Museo Universitario del Chopo

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Museo del Chopo

The Museo Universitario del Chopo is a museum in Mexico City . The museum is located in the colonia Santa María la Ribera (district) north of the city center, near the Universidad Politécnica del Valle de México . The building, similar to a basilica, is a filigree, slender construction made of visible framework made of iron or steel, glass surfaces and light brick infills with two unclad steel framework towers, some 50 meters high, slightly in front of the facade. In addition to six galleries, including one on Mexican painting of the 20th century, there is a cinema, a café, a library and an archive inside.

history

Halls of the Gutehoffnungshütte and the Deutz gas engine factory, 1902, postcard
Panorama of the 1902 industrial and commercial exhibition in Düsseldorf : The twin towers of the Art Nouveau hall by Bruno Möhring can be seen in the center of the picture.

The industrial building with Art Nouveau decorations originally came from Germany. In 1902 it was commissioned by the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen and the Deutz gas engine factory (later part of the Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz works ) according to plans by the Berlin architect Bruno Möhring and the chief designer of the Gutehoffnungshütte, Reinhold Krohn (bridge construction department in Oberhausen-Sterkrade), as an exhibition hall for the Rheinisch-Westfälische industrial and trade exhibition in Düsseldorf-Golzheim . The hall was a direct model for the famous Art Nouveau machine hall of the Zeche Zollern II / IV in Dortmund-Bövinghausen , also designed by Möhring . Since it was clear from the outset that the hall would not remain in Düsseldorf permanently, it was designed to be completely dismountable using screws.

Mexico Museum

The larger main part was acquired by the Mexican company José Landeros y Cos in collaboration with the Compañía Mexicana de Exposición Permanente, shipped to Mexico and rebuilt from 1903 to 1905 near the Buenavista train station. There it served from 1909 as the national museum of the natural history of Mexico, showing dinosaurs and other things. In 1960, severe damage to the collection led to the museum being closed. From 1973, the hall passed to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), which reopened the building after renovation and redesign on November 25, 1975 as a center for young, avant-garde and experimental art (visual arts, theater and music). The building was renovated and rebuilt from 2006 to 2010 according to plans by the Argentine architect Enrique Norton. All later fixtures were removed and a free-standing ramp spanning several floors was installed inside.

Möhring Hall Cologne

The elements of the smaller part were initially forgotten after the exhibition, the hall was considered lost. At the beginning of the 21st century, the hall was rediscovered in two parts. The wing construction was brought to Cologne-Deutz on the premises of the Deutz gas engine factory and rebuilt in simplified form as a core shop (Hall 17, so-called “Möhring Hall”).

Web links

Commons : Museo Universitario del Chopo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Cologne: Möhring-Halle remains standing ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2007 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. , industrie-kultur.de, July 12, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.industrie-kultur.de
  2. ↑ In a similar way, the exhibition hall of the Bochumer Verein was later used as a blower hall for the blast furnaces in the Bochum cast steelworks; Today it is with rebuilding and extension Jahrhunderthalle emerged.

Coordinates: 19 ° 26 ′ 31 ″  N , 99 ° 9 ′ 24.2 ″  W.