Museum St. Johann in Tirol
The Museum St. Johann in Tirol presents selected topics on the history of St. Johann in Tirol , Austria , an exhibition focus on the Kaiser Mountains and special exhibitions with contemporary art.
history
The Museum St. Johann in Tirol was founded in 1969 by a number of committed local researchers from St. Johann and initially housed in a room of the old municipal office. This building from 1724, the " Riester'sche Priesterhaus ", was a reformatory for priests with an improper way of life in the 18th century . In 1994 the house was completely restored and since then it has housed the museum and gallery of the market town of St. Johann in Tirol . In 1997, the St. Johann in Tirol Museum and Culture Association was founded, which has since taken care of the museum, the gallery and the archive on behalf of the municipality of St. Johann in Tirol. The association brings regional identity to life with a wide range of cultural and historical features and the history of St. Johann and the Leukental.
2004 was an underground connection to the former farm buildings of the priest house, the so-called "wash Häusl", to be built. Today, a glass cube with a spiral staircase leads to the underground connecting room. This newly developed area contains the exhibition focus "rock rich - myth and experience of the Kaiser Mountains".
Exhibits
The following topics are presented on the ground floor of the "Riester'schen Priest's House": The beginnings of tourism, school history, shooters and freedom fighters, copper and silver mining, the geology of the municipality, St. Johann as the summer residence of the bishops of Chiemsee , baroque and sights, the Composer Edmund Angerer , the legendary wife Emma in Europe , nativity scenes and saints from the 19th century, historical costumes from the Leukental as well as views of the town, landscapes and nostalgia from St. Johann. The focus of the exhibition: "Felsreich - Mythos and Erlebnis Kaisergebirge" offers an overview of the alpine development of the Kaisergebirge as well as exhibits on fauna and flora, historical mountaineering equipment, pictures and films about mountaineering then and now as well as special attractions such as: prehistoric finds from the Tischofer cave with the life-size model of a cave bear , the terrarium with the legendary green earthworms "Allolobophora smaragdina", which can be observed live in summer, the rare scorpion from the Kaiser Mountains , the lifelike model of the Kaiser Mountains and the "mountain tour in the museum" to the Babenstuber- Hut with a view of the mountain model as if from the stratosphere . Information on the exhibits can be called up in German, English and Italian via QR codes on an audio tour with a smartphone .
Special exhibitions
In addition to the permanent exhibition and the exhibition focus on "Felsenreich - Myth and Experience Kaisergebirge", the museum offers special exhibitions of contemporary art in the gallery on the upper floor of the priest's house. Works by Andreas Kuhnlein , Markus Prachensky , Franz Lettner , Ahmet Oran , Helmut Rehm , Peter Thaler , Friedrich Plahl, Anne Strobl, Siegfried Goldberger, Brigitte Pamperl, Wolfgang Capellari, Hans Salcher and many others have already been shown.
Web links
supporting documents
- ^ Museum St. Johann in Tirol. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Kitzanzeiger: Special exhibition of the Kunstverein Kitz Art. Kitzbühler Anzeiger, October 18, 2019, accessed on December 5, 2019 .
- ^ Museum St. Johann in Tirol: Start. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .