Liesborn Abbey Museum

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Liesborn Abbey entrance to the museum

The Liesborn Abbey Museum is a museum for art and cultural history in Liesborn in the Warendorf district . It is located in the baroque abbey residence of the former Liesborn Abbey of the Benedictines in Liesborn.

The Warendorf district is responsible for the museum. The museum wants to give an insight into the culture and art of the district from the Middle Ages to the present day. The combination of traditional art with modern art by young artists from the region is what makes the museum so attractive.

Entry is free. The museum is accessible to the disabled .

history

The Liesborn Abbey Museum was founded in 1966 with only two rooms as an exhibition space. In the course of time, the museum developed to occupy all rooms of the abbey with an area of ​​2,500 m². Nevertheless, due to the constant growth of the exhibits, the collections could only be presented in a restricted and cramped manner. As part of REGIONALE 2004, an expansion of the museum to 3,000 m² was planned and inaugurated on July 10, 2004.

The Liesborn Abbey Museum is now one of the most important museums in the Münsterland and the largest in the Warendorf district. With around 20,000 visitors a year, the museum is among the top 25 percent of the most visited museums in Germany.

Elisabeth Schwarm , who had previously worked at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , took over the management of the museum from Bennie Hugh Priddy on June 1, 2012 , who had held this position for 25 years.

The architect was Dieter Georg Baumewerd . The Liesborn Abbey Museum received the Good Buildings Award 2006/2007 (BDA Münster - Münsterland) and Exemplary Buildings in North Rhine-Westphalia 2005 (State of North Rhine-Westphalia / Chamber of Architects North Rhine-Westphalia ).

Collections

The permanent exhibition contains the following collections:

  • Medieval and Renaissance art: stone and wood sculptures, liturgical vestments, goldsmiths and paintings.
  • Baroque art: sacred art and a rich collection of paintings from the 17th century Dutch.
  • Art of the 19th and 20th centuries: paintings, sculptures and prints as a mirror of the art of this time.
  • Furniture and decorative art: Objects from the Middle Ages to the present day round off the art collections and bring the works of art into connection with the living environment of the respective epoch.
  • Textile collection: slogans from the late 19th and early 20th centuries illustrate the taste of the times and the changing role of women.
  • Workshop of the master von Liesborn : The Westphalian painter, unknown by name, is the main representative of Westphalian panel painting of the late Middle Ages. A panel with the impotence of Mary from the master himself and two other panels from his environment are on display.
  • Memorial for Augustin Wibbelt: pieces of furniture and furnishings by the popular poet of the Low German language of the Munsterland dialect Pastor Dr. Augustin Wibbelt (1862–1947).
  • Folklore department: collection of various handicraft tools and products from the region.
  • Crucifix collection: Europe's largest collection of crucifixes , crosses and depictions of the crucifixion . The collection includes more than 500 objects from ancient times to the present. You can see victorious images of Christ from the Romanesque, depictions of the suffering from the Gothic, mighty sculptures from the Baroque, the sentimentality of the 19th century and modern works. Including objects by well-known artists such as Salvador Dalí , Marc Chagall and Joseph Beuys .

Special exhibitions and events

More than 15 special exhibitions are shown in the museum every year. Every summer, the museum holds a handicraft day on which old handicraft techniques can be experienced in practice. In the months of May / June, the nationally known Liesborn Museum concerts have been taking place in the historic rooms since 1972. In the chamber concerts, well-known artists appear side by side with young musicians and winners of "Jugend musiziert".

The annual music forum is held in October in cooperation with the Beckum-Wadersloh adult education center. The forum includes seminars for music students, music teachers and advanced students as well as evening concerts.

location

  • Museum Abtei Liesborn, Abteiring 8, 59329 Liesborn

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From Dresden to Liesborn: Dr. Elisabeth Schwarm becomes the new museum director.
  2. ↑ Dierk Hartleb: Bye, bye Bennie! Museum director Dr. Bennie Priddy said goodbye. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. Münster, May 10, 2012.
  3. ^ Liesborn Museum Concerts
  4. ↑ VHS Beckum-Wadersloh

Web links

Commons : Museum Abtei Liesborn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 46 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 31 ″  E