Essen-Kupferdreh Minerals Museum

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Minerals Museum in the old school in Essen-Kupferdreh

The Essen-Kupferdreh Mineral Museum was founded in 1984 as a cooperation project between the Bürgerschaft Kupferdreh eV and the former Ruhrland Museum, now the Ruhr Museum , in the Kupferdreh district of Essen .

history

In the spring of 1982 the copper turner citizen Oswald Hänisch offered his extensive private mineral collection to the evangelical community for takeover. As a condition, however, he made that this collection be exhibited publicly and made accessible to schools and universities. The presbytery could not realize this and turned to the local home and citizens' association, the Bürgerschaft Kupferdreh eV The board of the citizenship negotiated with the help of various councilors and the city director of the city of Essen with the management of the Ruhrland Museum. This resulted in a cooperation project that is probably unique in Germany. For this purpose, the citizenship made the collection, which has meanwhile been taken over by notary agreement, available and the Ruhrland Museum combined the exhibition with its mineralogical and geological collection. The inauguration took place on July 29, 1984. The citizenship also leads a working group to this day, in which the board members take care of the building of the mineral museum on a voluntary basis. Today's Ruhr Museum is responsible for management and maintenance .

Exhibitions

The core of the exhibition originally formed the collection of Oswald Hänisch. In addition, the Ruhrland Museum held other mineral exhibitions. Between 1986 and 2006, constantly changing special exhibitions were set up on a wide variety of topics, such as “Magical power of precious stones”, “In the realm of darkness” or “Lahn marble”. One of the most recent special exhibitions was “The Sound of Stones”.

When it became clear in 2007 that the Ruhrland Museum would be demolished and rebuilt as the Ruhr Museum in the old coal washing plant of the Zollverein colliery, the Mineral Museum in Kupferdreh was extensively renovated and large parts of the geological and archaeological collection of the Ruhr Museum were exhibited there. The “Sound of Stones” exhibition also became an integral part. The museum also has a small preparation workshop where courses are held.

New opening

After extensive renovation work and a realignment of the permanent exhibition, the Mineral Museum reopened on September 9, 2018. With the realignment of the permanent exhibition, the museum is showing a combination of geology, biology and mineralogy that is unique in Germany. It is dedicated to the research areas of biomineralization and bioinorganic chemistry. The new presentation comprises a total of seven exhibition rooms on three floors. With the topics "Stuff of stars - dust of galaxies", "The crystal chamber", "What remains of life", "The crystalline world in us", "Minerals in flora and fauna", "Raw materials - engine of civilization" and the "sound of stones" focuses on mineralogical themes.

The building

The former Hinsbeck School was built in 1856. It was the first permanent school building in Hinsbeck. The building was later expanded twice.

After the major school reform in 1969, the building was initially empty and was later used by an educational institution for disabled children. It was supposed to be demolished at the end of the 1970s, but was then placed under a preservation order. In 1980 the “Bürgerschaft Kupferdreh” took the initiative and rented rooms for the association. It was planned to create a home for all copper lathe clubs there. That was not feasible. So the building finally offered itself as the seat of the Mineral Museum. For this purpose, volunteers worked hundreds of hours to renovate the old building. In addition to the museum, the house also houses the local archive and the business premises of the Kupferdreh community .

Special exhibitions in today's Ruhr Museum

  • 2010: How time flies. Photographs from a Hungarian village. 1975-1995-2005 (March 20 to August 29)

literature

Web links

Commons : Mineralien-Museum Kupferdreh  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '32.4 "  N , 7 ° 4' 57.7"  E