Museum of Pet Lore Julius Kühn

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The Museum of Pet Lore on the Steintor Campus

The museum for pet science "Julius Kühn" of the institute for agricultural and nutritional sciences of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg presents collections especially dedicated to pets , which originate in the former pet garden of the agricultural institute.

history

The pet garden around 1890, lower left the former horse stable, today's museum building

After Julius Kühn first introduced university agriculture studies in Germany in Halle in 1863 , he built a pet garden from 1865 to 1888 to present as many breeds of pets as possible and their related species. Julius Kühn saw in him the "... first public place for systematic animal-breeding research ...".

The pet garden included stables for cattle , horses , donkeys , pigs , sheep , goats , dogs , rabbits , geese , ducks and chickens , the associated farm buildings , but also an animal hospital , an operating theater and a veterinary clinic . The pet garden existed until 1969. In its over one hundred year history, more than 1000 animals were kept at the same time for demonstration purposes and breeding experiments.

When the animals were no longer suitable for teaching and research purposes, skeletal , skull , dermoplastic and alcohol preparations, wool samples and skins were obtained from the most valuable representatives for the pet collection.

A small part of the collection has been processed into a museum and has been presented in the Museum of Pet Lore since 1988.

exhibition

Museum exhibition rooms

The exhibition rooms of the museum are located in the listed horse stable of the Agricultural Institute's pet garden , built in 1884; an elongated half - timbered building , which today is part of the Steintor-Campus, which was inaugurated in 2015, located between Ludwig-Wucherer-Straße, Emil-Abderhalden-Straße and Adam-Kuckhoff-Straße.

The stable is, next to the small clinker building of the farmed fish aquarium, the last structural evidence of the former pet garden. The exhibits are presented here in five departments on an exhibition area of ​​around 300 square meters.

The entrance area is dedicated to the namesake and founder of the pet garden and his collections, Julius Kühn, using display boards and photos. As a special feature, a life-size anatomical teaching model of a horse from the manufacture of the French anatomist Louis Thomas Auzoux (1797–1880) is exhibited in the entrance area .

The following four consecutive rooms are dedicated to individual breeds of domestic animals: sheep and goats, cattle, horses, pigs and dogs.

In addition to dermoplastics and numerous historical photographs of the domestic animals formerly kept here - mainly old and now often extinct land races - skeletons and skulls in particular are presented.

Collections

Paper mache model of the Auzoux horse

There is an extensive stock of approx. 7000 pet skeletons, skulls and dermoplastics, so u. a. horses and donkeys (100 specimens), cattle (600 skulls alone), sheep (over 2000 specimens) and pigs (over 600 skulls alone).

The institute also has one of the three largest German archaeozoological comparative collections and an extensive wool collection.

The photo archive with an estimated total number of 100,000 copies (photos, glass positive slides, negatives on glass or film) includes a. also over 6000 historical glass negative plates from the time between 1900 and 1930 of scientifically valuable animals from the pet garden.

Since January 2012, two parts of the collection - the paper mache model of Auzoux's horse and Julius Kühn's historic photo glass plates - have been listed as nationally valuable cultural assets.

This collection, which is unique in the world, is housed in two parts of the building, above the exhibition rooms and in the central store for natural science collections (CNS) at Domplatz 4.

use

The museum, as well as the stored collections, are used today in particular by students in the context of lectures and guests of the university as well as by groups of pupils in addition to biology lessons. The museum is open to the public on Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Guided tours are available upon reservation.

literature

  • Joachim Wussow: The Julius Kühn Museum . In: Speler, Ralf-Torsten (Ed.): 300 years of the University of Halle 1694–1994. Treasures from the collections and cabinets . Halle 1994, ISBN 3-929330-37-7 , pp. 303-308.
  • Renate Schafberg / Frank Steinheimer: The pet collection at the CNS . In: The academic collections and museums of the MLU Halle-Wittenberg . Halle 2013, ISBN 978-3-86829-597-9 , pp. 97–99.

Web links

Commons : Museum für Petkunde Julius Kühn (Halle)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coordination office for scientific university collections in Germany: Pet-related collection at the CNS

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 20.8 "  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 27.3"  E