Museum am Rothenbaum

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Museum am Rothenbaum
Hamburg Rotherbaum DS205n2.jpg
Main facade to Rothenbaumchaussee (2015)
Data
place Hamburg
Art
opening 1879
Number of visitors (annually) 130,000 (2012)
management
Barbara Plankensteiner
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-059314

The Museum am Rothenbaum - Cultures and Arts of the World, in short: MARKK (until 2018 Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg ) was founded in Hamburg in 1879 and is now one of the largest ethnographic museums in Europe . It is located in the Rotherbaum district in the Eimsbüttel district . In their breadth and diversity, the exhibitions provide the basis for communication work in the museum, they provide the basis for cross-cultural research and give visitors access to a different understanding of the world.

history

Georg Christian Thilenius (1905)

The origins of the MARKK lay in a small ethnographic collection that was housed in the city ​​library in 1842 . This collection was later looked after by the “Natural History Association in Hamburg”, which in 1867 also published the museum guide “The Ethnographic or Ethnographic Collection following the Natural History Museum in Hamburg”. The management of the collection was entrusted to Adolph Oberdörffer and Ferdinand Worlée. This collection already consisted of 645 objects in 1868/69. In 1871 it was renamed "Culturhistorisches Museum" and moved to the premises of the Johanneum together with artefacts from the Natural History Museum . On April 29, 1879, the "Museum of Ethnology" was founded. The businessman Carl Wilhelm Lüders (1823–1896) headed the museum in the position of headmaster until 1896. On October 1, 1904, Georg Thilenius took over the administration of the “ Museum of Ethnology and Prehistory ” as a full-time director , until then director assistant Karl Hagen was in charge Shops.

Georg Thilenius was strongly committed to building his own museum. A site on Rothenbaum was planned as the location . Construction began in 1908 based on plans by the architect Albert Erbe and was completed in 1912. An extension in which work rooms were set up for the employees was completed in 1929. The plans had already provided for a doubling of the building area of ​​the building completed in 1912 at the beginning. The realization was prevented by the beginning of the Second World War .

The museum was responsible for the preservation of historical monuments and the collection of archaeological finds from Hamburg, which were given to the Museum of Hamburg History in 1957 .

The museum has been a public law foundation since 1999 .

In April 2017 a restructuring of the museum started with Barbara Plankensteiner as the new director. In June 2018 the culture committee of the Hamburg citizenship decided to rename the museum to "Museum am Rothenbaum - Cultures and Arts of the World", abbreviated to MARKK. The reason given by the museum to the Hamburger Abendblatt was: “The name 'Museum für Völkerkunde' is a barrier for many young groups of people, those interested in art and diaspora communities, critical intellectuals and artists from societies of origin or local diaspora communities because it is negative Evokes associations and emotions. "

The decision was preceded by discussions about both the new name and its abbreviation; the renaming is in connection with a content reorientation of the museum. It contains, for example, an examination of the origin of the exhibits and a possible return, such as two Korean guardian figures that were brought to Hamburg in hiding in 1983. According to Plankensteiner, further returns are not ruled out, albeit with a certain amount of work, since the objects belong to the city of Hamburg and not the museum and the former owner must reclaim them. Furthermore, the focus of the museum has shifted. Instead of describing peoples, it is about “the cultural anchoring of people, an understanding of connections, similarities and differences and the diversity of cultural and artistic achievements in the world”. This is a longer process, which also includes the processing of the role of the museum in connection with National Socialism and the establishment of a Racial Biology Institute at the time.

Two years after Plankensteiner started work, the Hamburg media described the museum as “more unpopular than ever”. The number of visitors decreased from 96,000 to 80,000 in 2018.

Figures on the building

Sculptor: Johann Michael Bossard , 1912

Celebrations and events

The Museum am Rothenbaum sees itself as a meeting place for people of all cultures. Annually recurring festivals such as the Latin America Festival, the People's Market, the Japanese Girls' Festival, the Mexican Day of the Dead invite you to celebrate together and should allow the rich traditions of other cultures to be experienced. In addition to the special exhibitions, there are theme days, lectures and guided tours.

Collections

The museum looks after the following collections:

Directors

Web links

Commons : Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 130,000 visitors came to the Museum of Ethnology. Hamburger Abendblatt, January 12, 2013.
  2. ^ History ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 30, 2012
  3. see communications from the local associations , group Hamburg-Altona, in: correspondence sheet of the German Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. , Vol. 29, Munich 1898, pp. 59-60, digitized .
  4. Mirjam Briel: The "Reitergrab" of Hamburg-Schnelsen. Findings and interpretation - a contribution to Saxony research . University of Hamburg, Hamburg 2011, p. 90, appendix (master's thesis).
  5. a b History of the Museum - MARKK. In: markk-hamburg.de. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  6. Joachim Mischke: Why the Ethnographic Museum is getting a new name. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. December 18, 2017, accessed May 9, 2019 .
  7. Museum returns grave guard figures to Korea. In: NDR. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  8. Jürgen Deppe: Provenance research: A moral obligation. In: NDR culture . October 17, 2018, accessed on August 9, 2020 (interview).
  9. Ulrike Knöfel: The monster. In: Der Spiegel 33/2020, August 8, 2020, pp. 110–112, here p. 112.
  10. Maike Bruhns: Bossard, Johann Michael. In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's lexicon; supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns , Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 59.

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 6 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 21 ″  E