Museum of Folk Culture (Spittal an der Drau)
The Museum for Folk Culture in Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia is a museum for folklore in Upper Carinthia . The fourth largest folklore museum in Austria , founded in 1958, shows around 20,000 exhibits - exclusively donations from the population - and is supported by the association "Bezirksheimatmuseum Spittal / Drau eV". The objects of the multi-award-winning house, grouped in 47 self-contained subject areas, give a well-founded picture of the folk-cultural life in the consistently high alpine landscape, presented on the upper floors and attic with open roof truss in the Renaissance ambience of Porcia Castle in the city center of Spittal.
history
The museum was established in 1958 as the “District Home Museum Spittal an der Drau” through the initiative of the elementary school teacher at the time, Helmut Prasch from Apriach near Heiligenblut in Carinthia, with a focus on “The life and work of farmers in the Alpine region”. The municipality of Spittal left the two top floors of Porcia Castle to the association. From 1968 there were extensions to include local branches with special collections. Until 1987 the museum was run and managed exclusively on a voluntary basis. Since 1987, under the first full-time director Hartmut Prasch, historical and didactic events have been offered. The most outstanding museum educational project is the MUKI (Museum for Children), for which the museum received an award in 1989. In 1991 the name was changed to "Museum for Folk Culture". 1993 was renovated and redesigned. The basic idea of the museum is to focus on the objects donated by the population, "as authentic three-dimensional witnesses of the skill, way of working and living as well as the intellectual attitude of the people", which are shown largely unglazed. Over the years, the museum has become one of the largest folklore museums in the Alpine region. The museum association was and is the impetus for the preservation of Upper Carinthian cultural assets such as the pillory in front of the castle, the painting tree on Neuer Platz or the large mill wheel at the western entrance and publisher of many publications on Upper Carinthian folk culture and museum didactics.
Concept of the museum
The museum attaches great importance to actively exploring the collections. The room texts are written in four languages, German, English, Italian and Slovenian. One focus is the use of modern information and media technology. Multimedia terminals provide property information, basic information about the “Upper Carinthia natural area”, the ORF production “Almleben im Jahreslauf” and the film “Wasser-Kraft” can be seen in the large-screen cinema. A "3D flight simulation cinema" allows self-navigating flights through the valleys of Upper Carinthia. "Listening islands" offer sound experiences tailored to the respective topic. Offers for different target groups have been offered since 1988. There are student programs, the "MUKI - Museum for Children" or the family program "MMM - Museum makes you lively"
First floor of the museum
On the first floor of the museum on the 2nd floor of Porcia Castle, the following topics can be seen in addition to the entrance area: popular belief, custom, toys, old school, teaching aids room, chests and boxes, Karl Truppe Gallery, minerals, gold mining, arsenic mining, garnet mining, forest glass production, cooper , Töpfer and Hafner, Gottschee, mountaineering, 3-flight simulation cinema and Fürstenzimmer.
Second museum floor
The following areas are exhibited on the second floor of the museum under an open roof structure: Lurnfelder Rauchkuchl, Oberkärntner Bauernstube, Bürgerstube, beehive, threshing equipment, stick mill, drying hut, Göpel, mowing and haying, fields - harrowing - sowing, squeezing - pressing - burning, smoothing - tanner, Almhütte - cheese dairy, inn, grocer, market stall, wax maker - gingerbread, dyeing - printing - fulling, washing, Brechelhütte, spinning - weaving - rope twisting, carpenter - fountain maker - clapboard, locksmith - farrier and kitsmith , wagner - macher , driving experience , oil press , Hammer smiths, basket weavers, Mölltaler Stube and the large-screen cinema.
Branch offices
The branches of the museum are based on the cultural and economic history of the respective location.
- The first branch of the Bezirksheimatmuseum e. V. was the arsenic mining show hut set up in 1973 together with the Carinthian mountain rescue service in the Pöllatal , a high side valley of the Liesertal in the Hohe Tauern .
- The Almwirtschaftsmuseum in the Nockberge National Park was built in 1990 in cooperation with the Nockberge National Park on the Zechner Alm. In an alpine hut, furnished with equipment from 1850 to 1900 and in a former cattle barn, the topics of grass management , livestock farming , dairy farming and everyday farming are shown in detail .
- In the Gerngroß City Center on Neuer Platz, approx. 100 m from the entrance to the castle, there has been the Railway Adventure World since 2003 , Austria's largest model railway at 300 square meters. Historic and modern train sets with 85 locomotives and 350 wagons run on over 600 m of track. Particularly beautiful sections of the Tauern Railway between Spittal and Mallnitz have been recreated true to the original. A historical photo documentation of the construction of the Tauern Railway around 1900 can be seen in the background.
- Another branch was the 1st Carinthian Fishery Museum in the western bay of Lake Millstatt in Seeboden . The fishing museum, housed in a typical Carinthian smoke house from 1638, was established in 1979 and handed over to the Seeboden community in early 2008.
Awards
- 1999 Austrian Museum Prize for the Upper Carinthian Museum Puzzle
literature
- Hartmut Prasch : Museum Primer. The common thread through the Museum of Folk Culture. Spittal an der Drau. Porcia Castle. , Spittal an der Drau, 2005, ISBN 3-900835-20-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Museum für Volkskultur: Museum für Volkskultur , accessed on August 6, 2010
- ↑ Hartmut Prasch, Museum Primer , p. 10
Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ' N , 13 ° 30' E