Museum in Gliwice

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Villa Caro

The museum in Gliwice is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in Upper Silesia .

history

Upper Silesian Museum Gliwice

The museum in Gliwice was founded on March 22, 1905 in the hotel “Deutsches Haus” on Gleiwitzer Ring and was called from 1905 to 1933 “Oberschlesisches Museum in Gleiwitz”. The museum concentrated on collections on the past and present of Upper Silesia. The Oberschlesisches Museum later moved into the New School building at Friedrichstrasse 1a.

In the 1920s the Oberschlesisches Museum had the following departments and collections:

  • Fine arts department: paintings by old and new (mainly Upper Silesian) masters, sculptures. Changing art exhibitions.
  • Department of Geology and Mineralogy: fossils from different periods of the earth, minerals from different parts of the world
  • Industry and handicraft department: models of old blast furnaces, samples of Upper Silesian industrial products, antiquities of the locksmith, carpentry, watchmaker, coppersmith and model carver handicrafts , careers from various branches of industry
  • Arts and Crafts Department: Glasses, porcelain, Upper Silesian ceramics, Gliwice cast iron, pewter tools, miniatures, ecclesiastical cabaret, East Asian arts and crafts
  • Natural history department: The local fauna (birds, butterflies, fish) in hundreds of specimens
  • Folklore Department: Upper Silesian antiquities (furniture, costumes, equipment, tools, clocks, embroidery), furnished farmhouse parlor from 1794
  • Ethnology department: equipment and weapons of the indigenous peoples of German colonies, prehistoric finds from Upper Silesia, an Egyptian burial chamber with a mummy and three coffins
  • Arms department: cut and firearms from different times and countries

For the 25th anniversary of the Upper Silesian Museum, it was regrouped and repositioned.

Realignment

In the spring of 1934 the Gleiwitz Museum moved to the Villa Caro in Niederwallstrasse.

In 1945 the ownership of the museum was taken over by the Polish state. The museum became a city museum, the topic limited to the city of Gliwice. In 1959 the castle became part of the museum. Today the museum has 4 locations, the main office is in the Villa Caro .

Departments

Exhibits

In 1905 the museum possessed 1,585 exhibits, 1915 16,538 exhibits, 1935 22,458 exhibits, 1945 18,000 exhibits, 1960 23,330 exhibits, 1980 65,606 exhibits and 2002 93,387 exhibits.

One of the outstanding exhibits is the “Portrait of a Boy”, 1586, by Anton Möller (the “Painter of Danzig”), 1563–1611. The majority of his works can be found in museums, churches or similar in the cities of Thorn and Gdansk.

In 1930 the Oberschlesisches Museum in Gleiwitz owned, among other things:

  • An incomplete mammoth skeleton excavated in Upper Silesia.
  • A collection of insects with hundreds of local and foreign butterflies and beetles.
  • A mineral collection with exhibits in their natural form and in connection with other rocks.
  • A home collection with, for example, a model of a scrap wood church , relics from the city of Gleiwitz and a weaving art collection with Upper Silesian costumes.
  • A collection of birds and small animals.
  • An ethnological section with an Egyptian burial chamber with an approximately 4000 year old mummy.
  • A local history and folklore section with a model of medieval Gleiwitz. *
  • An Upper Silesian farmhouse parlor from 1794.

The researcher and 2nd museum director Grundey contributed with his work to one of the largest collections in the museum.

literature

  • Catalog of the Oberschlesisches Museum zu Gleiwitz , Gleiwitz 1915 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gleiwitz yearbook 1927
  2. ↑ a b magazine "Oberschlesien im Bild": Issue 26, 1930
  3. ^ Journal "Oberschlesien im Bild": Issue 5, 1934
  4. ^ Museum in Gliwice
  5. ^ Journal "Oberschlesien im Bild": Issue 6, 1936