Museum of European Folk Costumes

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Museum of European Folk Costumes
Data
place Beeck , Germany
Art
museum
opening January 14, 2001
operator
Heimatverein Wegberg-Beeck eV
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-755611

The Museum for European Folk Costumes , also known as the Beecker Trachtenmuseum , mainly shows festive costumes from various European countries. The museum is located at Kirchplatz 7 in Beeck near Wegberg ( Heinsberg district ).

history

The Wegberg-Beeck Heimatverein, which had been running the Beecker flax museum in the village since 1982 , took over the Kircher couple's private collection of folk costumes in the 1990s and founded their own museum for this purpose. The city of Wegberg bought the collection and made it available on permanent loan . The museum was housed in the former mayor's office, a listed building on Beeck's market square. The house was initially restored by the association itself between 1996 and 2001. The museum was opened on January 14, 2001. The exhibition was redesigned in 2015, it is now presented as a permanent exhibition on two floors and with additional changing special exhibitions on the entire ground floor.

Special exhibitions

From March 22, 2015 to March 6, 2016, the skyward special exhibition Textile Church Treasures in Hidden took place on the top floor . On display were paraments - church vestments, textiles and exhibits from the churches and chapels of the Catholic parish of St. Martin Wegberg. The exhibition was part of the German-Dutch museum project heavenward - hemelwaarts. Religious life on the Rhine and Maas - het religieuze leven an rijn en maas , which was organized by around 50 museums and institutions in the Lower Rhine area and in the province of Limburg .

From March to November 2017 the house showed the exhibition "On the way - Leaving home, finding a new home. Stories from people from Wegberg ". The 16-page publication of the same name is available in the museum.

From April 15, 2018 to November 25, 2018, the two special exhibition rooms on the ground floor and the two upper floors will host the house's largest ever changing exhibition - European jewelry cultures - with over 1,000 pieces of antique jewelry from 30 countries. All objects shown here will be made available to the public for the first time.

Loans and pieces from numerous private collections give a comprehensive insight into the most diverse topics of traditional European jewelry in the countryside. The extensive show is complemented by significant comparative pieces from outside Europe.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://tonia.de/ausflugsziel-41-Museum-fuer-europaeische-Volkstrachten.htm
  2. ↑ Ethnologist Irene Steiner, 44 pp., 96 colored images, publication accompanying the exhibition


Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 26.2 ″  E