Museum of Prehistory (s)

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Museum of Prehistory (s)

The Museum for Prehistory (s) in Zug is an archaeological museum in the canton of Zug in Switzerland . As the only cantonal museum in Zug, it belongs to the Office for Culture.

history

The cantonal museum for prehistory was founded in 1930 by a cantonal foundation to promote prehistoric research. The private collection of the businessman Michael Speck (1880–1969) served as the basis for the museum . It was located in the basement of the “Athene” canton school, directly opposite the current location. In 1946 the exhibition was relocated to lighter rooms in a former cigar factory. After the cantonal archeology was institutionalized in 1986, the Office of Culture repositioned the museum. As a museum for prehistory (s) it was reopened at Hofstrasse 15 at the end of 1997.

Exhibitions

The permanent exhibition uses archaeological finds , life-like reconstructions , detailed models and illustrations to present the history of the Canton of Zug from the Paleolithic to the early Middle Ages . The museum pays particular attention to conveying the content to children. In this way, the previous life situations are clearly conveyed to them using fictional life stories. Parts of the historical exhibition presentation from 1930 are on display in a separate area, the nostalgia corner. For the conception of the permanent exhibition as a story tour, the Museum für Urgeschichte (n) Zug received an honorable mention at the 1999 European Museum Prize . Annual special exhibitions on archaeological topics are held in an adjoining room.

From 1997 to 2016 an object was exhibited in the museum that had long been mistaken for bread from a Neolithic lakeside settlement . In the spring of 2014, the Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology, together with the local bakeries, launched a spelled- based “stake bread” from Zug to honor the find. Investigations carried out in the process initially suggested that the alleged bread was a round coprolite , the petrified droppings of a herbivore or omnivore. However, further investigations led to the result that it was a lump of peat. The C14 dating showed an age of 12,000 years, making the find older than previously assumed.

Web links

Commons : Museum of Prehistory (s)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Zugerische Archeology
  2. ↑ Archäologische Mitteilungen, 22 (1999)
  3. ↑ Angelika Franz: Alleged Stone Age biscuits turn out to be a pile of waste , Spiegel Online , June 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ Franziska Pfenninger and Ursina Zweifel: From findings to reconstruction and back again. Reconstructions of dome furnaces from the era of pile dwellings. In: Tugium . tape 31 , 2015, p. 89-96, esp. 89 f .

Coordinates: 47 ° 9 '36.2 "  N , 8 ° 30' 57.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-one thousand six hundred ninety-two  /  223,792