Bielefeld Natural History Museum
 Namu logo |
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| place | Bielefeld |
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Natural History Museum
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| opening | 1906 |
| management |
Isolde Wrazidlo
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-022015 |
The Bielefeld Natural History Museum - namu is a museum in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Bielefeld . Since 2003, it operates with the addition namu , the terms for Na ture, M ensch, U nvironment and for an interdisciplinary study of ecology and economy is. This name is also used as shorthand for the city Na turkunde- Mu interpreted seum. It is located in the listed Spiegelshof .
history
1889 is considered to be the founding year of the "Museum of the City of Bielefeld". In 1906 the municipal museum was opened with a historical and scientific department. After the historical collection was outsourced, there was an independent natural history museum in the Kaselowsky Villa on the current grounds of the Kunsthalle from 1930 . From 1946 to 1964 the museum had no place to stay. In 1964 the natural history department of the municipal museum was given temporary premises at Stapenhorststraße 1. The mineralogist and long-time museum director Martin Büchner as well as numerous members of the “Natural Science Association for Bielefeld and the Surrounding Area” played a key role in building the museum and in many temporary exhibitions. From 1977 there was another temporary space at Kreuzstrasse 38 (today Adenauerplatz 2), which is used as a disposition center for the planned new construction of an exhibition building - and today it is still used for administration and group events. The new building plans were dropped, instead the Natural History Museum moved into the historic “Spiegelschen Hof” in the immediate vicinity in 1986. In 1999 Isolde Wrazidlo took over the museum management.
In 2003 the museum got a new logo and the name namu . The following years were determined by changes in space and content. The Spiegelschen Hof was renovated and converted (2003 and 2004), the 100th anniversary celebration and the installation of the “Natural History Journey through Time with the StadtBahn” (2006), the opening of the new permanent exhibition “AusSterben - überLeben”, the award the sponsoring association with the environmental award of the city of Bielefeld as well as the conversion and renovation of the “branch of the namu”, the “green house” at the Sparrenburg (2007), and the expansion of the museum's educational offers to 800 offers (2010). In 2014, the permanent geological exhibition in the vaulted cellar was converted. The "Mineralienkeller", which dates back to 1986, has been completely replaced and now focuses on the regional geology of the Teutoburg Forest, the earth system, climate change and raw material problems from the perspective of geosciences. The staging as an abandoned mine led to the name "Geostollen"
In 1994 the “Friends of Bielefeld Natural History Museum” was founded.
Collections
The collections of the Bielefeld Natural History Museum are divided into three sub-areas:
The biological collection contains 260,000 objects.
- The collection of over 5,000 snails and mussels, with 657 different species represented, provides an overview of the species inventory on European coasts.
- The bird collection, which comprises around 500 specimens, contains almost all of the 250 or so breeding birds found in Germany, including rare species such as ortolan , wheatear and double snipe .
- The class of insects with beetles, butterflies, bugs, bees and wasps is represented in the collections with over 250,000 individual specimens. The focus is on the native insect world. These include around 50,000 butterflies from the Westphalian region . The most extensive, however, is the beetle collection with over 180,000 copies. In the Senne , the number of beetle species is estimated at 3,000. The insect collection of the Natural History Museum has been processed by the Westfälischer Entomologen eV association since 1965 .
The geoscientific collection contains over 50,000 objects that are assigned to different subject areas.
- The geological collection with 30,000 documents mainly contains rocks and fossils from East Westphalia-Lippe , in particular from outcrops from Triassic , Jurassic and Chalk in the immediate vicinity of Bielefeld. There is also a collection of Pleistocene debris from the area around Bielefeld and remains of large mammals from the terrace gravel of the Weser .
- In the mineralogical- petrographic collection with around 20,000 items, the mineral deposits in the East Westphalia region and the neighboring areas of Lower Saxony attracted particular attention.
The archaeological collection is estimated to contain around 100,000 artifacts.
- The namu possesses arrowheads, spearheads, Neolithic daggers, sickles, ax axes , chisels, stone axes with holes, scratches, blades, cores and knives.
- The focus of the archaeological collection of the Natural History Museum is on regional ancient, Middle and Neolithic finds from the areas of Steinhagen , Quelle-Blömkeberg, Sennestadt- Stukenbrock, Helpup , Stapelage and Borgholzhausen . There is also a collection of Stone Age artefacts from Hesse and the Baltic Sea region as well as from North America and recent material from Papua New Guinea .
Exhibitions
Permanent exhibition
The area of the permanent exhibition was made ready for museum by the Wuppertal office ! redesigned and opened in April 2007 under the title ausSterben - überLeben . The viewer first arrives in a room that is designed as an imaginary museum from the year 2525 about species extinction and nature conservation in the beginning of the 21st century. Other rooms explain issues of the present from this future perspective. For example, the influences of neozoa on native nature are illustrated by stuffed animals of these species in suitcases. The third area leads into the history of the earth and relates the fossils shown there to the threat of species extinction. A separate room is only dedicated to museum education. In it, children should find playful access to the topics of the museum.
Museum shop window in the city
For the museum's centenary in 2006, floor showcases were installed in the stations of the Bielefeld tram line under the title Damned Long ago ... in which the natural history of the Bielefeld area is illustrated by fossil finds, including woolly rhinoceros and giant salamanders . Large-format posters complement the exhibits; the installation of an original drill core from the time of the light rail construction in an underground station next to the passenger elevator illustrates 220 million years of Bielefeld geological history in the rock layers.
Special exhibitions
Various special exhibitions on individual topics complement the presentation of the museum's own pieces. In 2008, for example, the traveling exhibition Neobiota - Aliens in the front yard, conceived together with researchers from Bielefeld University, deepened the topic presented in the permanent exhibition. The special exhibition Loudly Colorful Birds - 100 Years of Poultry and “Westphalian Fighters” , opened in April 2011, documents the urban and cultural-historical aspects of the work of the city association of pedigree poultry breeders in Bielefeld, “the exemplary civic commitment far beyond the actual profession of poultry keeping and breeding has proven ".
Education and mediation
The educational work of namu focuses on diversity in the topics and in the presentation. In doing so, she puts the educational goals of the permanent exhibition into practice. It is about sustainability in thinking and acting, about sustainable, holistic learning in a global context. We can only protect what we know. This is the guide. There is currently a large number of offers: discovery trips for daycare children and school classes, offers for children's birthdays, an extensive holiday program and, since the beginning of 2011, a special museum offer for people with dementia.
Support association
In 1994 the “Friends of the Natural History Museum of the City of Bielefeld” was founded. Since then, the focus of his work has been planning a new home for the Natural History Museum, supporting museum educational work, conceptual and financial support for collections, exhibitions and projects as well as planning and conducting the annual lecture series (in cooperation with the VHS Bielefeld). Excursions are also part of the regular offer. At the beginning of 2008, the association received the 2007 environmental award from the city of Bielefeld.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ namu website : History of the museum up to the year 2000 ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 27, 2011
- ↑ namu website : History of the Museum up to the year 2000 ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 28, 2011
- ^ Wrazidlo, I. & Keiter, M .: Underground in the smallest of spaces: the new permanent geological exhibition at namu Bielefeld . In: Nature in the Museum . tape 6 , 2016, p. 58-59 .
- ↑ History of the Friends' Association ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 27, 2011
- ^ Description of the project on the website of the planning office , accessed on May 29, 2011
- ↑ Report on the exhibition on kulturpur.de , accessed on May 29, 2011
- ↑ Quotation from the press release of the exhibition on the museum's website ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 29, 2011
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 41.9 ″ E