Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim

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Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
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place Hildesheim
opening 1844
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Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim GmbH; the city ​​of Hildesheim is the sole shareholder
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Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim (2005)

The Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim is a museum in Hildesheim that is known worldwide for its important ancient Egyptian collection and is named after Hermann Roemer and Wilhelm Pelizaeus . This museum also has a considerable collection of ancient Peruvians , the second largest collection of Chinese porcelain in Europe and an extensive natural history collection with over 300,000 objects.

history

Statue of Hemiunu in the museum (2006); from Giza , early 4th Dynasty
Spear attachment, Chimú culture (1200–1470 AD), northern Peru

The Roemer Museum Hildesheim was founded in 1844 by an association; since then the lawyer , senator and geologist Hermann Roemer has been considered the museum's founder. The converted Martinikirche and the orphanage served as the first museum buildings .

The merchant, banker and consul Wilhelm Pelizaeus , who lived in Cairo for around forty years , donated his collection of Egyptian finds to his hometown in 1907. On July 29, 1911, the Pelizaeus Museum was opened. The Ancient Egypt collection of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum today comprises around 9,000 objects from all epochs , from prehistory to the Roman and Christian times of Egypt, thus spanning a period of over 5,000 years. The most important and largest focus are the objects of the Old Kingdom (around 2707-2170 BC), almost all of which come from the excavations in the pyramid cemetery of Giza . Therefore, the museum is one of the most important places next to the museums in Cairo and Boston , where you can study the evidence of the pyramid era.

In the first third of the 19th century, the museum used the arts of the Metallkunst Herrenhausen company to have replicas made for missing or damaged parts of the ancient Egyptian collection.

The collection has other interesting focal points of high international standing; These include, for example, the stelae from the Ramesside period (13th century BC), on which the veneration of Ramses II is depicted in the form of his statues , the cult chapel of the god Osiris-Baboon from Tuna el-Gebel (around 300 BC). Chr.) As well as the sarcophagus lid of Nachtnebef .

The collection of Chinese porcelain was transferred to the museum in 1927 after Ernst Ohlmer's death . The collections and the museum became the property of the city at the beginning of the 20th century. Since 1992 there have been 150 paintings by the artist Waltraute Macke-Brüggemann and a large part of her graphic and drawing work as the Waltraute-Macke-Brüggemann Foundation in the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim.

In the years 1998 to 2000 , a new building for the museum was implemented , also thanks to broad support from Hildesheim initiatives and associations. In the course of the new building, the museum was outsourced from the city administration, so that it has been able to act more independently as a GmbH since 2000 . The museum also receives an annual financial grant from the city of Hildesheim.

Particularly at the time of the new building, selected pieces from the ancient Egyptian collection were lent to very successful special exhibitions in America and Asia. In addition to the permanent exhibitions that are well worth seeing, the museum is particularly well known for its special exhibitions. Due to its scientific reputation , the museum has repeatedly succeeded in bringing extraordinary international exhibitions to Hildesheim. The name of the longstanding museum director Arne Eggebrecht is closely linked to these services .

Employee

Directors
Roemer Museum

Pelizaeus Museum

Curators
  • Bettina Schmitz (1978–2012)
  • Helga Stein (1979-2002)
  • Jürgen Vespermann (since 1992)
  • Arnulf Siebeneicker (2008–2011)
  • Ulrich Menter (2010–2015)
  • Christian Bayer (since 2014)
  • Andrea Nicklisch (since 2015)

Collection areas

  • Ancient Egypt, focus: the Old Kingdom, Horbeit steles , cult chamber of Uhemka , grave stele of Nemti-ui
  • Ancient Peru
  • Natural history
  • Asia
  • Ethnological collections are accessible for research purposes: focus on the South Seas and Africa
  • Painting collection by regional artists of the 19th century and modern, such as B. Waltraute Macke-Brüggemann
  • City history, exhibited in the bone carving office
  • The museum has found in its holdings the oldest large-format photographs of Hildesheim views , which Georg Koppmann from Hamburg distributed at Christmas 1871 through Gerstenberg Verlag .
  • Drawings and prints
  • Museum of the Senses. Experience cultural and geological history without barriers!
    • The aim of the new permanent exhibition is barrier-free access for everyone. The concept includes u. a. Easy to use installations, free access to the objects, a special audio and guide system, texts in large and Braille and monitors with information in sign language.

Special exhibitions

  • 2019–2020: Encounters: 5 cultures - 5000 years
  • 2018–2019: Errors and forgeries in archeology (a special exhibition by the LWL Museum for Archeology in Herne )
  • 2017–2018: Around the world with 80 objects
  • 2017: Marc Erwin Babej: Yesterday - Tomorrow
  • 2016–2017: Anja Schindler: Preziosen
  • 2016: Mummies of the World
  • 2015–2017: Treasures for the Emperor. Masterpieces of Chinese Art (1368–1911)
  • 2015: S for jewelry in dialogue with antiquity. The art of Wolfgang Skoluda
  • 2015: Hildesheim in the Middle Ages. The roots of the rose
  • 2014: Gerold Schülke. Wonderful world of plants
  • 2014: Fayum al Funun. A source of art
  • 2014: Josepha Gasch-Muche. Light phenomena from glass
  • 2014: The creation of the world. Egypt's last creation myth
  • 2014: Bees in danger - people in danger
  • 2013: b.Art encounter in artistic dialogue
  • 2013: Counterworlds. The invisible side of things
  • 2013: The Power of the Toga. Fashion in the Roman Empire
  • 2012–2013: Edith Bernhauer: Orient and Occident
  • 2012–2013: Points of View. Places of Photography
  • 2012: The Archimedes Code. On the trail of a genius
  • 2012: Picasso. Magic of graphics
  • 2011: Wilhelm Pelizaeus - businessman, collector, museum founder
  • 2011: Giza - At the foot of the great pyramids
    exhibition about the excavations by Georg Steindorff and Hermann Junkers on the Giza plateau . Wilhelm Pelizaeus financed the excavations and obtained various objects by dividing the finds. On display are finds from four graves, which are presented in their original context 100 years after their discovery. In addition to the exhibits from the Hildesheim Museum, there are loans and a. from Leipzig , Munich and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .
  • 2010-2011: Duckomenta
  • 2010: Cyprus - Island of Aphrodite
    More than 200 exhibits from collections of Cypriot art were shown. The Republic of Cyprus contributed 116 of these , including the famous late Hellenistic statue of Aphrodite , which divers recovered from the seabed off Nea Paphos . This was shown for the first time in Germany. Other exhibits came from the Louvre and German Cyprus collections.
  • 2008–2009: Paradises of the South Seas. Myth and Reality
  • 2007-2008: Maya. Kings from the rainforest
  • 2006–2007: Beauty in Ancient Egypt. Longing for perfection
  • 2006: Cult around the ball: on the footsteps of football
  • 2006: 30 years of Playmobil - Discover the world
    A traveling exhibition of the Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyers
  • 2005–2006: Europe and Egypt. Cultural encounters from the Greeks to Winckelmann
  • 2005: From the Wunderkammer Chiddingstone Castle. Pharaohs - Buddhas - Samurai
  • 2004: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art. Treasures from the Myers Museum at Eton College
  • 2003–2004: Beyond the Great Wall. Ancient bronzes of the Asian steppe peoples from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York
  • 2003: Placido Zuloaga. Spanish Treasures from the Khalili Collection, London
  • 2002–2003: Napoleon Bonaparte - Tsar Alexander I. Epoch of two emperors
  • 1999: Ice Age. The great adventure of mastering nature
  • 1998: James Bond. Gamer and spy
  • 1995: Sunken Kingdoms of Indonesia
  • 1994: China, a cradle of world culture. 5000 years of inventions and discoveries
  • 1994: Mysterious Old Mexico. Aztec art
  • 1993: dinosaurs
  • 1992: The world of the Maya. Archaeological treasures from three millennia
  • 1990–1991: Egypt - search for immortality
    (also: search for immortality - cult of the dead and belief in the afterlife in ancient Egypt )
    Since the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim suffered from space problems, only parts of the holdings could be made accessible to the public. The permanent exhibition was therefore sporadically supplemented by thematic special exhibitions. This exhibition was organized by the Egyptologist Bettina Schmitz. Artifacts were compiled from the magazine inventory, which were connected with the sometimes quite different ideas of the afterlife and the different cults of the dead . The catalog lists 38 exhibits, some of them high-quality and multi-part. These include mummies , mummy masks , sarcophagi and coffins , amulets, grave reliefs, shabti figures , canopic jars , depictions of the gods of the dead in various forms and a book of the dead . Excerpts from Egyptian books of the dead completed the catalog . The exhibition also included copies of the wall paintings from the
    Tomb of the Night made by the US Egyptologist Norman de Garis Davies between 1907 and 1910, but these are not listed in the catalog. They were presented for the first time in Europe by the owner of the work, the Metropolitan Museum of Art , as part of the exhibition .
  • 1988: Albania. Treasures from the land of the Skipetars
  • 1987: Egypt's rise to world power
  • 1986: The splendor and fall of ancient Mexico. The Aztecs and their predecessors
  • 1985: Nofret - The Beautiful. The woman in ancient Egypt
  • 1984: Max Klinger
  • 1983: Art treasures from old Nigeria
  • 1982: Lascaux - Ice Age Cave
  • 1981: Art treasures from China
  • 1980: Thracian gold
  • 1979: gods and pharaohs
  • 1978: Sumer, Assur, Babylon. 7000 years of art and culture between the Euphrates and Tigris
  • 1977: Gold from Peru
  • 1976: Akhenaten - Nefertiti - Tutankhamun

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Günther Roeder , Albert Ippel : The monuments of the Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim (= art and antiquity. Old cultures in the light of new research. Volume III). Curtius, Berlin 1921 ( online access via the Internet Archive ).
  • Hans Kayser : The Egyptian antiquities in the Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1973, ISBN 3-8067-8002-1 .
  • Ulrich Wiesner: Chinese porcelain Ohlmer collection in the Roemer Museum Hildesheim. von Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0529-X .
  • Klemens Mörmann (ed.): The German museum guide in color. Museums and collections in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. Gutenberg Book Guild , Frankfurt am Main / Olten / Vienna 1983, DNB 870131540 , pp. 466-470.
  • Peter Stepan (ed.): The German museums. Westermann's colored guide through all important museums and collections. Westermann Sachbuch, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-14-508854-8 , pp. 227-228.
  • Arne Eggebrecht : Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim. The Egyptian Collection. von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1569-4 .
  • Manfred Boetzkes (ed.): Worlds in showcases. The collections of the Roemer Museum in Hildesheim. (= Facsimile of the collection guide from 1914). Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim 1994, DNB 975983369 .
  • Christoph Hahn, Siegmar Hohl (ed.): The great museum guide. Collections on art, culture, nature and technology in Germany. Bassermann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-8094-5013-9 , p. 248.
  • Maike Kozok: From monastery to museum - studies on the architectural history of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-8067-8713-9 .
  • Katja Lembke (ed.): Ancient Egypt in Hildesheim. 2 volumes. von Zabern, Mainz 2009–2011, DNB 997128488 .
    • Volume 1: Martin von Falck, Bettina Schmitz : The Old Empire. Egypt from the beginnings to high culture. von Zabern, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-8053-4073-1 .
    • Volume 2: Martin von Falck, Katja Lembke, Britta Rabe: Life on the Nile and everyday life in ancient Egypt. von Zabern, Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4285-8 .
  • Gundolf Krüger, Peter-Rene Becker, among others: History of the ethnological collections of Lower Saxony. In: Gundolf Krüger, Ulrich Menter, Jutta Steffen-Schrade (eds.): TABU ?! Hidden Powers - Secret Knowledge. Imhof, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 3-86568-864-0 , pp. 108-113.
  • Mang Chen, Jing Li, Ulrich Menter, Regine Schulz : dragon, phoenix, bat. Masterpieces of Chinese art from the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim. Quensen Druck + Verlag GmbH, Hildesheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-050532-4 .

Web links

Commons : Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Roeder : Egyptian bronze works in the Pelizaeus Museum. Augustin, Glückstadt / Hamburg / New York 1937. In: Scientific publication. Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, partly online .
  2. Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung of March 31, 2020: Manfred Boetzkes is dead. Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum: former director died , accessed on March 31, 2020
  3. ^ Ludwig Hoerner : Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography. Published by the Hanover and Hildesheim photographers' guilds, produced by the Bad Pyrmont Vocational Promotion Agency for typesetting, reproduction photography, printing form production, flat printing and bookbinding as part of the retraining course , 1989, p. 76.

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 59 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 39 ″  E