Museum of the municipal collections in the armory

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Wittenberg - Museum in the armory

The museum of the municipal collections in the armory is an interdisciplinary exhibition building in Wittenberg , which presents objects from archeology and city history as well as natural and ethnology. The director of the museum is Andreas Wurda.

The armory

The former armory in Juristenstraße 16a, located on Arsenalplatz, is a listed building in the old town of Wittenberg. The registration number as a Wittenberg monument is 094 35933. The house was built in 1855 as a shed (artillery car hall) and has served both military and civilian purposes ever since. In 2016/17 a general renovation and the restoration of the historic facade facing Arsenalplatz took place.

exhibition

From 2015 to 2018, modern exhibition rooms with a total of more than 1500 square meters were built in several stages on three floors in the historic armory. The museum was opened on December 21, 2018 with lectures by Reiner Haseloff , Torsten Zugehre and Nils Seethaler .

The “crown jewels” of the city

The first floor was opened in March 2015: eighteen “crown jewels” of the city, including three objects from Julius Riemer's collection, are exhibited there on an area of ​​three hundred square meters . Exhibits on the city's history are z. B. a "giant rib" from the reliquary collection of Frederick the Wise and the mayor's chain of office. At the center of the exhibition is a model of the city from around 1870, which covers almost 20 square meters of floor space. This part of the permanent exhibition serves as an introduction and as a reference to the permanent exhibitions in the same building on the floors above.

City history

On the first floor of the armory, 406 exhibits on the history of the city of Wittenberg are shown on more than 500 square meters. The exhibition "Wittenberg in the course of the centuries" deals with the prehistory in the area of ​​today's city, the Middle Ages and the early modern times as well as the 19th and 20th centuries. Finally, possible developments in the future of the city are reflected on. The exhibition thematically complements the historical city information in the town hall and continues this exhibition chronologically up to the present day.

Julius Riemer's natural history and ethnological collection

On the upper floor there is a permanent exhibition with objects from the Riemer collection. The exhibition Riemer's World presents 1500 objects on natural history and ethnology on over 500 square meters of exhibition space and puts the biography of the collector Julius Riemer at the center of the presentation. Over several years of preparation, this exhibition of the Wittenberg municipal collections was again drawn up in cooperation with the Friends of the Julius Riemer Collection. It is the only permanent ethnological exhibition in Saxony-Anhalt that presents objects from several continents in a comparative way.

Special exhibitions

On the ground floor of the armory there is a special exhibition area of ​​150 square meters. Before the permanent exhibitions were completed, a series of thematically preparatory special exhibitions were shown. The two exhibitions “Jews in Lutherstadt Wittenberg im III. Reich ”(2012/2013) and“ Lucas Cranach the Younger - Citizen of Wittenberg, Councilor and Businessman ”(2015/16). The ethnological area includes the two exhibitions “ The Discovery of the Individual - Sculptures of the West African Lobi from the Rainer Greschik Collection ” (2016/17) and the exhibition “ Objects of Adoration - Material Evidence of Faith, Reverence and Remembrance ” conceived at the end of the Luther year in the cultures of mankind ”(2017/18). At the intersection of art history, city history and ethnology, the special exhibition "Else Hertzer - the war folder" (2019) u. a. settled with portraits of members of the Free India Legion ; The exhibition “Witnesses to the History of the Earth - Fossils and Rocks” (2020) falls into the field of natural history.

literature

  • Karina Blüthgen: Finissage in the armory: things have been revered for as long as there have been people. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of April 22, 2018.
  • Ronny Kabus: Jews of Lutherstadt Wittenberg in the III. Rich. 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/wittenberg/neues-stadtmuseum-umzug-laesst-weiter-auf-sich-warten-26724356
  2. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/wittenberg/zeughaus-in-wittenberg-museum-soll-weiter-wachsen-24341910
  3. ↑ https://www.myheimat.de/lutherstadt-wittenberg/kultur/ein-weiterer-anziehungspunkt-der-stadt-wittenberg-d2977364.html (accessed on June 2, 2019)
  4. ↑ https://www.wittenbergersonntag.de/artikel/12858 (accessed on June 2, 2019)
  5. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/wittenberg/stadtmuseum-in-wittenberg-julius-riemers--welt-ist-eroeffnet-31788730
  6. ↑ https://www.wittenbergersonntag.de/artikel/12858/lange-museumsnacht-im-zeughaus
  7. ↑ https://www.wittenberg.de/pics/medien/1_1413463723/Drehbuch-Exponate_OG.pdf
  8. ↑ https://www.wittenbergersonntag.de/artikel/12858/lange-museumsnacht-im-zeughaus
  9. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/wittenberg/stadtmuseum-im-zeughaus-bald-wird-eroeffnet--31710998
  10. ↑ https://www.wittenberg.de/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=58&topmenu=3&b_version=1
  11. ↑ https://www.mvnb.de/fileadmin/data/public/verband/bilder/Geschaeftsstelle/Wanderausstellungsboerse/Juden_in_der_Lutherstadt.pdf
  12. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/wittenberg/zeughaus-in-wittenberg-der-buerger-cranach-rueckt-in-den-fokus-23307832
  13. ↑ Rainer Greschik / Nils Seethaler (Preface): Lobi. West African sculptures from the Greschik collection. Published on the occasion of the exhibition “The Discovery of the Individual” in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 2016
  14. ↑ Opening of the special exhibition , accessed on December 22, 2018.
  15. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/wittenberg/finissage-im-zeughaus-seit-es-menschen-gibt--haben-dinge-verehrt-30049570?view=fragmentPreview

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