Museum Goch
The Museum Goch is a museum in Goch in the administrative district of Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
After the First World War , Jean Klein came up with the plan to found a local museum in Goch . He provided his collection of furniture, household items and pictures as a basis. At the same time, he also brought in extensive written material about people in the city, as well as events from the Napoleon campaign and its effects on the Lower Rhine . This is how the first local history museum was created in the Steintor in 1920. After the city was largely destroyed in 1945, the museum and its remaining holdings were reopened in 1956 at the same location.
In 1991 the new museum was opened to the public with a significantly expanded collection. For this purpose, the former district court in Kastellstrasse was extensively restored and rebuilt, with the intention of conveying local and regional history. In the meantime, the scope of duties has expanded and various houses are attached to the museum. These include the Arnold-Jansen-Haus and the royal family. The five-ring house, a civil building from the 16th century, is used for temporary exhibitions of local history. In its changing exhibitions, the Goch Museum mainly shows works by young artists.
collection
In the early years of the museum, local and regional history was given a large space within the house. The decision to use the two ground floor rooms as temporary exhibition areas was later extended to the rooms on the top floor. The own collection on the first floor does not follow any chronological order. With its collection and its presentation, the museum takes up the idea of a museum in motion. The works of art, from the late Gothic sculptures from the Lower Rhine region, the neo-Gothic sculptures from the Langenberg workshop to the works of young contemporary artists from Germany, Cuba, South Africa and Israel, enter into a direct dialogue with one another in the presentation.
Arnold Janssen House
The birth house of St. Arnold Janssen (1837–1909) is located in the middle of downtown Goch near the market. Here he spent his early childhood and youth. The Arnold-Janssen-Haus is now a memorial and museum. In addition to the historical rooms, visitors are offered changing themed exhibitions on the 1st floor.
Royal house
The museum offers painting and creative courses in the former residential building on Königsstrasse. It is about a wide variety of topics from classic painting and drawing, to the pottery of vessels, and the burning of small sculptures.
Five-ring house
The " House of the Five Rings " was built between the beginning and the middle of the 16th century. A brewery was housed in the building for a long time (from 1650), which continued until the beginning of the 20th century. The house “zu den Fünf Ringen” has been owned by the city of Goch since 2003, which had the exterior facade extensively renovated. Inside, the first dismantling was made with regard to the room layout. This only surviving Gothic town house in Goch has been loaned to the museum. Here it shows the history of the city in temporary exhibitions.
Special exhibitions
- 2017: Norbert Schwontkowski . Laughed in death's face , then in the Wilhelmshaven art gallery . Companion book.
- 2018/19: Auke de Vries . What a beautiful day
- 2019: Gottfried Lambert
literature
- Museum Goch. Open daily. 2006 ISBN 3-86568-048-8
- Museum Goch. 1991 ISBN 3-926245-09-3
- Dietmar N. Schmidt (Ed.), Modern Art in NRW. A museum guide. 2003. Pages 248-252. ISBN 3-8321-7256-4
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 31.2 ″ N , 6 ° 9 ′ 42.1 ″ E