, ed. Müritzeum), 5th, exp. Edition 2014.
- Renate Seemann and Lothar Schemschat: The beetles in the insect collection of the Natural History State Collections for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the MÜRITZEUM in Waren , in: Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologische Verein Mecklenburg , Volume 15, Issue 1 (2012), page 35 (PDF; 709 kB)
Web links
- Literature about Müritzeum in the state bibliography MV
- Official website
- Animal population in the aquarium
Individual evidence
- ↑ Around 160,000 visitors flock to the Müritzeum ›We are Müritzer. In: We are Müritzer. December 29, 2017, accessed on November 19, 2019 (German).
- ↑ a b Idea and implementation - Müritzeum Ulrich Meßner, Jürgen Seidel, Jost Reinhold, Manfredachtenhagen. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Aquarium landscapes - Müritzeum Aquarium. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Rare sturgeon - Müritzeum sturgeon, endangered species, reintroduction, Baltic Sea. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Goldener pike - Müritzeum gold pike, Goldenre pike, color anomaly, albinism, quarantine, pike, Müritzeum, goods, Mecklenburg Lake District. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Müritzeum , Flyer 2017 (10 years).
- ↑ Outdoor facilities - Müritzeum Herrensee, Park. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
- ↑ a b history - Müritzeum history. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Catalog of the bird collection (PDF). In: mueritzeum.de. 2011, accessed November 19, 2019 .
- ^ Specialist group ornithology of the NABU RV Müritz. Retrieved on November 19, 2019 (German).
- ^ Archive of the museum. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Jürgen Kniesz: Waren (Müritz): A tour through the city (history) . In: Sutton Verlag GmbH . ISBN 3-86680-944-1 .
- ↑ MV1 : Müritzeum will reopen its doors after renovation on YouTube , December 7, 2018, accessed on November 19, 2019.
- ^ Collections of the Müritzeum. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .