Local museum St. Antönien

The local museum St. Antönien (also valley museum St. Antönien ) is a local museum in St. Antönien in the Prättigau in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is located in the former post office building («Poscht Chäller») in the village center.

history

The history of the Walsers , their culture and their hikes are unique in the Alpine region. They are characterized by the settlement of the high alpine areas, where the Walsers created a natural cultural landscape that is still intact in many places, but needs to be looked after. The St. Antönien cultural group promotes the Walser culture in the St. Antönien valley.

Members of the cultural group founded in 1993 began to collect valuable old cultural objects and at the same time founded a local museum to make them accessible to the public. The cultural group maintains the local museum with permanent exhibitions (Lötsch pottery, Sulzfluh cave bears , historical agriculture, St. Antönier Church ) and changing exhibitions and organizes other cultural activities.

When the Graubünden government changed the municipal law in December 2002 in order to be able to introduce rubbish bag fees on May 1, 2003 , it had to be feared that old cultural objects would be disposed of before this date and would be lost forever for posterity. Therefore an attempt was made to save what could still be saved with a collection campaign.

Exhibitions

The historical collection includes mostly self-made everyday objects from the scattered settlements of Ascharina , Aschüel, Schwendi, Meierhof, Büel, Litzirüti, Sunnirüti, Stapfen and Partnunstafel. The objects made in the tradition of Walser culture are from domestic culture (spinning wheels, looms, toys, mousetraps, Lötscher ceramics, etc.) and mountain farming equipment (pitchforks, scythes, butter churns, milking buckets, etc.).

St. Antönien was the home of the Lötscher artisan dynasty, who produced St. Antönien ceramics in the Ascharina district for four generations (mugs, cups, wine jugs, coffee pots, pots, wall fountains, hand basins, plates, etc.).

Tiled stove, Lötscher pottery

Under the title “VEH Landscapes”, the St. Antönien local museum will be presenting contemporary art from June 2019 to June 2020 by 13 artists who have a connection to the valley and its history and who make references to the exhibited objects of St. Antönien ceramics from the Lötscher dynasty .

Since February 11, 2020, the museum's entire ceramic collection can also be viewed online.

literature

A. Heege: Pottery from St. Antönien. The history of the Lötscher pottery and its products (1804-1898) Archeology Graubünden - special issue 7, Glarus / Chur 2019.
F. Pieth: The pottery in St. Antönien. In: The Free Rätier No. 275, 1907.
H. Lehmann: St. Antönien dishes. In: Yearbook of the Swiss National Museum 19, 1910, 44–47.
Chr. Simonett: Peter Lötscher the founder of the pottery in St. Antönien. In: Bündner monthly newspaper. Journal of Graubünden history, local history and folklore 1974, issue 3/4, 81–103.

Web links

Commons : Ortsmuseum St. Antönien - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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[1] Prättigau: St. Antönien local museum

[2] Museums of Graubünden: Poscht-Chäller St. Antönien local museum

[3] Culture group St. Antönien

[4] Terra Grischuna 3-2019: Great art in a small house

[5] Culture group: events

[6] Southeast Switzerland of July 2, 2019: A special exhibition in St. Antönien

[7] Municipality of Luzein: VEH LANDSCHAFTEN in the valley museum St. Antönien - Lötscher ceramic project

[8] The museum ceramics in CERAMICA CH - National Ceramic Inventory of Switzerland