Museum of Nature and People Freiburg

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Museum of Nature and Man
Museum of Nature and Man at the Gerberau
Museum of Nature and Man at the Gerberau
Data
place Freiburg in Breisgau
Art
operator
City of Freiburg im Breisgau
management
Silke Stoll
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-048715

The Museum Natur und Mensch in Freiburg im Breisgau houses extensive natural and ethnographic collections. It is on the edge of the old town, right on Augustinerplatz.

history

Originally this museum was founded in 1895 as the municipal museum for natural history and ethnology. After several changes of location, the Natural History Museum first opened its showrooms in the former school building on the Gerberau at the end of 1931; the ethnographic holdings remained in storage. The museum building was erected from 1855 to 1856 as a school building for the “Teaching and Education Institute” of the Dominican nuns of the Adelshausen Monastery, which was dissolved in 1867, by city architect Jakob Straub . After extensive renovation work at the end of the 1970s, it was gradually reopened from 1982 onwards.

The geologist Ferdinand Schalch was appointed by Harry Rosenbusch with the founding of the Grand Ducal Baden Geological State Institute . He built up a geological collection in Freiburg analogous to the geological mapping of Baden. This collection of documents was lost during the Second World War. From 1934 until his release in June 1945 and subsequent suicide, the biologist Heinrich Schütz was director of the Museum für Naturkunde.

In 1961, at the annual meeting of the German Society for Ethnology, which took place in Freiburg, the ethnographic collections that had been in storage for decades were set up in the rooms of the directly attached Adelhauser Neukloster by Ingeborg Krummer-Schroth from the Augustiner Museum . This was the reason for the museums to hire Bodo Spranz as the first full-time museum director for the Ethnographic Museum. In addition to the exhibition collections, two to four special exhibitions and several studio exhibitions were shown each year. In 1996 the previously independent museums were merged into the Adelhausermuseum under joint management.

On February 15, 2006, the entire ethnographic area (the former Adelhauser Neukloster) and one floor of the natural history exhibition were unexpectedly closed due to current regulations on preventive fire protection. The remaining showrooms were open to the public until December 30, 2006. The ethnographic holdings have been completely stored in a magazine, but are shown in special exhibitions. The building of the Adelhauser Neukloster was given up.

Since January 2007, the exhibition activities on the ground floor at the Gerberau have been continued in a compact form under the working title “Project: Museum Nature & Culture” despite the temporarily cramped conditions. The museum team of the natural and ethnological departments as well as the museum's education department offered individual and target group-oriented programs for all visitors and groups of all ages (focus: kindergarten groups and school classes).

During the renovation phase in 2008 and 2009, the museum temporarily suspended its exhibition activities in order to be able to concentrate fully on the redesign of the museum building “Gerberau 32” as a “family museum”. The museum education continued to offer topics on natural history and ethnology in their workshop room.

Since December 5th, 2009 the minerals, precious stones, fossils and preparations have been on display again in the “Life in the Network” exhibition. Since April 1, 2014, the former nature museum has been called Museum Natur und Mensch .

Donors from the founding years of the museum are listed on a plaque of honor in the entrance area. A media station has been providing information about these donors and their donations since Christmas 2015.

collection

Until 2006, the museum with its natural and ethnological collections had provided insights into the cultural history of foreign countries and the peculiarities of our natural spaces: In the ethnology department this was up to and including everyday objects, art and ritual objects from Africa , Asia , and Indian America as well as the South Seas . The acquisition of numerous ethnologically significant exhibits dates back to the late 19th century. Freiburg citizens collected them on their sometimes extensive travels through Asia and other regions of the world and later left them to the museum (cf. Odo Deodatus I. Tauern ).

In the natural history department (geosciences and biosciences) you can find out interesting facts about gemstones , ores and minerals , mining in the Black Forest , meteorites , rocks and fossils as well as numerous insects , bird and mammal preparations. The regional focus of the collection lies in the area of southwest Germany ( Baden-Württemberg ), but individual parts of the collection are also internationally oriented, e.g. B. the gem cabinet. The latter was launched in 1960 to commemorate the formerly supraregional important gemstone cutting trade in Breisgau , which was already described by Sebastian Münster in 1544: Freiburg and Waldkirch were next to cities such as Strasbourg , Nuremberg , Vienna and for almost half a millennium Milan important centers for highly developed stone grinders and hollowworkers. Other European grinding centers, on the other hand, only achieved great renown later, including the internationally known gemstone metropolis Idar-Oberstein . Until the early 19th century, the Freiburg "drill and Balierer" a monopoly over the processing of the Bohemian had garnet pyrope held.

literature

Web links

Commons : Museum Natur und Mensch Freiburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Zimmermann: Silke Stoll has been head of the Freiburg Museum of Nature and People - Freiburg - Badische Zeitung since December. Badische Zeitung, January 25, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Freiburg: A new name for the nature museum: Lebenswelten - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved April 4, 2014 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '35.9 "  N , 7 ° 51' 5.7"  E