Palais Mamming Museum

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Palais Mamming Museum

The Palais Mamming Museum , which opened in April 2015, is the city ​​museum of Merano in South Tyrol .

The permanent exhibition presents aspects of Merano and Tyrolean history in 27 sections , from prehistory to modern art with works by Friedrich Wasmann and Leo Putz . The museum also came into possession of curiosities through donations from citizens and spa guests, including an Egyptian mummy, a Sudanese collection of weapons from Slatin Pasha's estate and a death mask from Napoleon .

The museum owns around 100,000 objects, plus a Tyrolean collection with 30,000 volumes.

history

The Meraner Museumverein was founded in 1899, and in 1900 the associated museum was opened in the Glallhäusl (today the Winter Promenade). The first director was the doctor Franz Innerhofer , who invested a large part of his fortune in the museum. Due to a lack of space, the headquarters were relocated to Jahnstraße (today Galileistraße 43) in 1911. From 1998 a small part of the exhibition was shown in the “Red Eagle” on Rennweg. In 1991 the community bought the Mamming Palace to house the city museum after the renovation.

Mamming Palace

The Palais Mamming is a baroque palace that was built in 1675 or shortly afterwards by Karl Delai for the Barons Mamming. The original name was Steinachheim , Palais Desfours has also been in use since the 19th century . The building has been a listed building since 1951.

gallery

  • Figure menhir from Algund, excavated in 1942

  • Ceiling fresco, The Rape of Proserpine, around 1690

  • Napoleon's death mask

  • Peter Mitterhofer's typewriter , Meran model from 1866

literature

  • Museum Association Meran (Ed.): The Palais Mamming - From Steinachheim to the Museum. Folio Verlag, Vienna / Bozen 2015, ISBN 978-3-85256-651-1
  • The Merano Municipal Museum. In: Der Schlern 1926, pp. 219–221. (on-line)

Web links

Commons : Palais Mamming Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Mamming Palace
  2. ↑ Der Burggräfler of October 6, 1900, p. 5 Digital copy of the state library “Dr. Friedrich Teßmann "
  3. ↑ Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 17.7 "  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 56.7"  E