Aargau Museum

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The Aargau Museum (until 2007 the Aargau Historical Museum ) includes the castles Lenzburg , Hallwyl , Habsburg and Wildegg , the Königsfelden monastery , the Vindonissa Legionnaires' Trail and the Vindonissa Museum as well as the Egliswil collection center and the Aabach industrial culture. It plays a pioneering role in museum education within Switzerland.

history

In 1832, the canton of Aargau officially started a collection of antiques. After the abolition of the monastery in the canton of Aargau in 1841, the treasures of the monasteries in Königsfelden, Muri and Wettingen became state property and some came to Aarau , where they were kept in various locations; the coin collections of the monasteries Muri and Wettingen were housed in the Aarau State Vault. In 1868, the historical objects that had previously been scattered in various locations in Aarau were provisionally presented in the attics of the Aarauer Schlössli .

In 1877 the cantonal "Antiquarium" was set up in three rooms of the salt store in Aarau. The trade museum opened in 1895 in a villa in Aarau that was converted by Karl Moser . The collection of the cantonal antiquarian shop, the collection of paintings and engravings of the Aargauer Kunstverein, the ethnographic collection of the Central Swiss Geographical-Commercial Society and a Aargau sample and model collection were presented under one roof. In 1956 the historical objects were stored in the basement of the building. In 1987 the Aargau Historical Museum opened at Lenzburg Castle. The prehistoric and Roman material had previously been discarded and given to the canton archeology , which operates the Vindonissa Museum in Brugg .

Hallwyl Castle was reopened in 2004 under the aegis of the Historisches Museum Aargau, which was renamed Museum Aargau in 2007. In 2009, the museum group took over the Habsburgs and the Königsfelden monastery church from the cantonal archeology. In autumn 2010, the Vindonissa Legionnaires' Trail, which was opened in 2009, was added to the Aargau Museum.

On January 1, 2011, it also took over the museum operations at Wildegg Castle from the Swiss National Museum . Since January 1, 2017, the Vindonissa Museum in Brugg has also been part of the Museum Aargau. In 2018, the first virtual museum space in the canton of Aargau, the IndustriekulTOUR Aabach, emerged from a cooperation between the Museum Aargau, the Museum Burghalde and the Industriekultur Aabach Association.

collection

The collection of the Museum Aargau, which today comprises around 55,000 objects, has grown from old state property, private collections bequeathed to the canton, public collections as well as new acquisitions and donations. In 1946, the Zschokke brothers transferred numerous antiques to the canton. Targeted purchases of collections took place from the 1970s onwards as part of the redesign of the museum on the Lenzburg. In 1977 household appliances and antiques from the last residents of Lenzburg Castle, August Edward Jessup, James and Lincoln Ellsworth , were added to the historical collections. In 2004 objects from the collection of the Hallwyl Foundation were taken over. Today pieces are purchased or taken over that are significant as a cultural asset in Aargau or that make sense of the existing holdings. The collection of objects relating to industrial history in the canton of Aargau is particularly important.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angela Dettling: Experience history up close. The history of Lenzburg through time. In: Argovia. 2009, pp. 271-283; Report in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from July 22, 2011 .
  2. ↑ The Vindonissa Museum in Brugg was the scene of a coronation. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .

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