Garden Culture Museum
The non-governmental museum of garden culture in the Bavarian-Swabian city of Illertissen is currently (2014) almost 10,000 exhibits on the history of garden culture, the largest museum of its kind in Germany.
Initiators, sponsors, operators and financing
The agency and operator is the “Garden Culture Foundation” registered in Neu-Ulm. The board of the foundation is made up of the three initiators of the museum: Illertissen perennial gardener Dieter Gaißmayer (chairman), chemist Reinhard Hemmer and landscape architect Wolfgang Hundbiss (exhibition curator).
The cost of building the museum amounted to a good 700,000 euros, which was raised from funds from several foundations, public grants and other sources.
Location and structure
The museum, which opened at the end of February 2013, is located on an urban site right next to the Gaissmayer perennial nursery, about 3.5 kilometers northeast of the city center, near the airfield.
The museum area comprises a building and an open space. The building is a 60-meter-long, 900-square-meter T-shaped new building that, in addition to the actual exhibition space, includes a glass house, a museum shop, a library with 1,600 garden books, some of which are over 100 years old and modern, and specialist magazines, a café and a training room for groups having.
The “First Literary Apiary” (ErLiBi), a public bookcase, is located in a converted old apiary in the museum's car park (a reference also to the Illertissen apiary) . There is also a battery charging and changing station for electric bikes from the movelo rental network. A connection with public transport is currently (2014) not available.
There is an entrance fee to visit the museum, which is open from Friday to Sunday.
concept
The museum concept consists of several components:
- Garden arsenal : In the permanent exhibition in the museum building, equipment from all areas of horticulture from the last three centuries is shown from all over Europe. Among them, some are now strange new equipment, such as an invented by Lucien Hippolyte Bernel-Bourette 1905 Pagoscope for prediction of night frosts. In addition, working techniques in horticulture from earlier times are explained and the history of regional garden culture is discussed. The permanent show is supplemented by temporary special exhibitions.
- Variety arsenal : In the 1.5 hectare open area, the cultivation of old, often little-known useful and ornamental plant species and varieties is presented in several departments, so-called cabinets. The focus is on perennials , but there is also a form fruit cabinet that is unique in Germany , as well as a rose garden. The possibilities of their use today, also under the aspect of biodiversity , are addressed.
- Garden knowledge / garden education : Together with the library's holdings, a range of events such as workshops, seminars, lectures, excursions and seasonal market days are intended as an accompanying program to carry on the old garden knowledge.
- Open gardens : These are collaborations with and visits to public gardens, parks and other horticultural sites of particular historical interest in the immediate and wider area.
- In cooperation with the Illertissen Integration Advisory Board, part of the museum's outdoor area will be used as an intercultural garden from 2014 .
Web links
- Garden Culture Museum
- Knowledge transfer, sensual pleasure and green network , heimatzeitung.de , April 11, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/neu-ulm/Ein-gruenes-Netzwerk-der-Gartenkultur-id24177211.html
- ↑ Kulturfonds Bayern pays 162,000 euros . Südwest Presse Online, September 10, 2012
- ↑ Garden tips
- ↑ The garden museum is now also a battery-powered filling station . Südwest Presse Online, May 13, 2013
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ New garden culture museum . taspo.de , April 2, 2013
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 25.7 " N , 10 ° 7 ′ 56.2" E