Museum of Labor

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Museum of Labor
Museum of Labor in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord 1.jpg
Data
place Wiesendamm 3, Hamburg-Barmbek
Art
Industrial, technical and social history
opening January 5, 1997
operator
Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation
management
Rita Müller (Scientific Director),
Hans-Jörg Czech (Sole Director of the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation)
Website
Factory site of the New York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Fabrik before 1914

The Museum of Labor in Hamburg - Barmbek has made the change in life and work its main theme over the past 150 years. In the exhibitions, topics such as the effects of industrialization and the changes it triggered in social, cultural and economic areas are presented. The museum is an anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Culture (ERIH).

history

Plans for such a museum had existed since the late 1970s and a corresponding museum association was founded in 1980. The founding association is now called "Friends of the Museum of Labor eV" and is a museum sponsoring association with 1300 members (2018). He supports the museum with funds and a lot of voluntary work in the printing workshop and in the museum shop and is the editor of the magazine "mitarbeit" and the "Infobriefs". A museum tour is organized once a year. In 1982 the site of the former factory of the New York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Compagnie in Barmbek, built in 1871, was rented. With temporary exhibitions and growing museum workshops, a concept has been developed over the course of 10 years. The founders wanted to tell a different story - not that of the rulers, the "upper classes", but a story of the majority of the population, a story "from below - for below". However, the renovation did not begin until 1992. With the boiler house, the first building of the Museum of Labor was inaugurated in 1994. Further redesigns followed so that the permanent exhibition in the main building could be opened on January 5, 1997.

The area on which the Museum of Labor is located today has had an eventful history. The former industrial ensemble is not only a monument to Barmbek's identity as a working-class district. It also opens up a different perspective on the Hanseatic city, which is often one-sidedly perceived as a trading metropolis.

The library in the museum has books on everyday and social history in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of work and workers in Hamburg, technology and economics as well as gender history.

On January 1, 2008, the museum became sponsored by the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation .

Directors of the museum

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition

In addition to a collection on the company history of the New York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Compagnie, everyday changes are presented under the title "Everyday life in the industrial age" using objects and documents. An example of a place of work is presented with an original list of the former metal goods factory Carl Wild , which produced enamelled pins, medals and badges. Another department exhibits the development of typical Hanseatic offices from the time of overseas trade in the 19th century to the 1950s with changing office machines.

The exhibition area "ABC of Work - Diversity of Life Innovations" uses work products, clothing, tools, machines, oral and written memories and photographs to convey a wide variety of aspects of the history of work in Hamburg since industrialization. With a large number of exhibits and work biographies from the house's collection, the exhibition area shows facets of craft and industrial work, the service industry, trade and social professions. The exhibition takes stock of technical innovations and social conflicts and at the same time reflects the museum's collection strategies with insights into the inventory database. In a “sitting forum”, visitors to the exhibition have the opportunity to listen to about 20 life stories of workers, employees, etc. from various professions and sectors with telephone receivers and to look at exhibits from this life; u. a .: Boilermaker, master locksmith, carpenter, university professor, educator, subway driver, parcel deliverer, master hairdresser, electrical fitter, engineer, universal grinder, dressmaker, works council, vocational school teacher, master confectioner, housewife, textile merchant, druggist, gardener and men's tailor.

The printing workshop takes up a significant part of the exhibition. In addition to the exhibited historical presses, machines and rotations for documenting the technical development in the graphic arts industry, there are also some functional machines in operation, on which visitors can be active themselves, from manual typesetting to machine typesetting, via the high-speed press to the Heidelberg cylinder machine .

On April 4, 2000, the cutting wheel of the shield tunneling machine ( weighing 380 tons, 14.2 m diameter) TRUDE ( T ief R under U nter D he E lbe) was installed in the courtyard of the museum , which was used for the construction of the new Elbe tunnel .

The gatehouse

Today the gatehouse from 1910 at the entrance to the former factory premises is the last unrenovated building in the ensemble. The planned content-related modernization of the Museum of Labor begins with the repair of the gatehouse, for which the federal government approved 4.2 million euros. The new gastronomy will move in here in 2019. In addition, museum educational rooms, a robot workshop and a competence lab are planned, where new communication formats are to be tried out, announced Rita Müller.

Special exhibitions

(excerpts)

  • 2006/07 Give rubber! Rubber industry and Hamburg
  • From 2010 to 2011, the exhibition Advertising Worlds Made in Hamburg - 100 Years of Reemtsma was on view in the museum .
  • On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Old Elbe Tunnel in Hamburg, the museum showed in the exhibition Tunnels. Hamburg and its underworld, the importance and development of the city's tunnels.
  • 2013/2014: Photo exhibition migrant workers .
  • November 5, 2015 to April 3, 2016: Forced labor. The Germans, the forced laborers and the war.
  • September 6, 2017 to March 4, 2018: The capital of Karl Marx , the printing of the first volume in Hamburg 150 years ago

  • Tailoring wheel TRUDE

  • crane

  • Pier on the Osterbek Canal

  • Plastic copy of the Karl Marx Monument from Chemnitz in front of the Museum of Labor in Hamburg for the "Capital" exhibition

  • Museum courtyard with boiler house

Port museum branch

Port branch of the Museum of Labor in Shed 50
Steam bar vacuum cleaner "Sauger IV" Hafenmuseum am Schuppen 50

→ Main article : Harbor Museum

A branch is the harbor museum around Kaischuppen 50A on Bremer Kai on Kleiner Grasbrook . In the Hansahafen, it communicates the development of the Port of Hamburg with access to current port events. Around the historic Kaischuppen 50A, the change from general cargo to container handling becomes tangible at this authentic location, the last remaining Kaizungen ensemble. Experts from the port - from Ewerführer to Tallymann - demonstrate properly preserved systems and devices in operation. They demonstrate handling processes, explain how it works and provide information about working life in the port.

In the outdoor area you can also see operational historical quay cranes and van carriers from the early days of container handling in the 1970s. Visitors can access the large floating objects via a pontoon, including the floating steam crane "Saatsee" (manufactured from 1917-1920 by Schiffs- und Maschinenbau AG Mannheim ), the Schutendampfsauger "Sauger IV" (built in 1909 by the Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft ) and the " Hamburger Kastenschute ”from 1913.

As an eventful place of learning, the port museum also offers programs for school classes and regular “port explorations for children”. Guided extra tours on key topics also open up expert access to port change, to the relationships between city and port or to the world of goods from overseas from the waterfront.

Speicherstadtmuseum branch office

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Another branch is the Speicherstadt Museum , which documents the history of construction and use of the historic Speicherstadt. The Speicherstadtmuseum emerged from the exhibition “Speicherstadt - Architectural Monument and Workplace for 100 Years”, which the Museum der Arbeit opened in 1988 on the occasion of the centenary of the Speicherstadt on two warehouse floors of the Eichholtz & Cons. showed at St. Annenufer 2. In 1995 this exhibition was reopened at the same location as a privately operated branch of the Museum of Work and has been continuously expanded and updated since then.

The focus of the permanent exhibition is on the typical goods and the activities of the local people , as the warehouse keepers in the Port of Hamburg still call themselves traditionally, who store goods for third parties - trading houses or processing companies. Using original equipment and historical photos that illustrate the individual work steps, it is shown how high-quality imported goods such as coffee , tea , cocoa , rubber or tobacco used to be stacked, weighed, sampled and sorted on the warehouse floors . Another central topic is the building history of the Speicherstadt. The museum also presents the history of the Hamburg coffee trade.

Special public events such as tea tastings or crime readings as well as public tours through the Speicherstadt, which also include a tour of the permanent exhibition, take place regularly in the Speicherstadt Museum. During the school holidays, “discovery tours” are also offered, which are aimed specifically at children aged 6 to 12 accompanied by an adult.

Events

In addition to guided tours, various events are organized at the museum. In courses and workshops, visitors can use exhibits (e.g. a printing press) themselves and produce things with them. For this purpose, exhibits were recreated or collected several times. From April to October there is a monthly cultural flea market on the museum courtyard.

Publications

  • 2006/07 for the special exhibition: Jürgen Ellermeyer: Gib Gummi! - Rubber industry and Hamburg , Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-86108-876-9
  • 2010: for the exhibition: Advertising Worlds Made in Hamburg - 100 Years Reemtsma , ISBN 978-3-88506-469-5
  • 2013: for the permanent exhibition: ABC of Work - Diversity of Life Innovations - Of coppersmiths and merchants, blue men and aprons, wage bags and strike funds ... Christina Bargholz Museum der Arbeit (Ed.) , ISBN 978-3-86218-027-1
  • 2017: Mitarbeit magazine '20 Years of the Museum of Work ', publisher: Friends of the Museum, Hamburg June 2017, No. 23/2017, ISSN 1865-0406
  • 2017/18 on the special exhibition: Rita Müller / Mario Bäumer: Das Kapital von Karl Marx, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-947178-02-5

See also

Web links

Commons : Museum of Work  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Ellermeyer: From the first plastics factory on the continent to a medium-sized niche company - On the history of the New York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Compagnie (NYH) in Gudrun Wolfschmidt (ed.): Knowledge from 400 years of chemistry in Hamburg, Hamburg 2016, p. 311 -367, ISSN 1610-6164
  2. ↑ Dr. Jürgen Bönig: When the work runs out ... - On the founding history of the Museum der Arbeit Hamburg, in cooperation, published by the Friends of the Museum der Arbeit eV, Hamburg 2010, pp. 14–15, ISSN 1865-0406
  3. ^ Ulrich Thiele: House of the working class, Hamburg History Live Magazin, issue 8 (2018), pp. 51-64.
  4. ↑ http://www.museum-der-arbeit.de/de/das-museum-der-arbeit/mitarbeiter/team.htm
  5. ↑ Rita Müller: The house is facing a paradigm shift, Die Welt from June 20, 2017
  6. ↑ FAZ of October 21, 2010, page 25: The scent of unlimited freedom

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