Friedland Museum
The Friedland Museum is located in Friedland in Lower Saxony . The museum researches, secures, presents and conveys the history of the Friedland transit camp , which has existed since 1945 .
founding
More than four million people have passed the border transit camp to date, including refugees , displaced persons and expelled, released prisoners of war and displaced persons , repatriates and repatriates from many parts of the world. The establishment of the museum goes back to a cross-factional decision of the Lower Saxony state parliament on October 11, 2006. In it, the Lower Saxony state government was asked to properly appreciate the historical importance of the Friedland transit camp by setting up a museum. The museum opened on March 18, 2016 and had around 16,000 visitors in the first year. Before that, there was limited documentation of the camp history in a Nissen hut on the camp grounds.
Museum building
The museum is housed in the historic Friedland train station, which was and is an important connection to the border transit camp. The building offers 350 m² of exhibition space. The former luggage hall of the train station now serves as a foyer. The listed building was completely renovated and modernized before it was converted. There was also a glass stair tower with an elevator system, which ensures barrier-free access.
Plans are currently underway (2020) to expand the museum. A visitor, media and documentation center is planned by 2023, which will be embedded in a park between the historic train station and the border transit camp.
Exhibition and collection
In its permanent exhibition “Vanishing Point Friedland” the museum shows the history of the border transit camp from 1945 to the present day. It deals with the complex processes of farewell, arrival and new beginnings and addresses issues of citizenship and national identity, home, human rights and asylum.
Using multimedia presentations, the stories of individual people and over 400 exhibits, visitors learn how the work and importance of the camp have changed over time. The dynamics of migration are also discussed as well as attempts to steer and control them. Temporary exhibitions in a Nissen hut on the camp grounds complete the exhibition program.
The Friedland Museum collects and preserves evidence from the past and present of the Friedland transit camp. The collection is continuously being expanded and made scientifically accessible. It currently comprises several thousand items related to the Friedland camp or the lives of people who walked through it. The collection includes personal belongings of the camp residents, photographs and documents as well as more than 200 video interviews with contemporary witnesses from all decades from 1945 to the present day.
Accompanying museum work
Through accompanying museum work, such as exhibitions, projects, museum educational offers and events, knowledge about the forms and causes of migration should be conveyed. It should enable social participation and stimulate discussions about borders, affiliations and notions of freedom, human rights and asylum.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum success across the board in Göttinger Tageblatt on March 29, 2017
- ^ Museum Friedland - Farewell, Arrival, New Beginning . Federal Office of Administration, accessed November 7, 2019.
- ↑ Britta Bielefeld: For 13 million: This is how the new Friedland building should look in Göttinger Tageblatt of August 28, 2018
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '17.4 " N , 9 ° 54' 52.1" E