Pomeranian State Museum

Forecourt and entrance to the museum

The Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald shows exhibits on geological history, pieces from 14,000 years of Pomeranian regional studies as well as paintings, including by Caspar David Friedrich , and many other historical cultural assets. The sponsor is the Pomeranian State Museum Foundation, founded in 1996.

History of origin

The museum was built from 1998 to June 2005. The construction costs amounted to 20 million euros. It consists of an ensemble of four buildings: the classical Quistorp building (former city school), the gray monastery (former poor and old people's home), the brick building of the library of the Gothic Franciscan monastery and the Museum Street . The ensemble also includes a monastery garden and a meadow with Scandinavian boulders .

Glass connection building with café

In the Croy Hall you can see the four by seven meter large, unique Croÿ carpet , an artistic testimony to the Reformation. The development of Greifswald University is also documented on the basis of numerous exhibits.

History departments

chronology

• 1992 The city of Greifswald and the Ernst Moritz Arndt University apply to the responsible state ministry to set up the Pomeranian State Museum
• 1993 Historic buildings in the city center are the citizenship provided for use
• 1996 Establishment of a Pommersches Landesmuseum foundation by the federal government , the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein , the city, the university , the Pommersche Landsmannschaft eV, West Pomeranian Voivodeship and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• 1996 architectural competition (winner: Gregor Sunder-Plassmann office from Kappeln )
• 1998 Start of construction on the future picture gallery, the Quistorp House
• 1999 Relocation of the holdings of the Pommern Foundation from Kiel to Greifswald
• 2002: Acquisition of a large part of the Schmiterlöwschen collection from Erik von Schmiterlöw
• 2005 Completion and handover of the entire ensemble
• 2010 Opening of the second section of the exhibition on the country's history: From the Swedish Era to the Imperial Bath. Pomerania 1600-1900
• 2010 At the foundation of the estate of Mac Zimmermann by his widow.
• 2016: Permanent loan from the Christoph Müller Collection with Danish art from the 19th and 20th centuries to Greifswald. This collection, consisting of 152 paintings, 172 drawings and 50 graphics, was donated by Christoph Müller to the State Museum Schwerin , which is giving it to Greifswald as a permanent loan.

The picture gallery in Mühlenstrasse

• 2017: In December 2017, the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania decided to renovate Ludwigsburg Palace (Western Pomerania) and use it as a museum under the guise of the Pommersches Landesmuseum Foundation.

Works of art in the Pomeranian State Museum in the picture gallery

• Carl Schuch : At the Seddiner See near Kähnsdorf
• Frans Hals : Portrait of a noble gentleman
• Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller : The emergency sale (version from 1853)
• Philipp Otto Runge : Portrait of Wilhelmina Sophia Helwig
• Fritz von Uhde : Let the little children come to me
• Max Liebermann : Garden restaurant
• Albert Weisgerber : In the beer garden
• Anselm Feuerbach : Self-Portrait
• Andreas Achenbach : Troll Had Falls
• Carl Hasenpflug : Dilapidated Chapel
• Carl Gustav Carus : Bare tree in the autumn mist
• Johann Alexander Thiele : Elbe landscape with Königstein
• Joseph Anton Koch : Landscape near Grottaferrata
• Andrea Vicentino : Festive reception for Heinrich III. of France in Venice on July 18, 1574.

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  Georg Flegel : Still life with herring and Bartmann's jug

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  Johann Alexander Thiele : Elbe landscape with Königstein (after 1738)

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  Jacob Philipp Hackert : The Ponte a Mare in Pisa (1799)

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  Caspar David Friedrich : Neubrandenburg in the Morning Fog (1816/17)

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  Caspar David Friedrich : Eldena ruins in the Giant Mountains

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  Vincent van Gogh : Avenue near Arles with houses

See also

• List of state museums
• List of museums in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

literature

• Stefan Fassbinder : From monastery to museum - 750 years of history between Mühlenstrasse and the city wall in Greifswald. In: Monasteries and monastic culture in Hanseatic cities. Colloquium Stralsund 2001. Stralsund contributions to archeology, history, art and folklore in Western Pomerania, Volume 4. Rahden 2003, pp. 157–164.
• Stefan Fassbinder: The Pomeranian State Museum. From the idea to the opening. In: Greifswald contributions. Volume 2, 2005, pp. 47-50.
• Frank Schmitz, Armin Wenzel: Pommersches Landesmuseum Greifswald . Stadtwandel-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86711-010-5 .

Web links

Commons : Pommersches Landesmuseum Greifswald  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature about the Pomeranian State Museum in the State Bibliography MV
• Pomeranian State Museum
• Pomeranian State Museum at Google Cultural Institute
• Collections of the University of Greifswald

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.pommersches-landesmuseum.de/das-museum/die-stiftung/ein-neues-museum-im-ostseeraum.html
2. ^ Felix Biermann, Thomas Terberger: Archeology and history in the Baltic region
3. ^ Ostseezeitung , regional edition Greifswald, January 13, 2012
4. ^ Danish romanticism soon in Greifswald ( memento from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), report from NDR from April 4, 2016, accessed on April 4, 2016
5. ↑ Negotiations about Ludwigsburg Castle decided , insidegreifswald.de, December 11, 2017

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 41 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 57 ″  E