Natural History Museum (Graz)

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Natural History Museum Graz
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Lesliehof, Old Joanneum
Data
place Graz , Styria , Austria
Art
Natural History Museum
architect Domenico Sciassia
opening November 26, 1811
Number of visitors (annually) 30,144 (2015)
operator
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Website

The Natural History Museum in Graz is part of the Universal Museum Joanneum . It was opened in 2013 and presents objects from the botany , geology & paleontology , mineralogy and zoology collections in its permanent exhibition . The special features of the Natural History Museum include a rare mineral system based on Tschermak from the 19th century, a Styria relief that was made between 1890 and 1905 on a scale of 1: 37,500, and a show mine from the first half of the 20th century.

history

The natural history collections of the Universalmuseum Joanneum, founded by Archduke Johann in 1811, are considered to be the "germ cells" of this institution, which was originally a combination of a scientific and technical educational institution and a museum. The collections and teaching activities were housed in the main building of the Joanneum, the Lesliehof at Raubergasse 10 in Graz. Immediately after the museum was founded, a botanical garden was laid out on the area of ​​today's Joanneumsviertelplatz. This so-called Joanneumsgarten was a spacious and popular park that was abandoned in the late 1880s.

The natural history collection and display areas grew steadily as early as the 19th century. Franz Unger , the “founder of palaeobotany ” at the Joanneum, organized one of the first exhibitions in this area. After the separation of museum and teaching operations was also implemented spatially in the 1880s, the showrooms were redistributed, in which dense object arrangements were set up. The classic systematic constellations were re-established at the end of the 19th century. A saltwater aquarium was also temporarily created, which was filled with seawater from Trieste.

In the 1930s and 40s, the well-known animal painter Norbertine Bresslern-Roth created large-format background paintings for dioramas in the zoological area of ​​the museum. In the Geology & Paleontology Collection, themed rooms on the most important raw materials in Styria were set up during the Second World War . In the first half of the 20th century, the Botanical Collection presented a selection of the fruit and seed collection as well as excerpts from the herbarium .

In the 1990s, the first concepts for a fundamentally new design of the natural history museum were developed in the course of the reorganization of the former Landesmuseum Joanneum. From 2010 to 2013, the Joanneumsviertel construction project was finally realized, with which the main building of the Joanneum, the neo-baroque museum building Neutorgasse and the Styrian State Library were merged into an underground cultural center. The natural history museum as part of the Joanneumsviertel is still in its original building, the Lesliehof.

Special exhibitions

  • SEX experts. Lively bees, great pike 2017-2018
  • Nature in human hands? On Effects and Undesirable Side Effects, 2016–2017
  • Globetrotter. New Animals and Plants Among Us, 2015–2017
  • Toads, snakes & Co. In our gardens, but where ?, 2016
  • Change of effect. An interactive science exhibition, 2016
  • Changing landscape. From the Matterhorn to Vulkanland, 2015–2016
  • Terminal sea. The plastic waste project, 2015
  • Fish worlds. Greek fish plates from the Florence Gottet Collection, 2014–2015
  • Math love, 2013–2014
  • Mushrooms: Networkers of Nature, 2013–2014

literature

  • Universalmuseum Joanneum (Ed.): Nature in focus . Graz 2013.
  • Kurt Zernig: The Botanical Garden at the Joanneum (1811-1889) . In: Thomas Ster (Ed.): Garden of Knowledge. 200 years of the Graz Botanical Garden . Graz 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Joanneum Quarter was opened! In: Joanneumsviertel. Retrieved July 12, 2015 .
  2. ↑ 2015 Annual Report of the Universalmuseum Joanneum, page 21. Accessed on March 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ About us - Natural History Museum | Natural History Museum. Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ International Mineral Classification - Collection | Natural History Study Center. Retrieved March 24, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Universalmuseum Joanneun (ed.): Nature in focus . Graz 2013, p. 45 .
  6. ↑ Show mine - permanent exhibition | Natural History Museum. Retrieved March 24, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Mineralogy - Natural History Study Center | Natural History Study Center. Retrieved March 24, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Kurt Zernig: The Botanical Garden at the Joanneum (1811-1889) . In: Thomas Ster (Ed.): Garden of Knowledge. 200 years of the Graz Botanical Garden . Graz 2011, p. 40-87 .
  9. ↑ Universalmuseum Joanneum (ed.): Nature in focus . Graz 2013, p. 16-19 .
  10. ↑ History and construction - Joanneumsviertel | Joanneum district. Retrieved March 24, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Universalmuseum Joanneun (ed.): Nature in focus . Graz 2013, p. 17 .
  12. ↑ Universalmuseum Joanneum (ed.): Nature in focus . Graz 2013, p. 18 .
  13. ↑ The Joanneum Quarter: A Museum Meets Public Space | www.gat.st. August 14, 2012, accessed March 24, 2017 .
  14. ↑ exhibitions. Retrieved March 24, 2017 .