Museum creation
 Exterior facade in summer 2019 |
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| Data | |
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| place | Winterthur |
| Art |
historical Museum
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| opening | 2018 |
| operator |
Historic Association Winterthur
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| management |
Stefano Mengarelli
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| Website | |
The Museum Schaffen (spelling: museum create ) is the historical museum of the city of Winterthur and is supported by the Historisches Verein Winterthur (HVW). It is affiliated with the Lindengut Museum , which is responsible for the local history museum . It is the fundamental reorientation of the Lindengut Museum and is dedicated to the topic of work in the past, present and future, especially under the aspect of city history.
Since 2017, the Schaffen Museum has been a temporary guest in former industrial halls in Lokstadt. The latter are located in the center of the former “workers' town” of Winterthur, which was shaped by heavy industry and mechanical production processes for more than 100 years . Since the 1980s there has been a conversion to services, which has now largely been completed.
The project was launched in 2012. A self-portrayal of the museum concept states that it was "designed as a new type of museum: as a place of history and stories, of encounter, of exchange." In addition to the actual exhibition, other artistic events such as readings, concerts and networking meetings through to open space and discotheque evenings are offered.
The focus of the exhibition concept is on people. It is only part of the work process, but at the same time it is the driving force behind innovations and changes and, as a work factor, is exposed to this work environment. This area of tension is to be made available in the museum as a “meeting place, culture and education location for a broad public”. The space, which has remained largely unchanged, serves as a former site of large, man-made machines for the exhibition, at the same time as a living shell of the working world of many workers, documenting their everyday reality.
history
In 2006 the city of Winterthur formulated the order for a new conception of the museum together with the approval of subsidies for four years to the historical association. This was created as part of a master's thesis . After a hearing with museum experts took place in 2009 and the concept was approved by the city, the board of the HVW decided on a theme museum.
The sponsoring association “ museumreate” was founded in 2012 and developed a content and operating concept. A project study was carried out under the name «create museum. A place of experience and memory is created », which leads to the invitation to tender for an ideas competition. Possible locations and partners were sought. In 2015, the creation of the museum was first mentioned in the city of Winterthur's cultural mission statement and funds from the lottery fund were made available. The owner of Lokstadt Winterthur, Implenia , made the hall available. The sponsoring association for founding the company was dissolved again. The exhibition course was opened in May 2018.
The museum does not yet have its own building, but appears as a "pop-up museum" in various locations. In May 2018 an exhibition ("Zeit.Zeugen.Arbeit. An exhibition course") was opened for the first time in the Rapide hall, a former assembly hall of the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Factory (SLM). In 2019/20 it will be a guest with the exhibition One, Two, Three, 4.0 in the neighboring, former turning shop in the Lokstadt Halle Draisine, Zürcher Strasse 39/41 in Winterthur.