Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover

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The Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover (own name: Landesmuseum Hanover Das WeltenMuseum ) is located in Hanover at the Maschpark opposite the New Town Hall . It consists of five departments. On display are a collection of paintings, graphics and sculptures with works of art from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century, as well as important exhibits from archeology, natural history and ethnology, as well as a coin cabinet .

Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover, March 2009

history

The Hannover Provincial Museum around 1900, still with a large dome;
Photo by Karl Friedrich Wunder
The Lower Saxony State Museum 2013 seen from the air
Museum restoration workshop, June 2017

Forerunner of the museum is the in the presence of the February 23, 1856 King George V inaugurated Museum of Art and Science . The building is still used today as the Künstlerhaus Hannover . The initiative for the construction came from the Natural History Society of Hanover together with the Historical Association for Lower Saxony and the Association for Public Art Collections in the middle of the 19th century, who wanted to merge their extensive collections and make them accessible to the public.

In the following years, the museum was renamed Museum der Provinz Hannover and later the Provinzialmuseum . The house with its extensive collections quickly suffered from a lack of space and since no structural extensions were possible in 1895, a new building was built in 1902 on the edge of the Maschpark . Hubert Stier designed the representative museum building in the neo-renaissance style . The relief frieze "Main Moments in the Development of Humanity" on the building was created by the sculptor Georg Herting together with Karl Gundelach and Georg Küsthardt . In 1933 the museum was given the name Landesmuseum and in 1950 the current name Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover .

The collections were relocated during the Second World War . The dome over the central risalit was destroyed by the air raids on Hanover . From 1995 to 2000 extensive renovation and modernization measures were carried out inside the building. The reopening took place during Expo 2000 on May 13, 2000. Since 2014, the collections have been redesigned as a World Museum.

Personalities

Museum directors

Scientific staff

Exhibition concept WeltenMuseum

The State Museum is gradually realizing a new exhibition concept as the WeltenMuseum , in which the different collections are combined into worlds . The worlds can be found on the three floors of the museum building and are designated from bottom to top as follows: NaturWelten, MenschenWelten and ArtWorlds . The renovation on the ground floor in the NaturWelten was completed in 2014.

Natural worlds

Wolf male MT6, called "Kurti", born in 2014, was shot in the Lüneburg Heath in 2016 because he showed little fear of people.

The NaturWelten for the natural history areas of geology and biosciences give insights into the history of the earth with exhibits of fossils and dinosaurs as well as depictions of the tectonics of the earth plates and earthquakes . The diversity of northern German landscapes with their flora and fauna is shown.

There is an audio guide for a 40-minute tour of the exhibition. It contains a radio play in which a captain reports on his voyage on the expedition to South America with the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt . The story comes from the children's book author Christine Raudies and is spoken by Ludger Abeln .

Water worlds

Since November 2013, the WasserWelten have been showing aquatic animals and their habitats. The development of life from unicellular to mammal is the subject of an interactive station . Over 200 different aquatic species from different habitats such as the North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, tropical waters of South America, the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific can be seen in the vivarium . The living animals are supplemented by natural history preparations . A skull cabinet shows which animals are also bound to the water. In addition to the hippopotamus, polar bear, gray seal and seal skull bones, the skull of a Steller manatee can also be found here .

Land and coastal worlds

Dinosaurs , reptiles and amphibians can be found in the land and coastal worlds . The themes of the Middle Ages in Lower Saxony and the development of reptiles and amphibians are presented. The exhibition shows original plates with dinosaur tracks from the Obernkirchen sandstone quarries and plates from the Wesling quarry in Münchehagen (Nienburg district). There are two large terrariums in the exhibition. One of them houses the skeleton of a Plateosaurus and several bearded dragons . The second terrarium offers space for a pair of green iguanas . The exhibits include finds of crocodiles and turtles as well as a variety of fossil plants and skeletons, including iguanas and giant salamanders .

Air worlds

Birds and mammals are dedicated to the air worlds , but numerous fossils are also presented . The history of the landscape through panoramas and media stations covers the areas of the North Sea and its islands, the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands, the Caribbean and South America.

The bird collection shows the life and death stories of three species of birds that have been exterminated by humans: giant aalk , pigeon and Carolina's parakeet . A large aviary with 80 birds from the hummingbird to the Darwin rhea shows the spectrum of bird families. A tropical exhibition area is dedicated to the island world of the Caribbean . Sea urchins , hard corals and predatory snails come from the quarries of western Hanover and show the Caribbean climate in the area of ​​today's Hanover approx. 150 million years ago.

Media stations, which were realized in cooperation with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel , deal with climate change and its effects on the North and Baltic Seas. Among the surviving inhabitants in terrariums include a scarlet kingsnake , a tarantula , two real Hundskopfboas , Crete spiny mice , tree holes toad tree frogs , poison dart frog , Peru Samtschrecken and Carolina anole .

Archeology (MenschenWelten)

The archaeological collection houses objects from today's Lower Saxony and neighboring regions from the Paleolithic to the High Middle Ages . In addition to many objects of everyday life, there are extraordinary gold objects, such as the gold lunula from Schulenburg , and also bog bodies such as the man from Neu Versen , known as Roter Franz. The department is supported by the Lower Saxony Regional Association for Prehistory and its working group “... Stone Age ".

The archaeological collection is joined by the ethnology section with holdings from South America and objects from James Cook 's expedition to the South Seas .

Ethnology (MenschenWelten)

The ethnographic collection is one of the oldest in the German-speaking area and includes around 20,000 art and everyday objects from all parts of the world. In the footsteps of researchers and ethnologists, the voyage of discovery leads through America , Africa , Oceania and Asia to a wide variety of religions and cultures.

The Asian collection was expanded in the mid-1960s by Ernst Schäfer's trip to India (in particular with Tibet exhibits through contact with the Tibetans in exile who were driven out by the Chinese) and presented in a special exhibition in 1965. Schäfer was chief curator in the natural history department from 1960 to 1970.

State Gallery (KunstWelten)

From the museum's collection: Lovis Corinth : Paddel-Petermannchen (the nickname for his wife was " Petermannchen ")

The conversion of the Landesgalerie on the upper floor of the house to the KunstWelten is still pending . The state gallery encompasses art from the 11th to the early 20th century, including one of the largest collections of medieval art in Germany with important altarpieces and sculptures. Rembrandt , Rubens and Albrecht Dürer , among others , are represented . Works from the German and Italian Renaissance , the Baroque , but also Flemish and Dutch paintings from the 17th century are shown. In the Kupferstichkabinett mainly works by old German masters, Dutch drawings, 19th century graphics and drawings by German impressionists. Danish painting of the 19th and early 20th centuries, for example Constantin Hansen . The highlights of the collection include Gothic altarpieces (including Masters of the Golden Table , Masters of the Göttingen Barefoot Altar ), works by Tilman Riemenschneider , paintings from French and German Impressionism , including Max Liebermann , Corinth , Oppler , Slevogt , as well as large groups of works by the Worpswede artists' colony , like Bernhard Hoetger , Fritz Overbeck , Otto Modersohn and Paula Modersohn-Becker . With Caspar David Friedrich's daily cycle, the Landesgalerie owns the only completely preserved series by this most important painter and draftsman of the German early Romantic period in a museum.

Coin Cabinet

The State Museum's coin cabinet contains 43,000 coins, medals and orders. It essentially consists of the former royal collection of the Welfenhaus. Because Hanoverian Guelphs sat on England's throne from 1714 to 1837 , this inventory includes many rare pieces from the British Empire at the time. The Royal Coin Cabinet, acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1983, was acquired in full by the State of Lower Saxony in December 2009 for five million euros from funding from the Economic Stimulus Package II and included in the holdings of the State Museum.

Support associations and groups of friends

The departments of the State Museum are ideally and materially supported by numerous sponsoring associations:

  • Kunstfreunde Hannover e. V.
  • Support group of the Lower Saxony State Gallery e. V.
  • Ethnological Society Hannover e. V. - Friends of Ethnology of the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
  • Lower Saxony State Association for Prehistory e. V.
  • Natural History Society Hannover e. V.

Special exhibitions and services

The State Museum regularly shows special exhibitions on changing topics.

Light installation “Farbdepesche” by Daniel Hausig , here in the colors of the Union Jack in the run-up to the Lower Saxony State Exhibition 2014 on the
personal union
between Great Britain and Hanover
  • 2009/10: That's me! The portrait from antiquity to the present
  • 2010: A royal collection. The new coin cabinet
  • 2011: near and far. Landscape painting from Brueghel to Corinth
  • 2011/12: Marco Polo. From Venice to China. Who with whom? The gods of Olympus
  • 2012: In the animal kingdom. Forays through art and nature
  • 2012/13: TABOO ?! Hidden Powers - Secret Knowledge
  • 2013: Pontormo. Masterpieces of Mannerism in Florence
  • 2013: The fascination of Nefertiti. Bernhard Hoetger and Egypt. Pontormo. Masterpieces of Mannerism in Florence
  • 2013/14: In the golden ratio. Lower Saxony's longest excavation for laying the NEL pipeline , including the Goldhort von Gessel and the Venus von Bierden
  • 2014: When the Royals came from Hanover - Hanover's ruler on England's throne 1714 - 1837 (with external exhibitions in the Museum Schloss Herrenhausen , in the Historisches Museum Hannover , in the Museum Wilhelm Busch and in the Residence Museum of the Celle Castle )
  • 2014/15: high-tech Römer
  • 2015: future life. The demographic opportunity
  • 2015: fire pictures. Works of art as witnesses to the Second World War
  • 2015 highlights. Nature photographs 2015
  • 2015: Unsettled. Photographs by Cedric Nunn
  • 2015/16: Madonna. Woman - mother - cult figure
  • 2016: The myth of home. Worpswede and the European artist colonies
  • 2016/17: A delicate legacy. Colonial traces up to the present day
  • 2017: Always more colorful. Immigration country Germany (an exhibition by the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany )
  • 2017: the wolf. A wild animal returns
  • 2017: highlights. Nature photographs 2017
  • 2017/18: Sílberglanz. From the art of old age
  • 2017/18: Romantic looks. German drawings of the 19th century
  • 2018: Treasurer. 200 years of the monastery chamber of Hanover
  • 2018/19: Max Slevogt . A retrospective for the 150th birthday
  • 2019: State exhibition in cooperation with the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum : Saxones. A new story of the old Saxons
  • 2019: The turn of the ages 1400. The Golden Plate as a European masterpiece (Cooperation with the Hildesheim Cathedral Museum : The turn of the ages 1400. Hildesheim as a European metropolis around 1400 )
  • 2020: Leonardo's world. Da Vinci digital

In addition to visiting exhibitions, the museum offers private individuals the option of pest control on art and cultural objects in an in-house nitrogen chamber .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Lower Saxony State Museum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. presse-hannover.de: The artist house
  2. Marko Jelusić: A haven for world-famous art. Bad Wildungen as a salvage depot for the State Museum and the Kestner Museum Hannover during the Second World War , In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 65, 2011, pp. 111-134 ( online at academia.edu).
  3. a b Simon Benne: Brakke successor / Katja Lembke new director of the Landesmuseum Hannover , online edition of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from January 11, 2011.
  4. oV : Contents in Edfried Bühler, Herbert Droste, Hans Georg Gmelin, Hans-Günter Peters, Horst Rohde, Waldemar R. cannon bone, Diedrich Saalfeld home chronicle of the district Hanover (= native chronicles of the cities and districts of the federal territory , Volume 49) 1st edition, Cologne: Archive for German Home Care, 1980, pp. 534–537; here: p. 534
  5. Harald Gläser et al. (Red.): Handbook of the museums: Federal Republic of Germany. German Democratic Republic. Austria. Switzerland. Liechtenstein (= Handbook of museums ), 2nd, revised edition, Munich; New York; London; Paris: KG Saur, 1981, ISBN 978-3-598-10345-2 and ISBN 3-598-10345-X , p. 163; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ^ Rainer Albert : Sebastian Steinbach is the new curator in the Hanover Coin Cabinet . In: GN . tape 55 , no. 307 , January 2020, ISSN  0435-1835 , p. 430 .
  7. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 7, 2015 on page 11: "Greenhorn meets wild animals. In future, audio guide will guide visitors through the natural worlds show in the State Museum."
  8. ^ Jens Heckl: The new Lower Saxony Coin Cabinet in Hanover . In: GN . No. 254 , March 2011, p. 85-87 .
  9. ^ The Lower Saxony Coin Treasure In: Die Welt Kompakt (Hamburg edition) of 10 September 2009, p. 15.

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 56 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 24 ″  E