Museum Münstertal
The Museum Münstertal, located in the town hall of the municipality of Münstertal , deals with the history of mining, forestry and settlement in the Münstertal.
history
The Forest Museum, founded in 1980, was renamed "Museum Münstertal - Museum for Mining, Forestry, Settlement and Local History of the Münstertal" in the Münstertal Town Hall in spring 2015 with a collection compiled comprehensively by the Münstertal eV home initiative, the citizenship and the community newly opened. It focuses on the fields of forest history, mining history, folklore as well as the local history and settlement history of the Münster valley.
Subject
The museum provides information about native animal species by means of a permanent exhibition on a topic, shows equipment used in forest and forestry work and documents traditional wood processing and use. The historical forest trades such as glass blowing in the Münstertal are shown. The millennia-old mining history is also explained with the help of numerous exhibits on the mining tradition. A special exhibit is the popularly known “Schuh vom Teufelsgrund”, a shoe that dates back to the late 14th century and is one of the oldest miner's shoes in Germany. The settlement history of the Münstertal and finds from the submerged mining town of Münster in the Münstertal are shown. The so-called "Trudpert's key", a door or chest key from the Merovingian period , is a special exhibit .
Special exhibitions
Alternating special exhibitions are offered, for example on nature, art, the trades and traditions of the Münster valley.
Museum education
The museum education of the Museum Münstertal is based on the imparting of environmental and forest history knowledge for all age groups and visitor groups. Interactive elements such as a narrative mine telephone , sound modules, 3D films, a museum app and an interactive forest nature trail are also used.
operator
The museum is set up and looked after on a voluntary basis by the Heimatinitiative Münstertal eV [HiM]. The registered and recognized non-profit association HiM aims to research the history of the municipality of Münstertal in the Black Forest as well as to preserve and convey regional and local historical knowledge with a focus on historical mining and forest history . He has also set himself the goal of caring for, protecting and preserving the smallest, natural and ground monuments of the Münstertal as local cultural assets.