Silesian State Museum

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The Silesian State Museum in Opava

The Silesian State Museum ( Slezské zemské muzeum in Czech ) in Opava is a non-profit institution of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the oldest public museum in the state. The museum was founded in 1814. With over 2.4 million items it is the third largest museum in the Czech Republic.

The exhibited, mainly ethnological and archaeological exhibits , are thematically connected to the nature and history of the Czech and formerly Austrian Silesia and North Moravia . In addition to regional ethnological exhibitions, the museum has an art department with the works of Austrian and European artists, as well as a botanical garden . In addition, the Czech defenses from the years 1934–1938 are presented as an open-air exhibition.

Locations

Parent company

World War II Memorial in Hrabyně
Petr Bezruč House
Area of ​​the Czechoslovak Wall in Hlučín

The historic head office in Opava, surrounded by a spacious park, contains a permanent exhibition on the history of Silesia from prehistoric times to the present. Selected topics from history and nature as well as famous personalities and artists from the region are highlighted as focal points.

Branch offices

history

The museum was founded in 1814 by Faustin Ens , Joseph Schössler and Franz von Mückusch and Buchberg as a natural history collection of the Troppauer high school. This grammar school was housed in a side wing of the Landhaus am Niederring (formerly Jesuit college), which today houses the state archives. The museum developed rapidly and soon had a national reputation.

From 1893 to 1895 a Renaissance dome was built on the site of the former Liechtenstein Castle according to the plans of the Viennese architects Johann Nepomuk Scheiringer and Franz Kachler , in whose rooms the museum is now the Silesian State Museum under the direction of the Nuremberg art historian Edmund Wilhelm Braun (1870– 1957) moved in.

In the last days of the war in 1945 the museum building burned down and part of the valuable holdings was destroyed. After the reconstruction was completed in 1955, the museum suffered from renovations, closings and an unclear museum concept several times. After a thorough renovation, it reopened in 2012 with a new permanent exhibition.

In 2014, the 200-year history of the museum was celebrated with a ceremony to which the Upper Silesian State Museum in Ratingen was invited.

Directors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Viennese architect Johann Nepomuk Scheiringer. In: architektenlexikon.at, accessed on August 16, 2019.
  2. ^ The Viennese architect Franz Kachler. In: architektenlexikon.at, accessed on August 16, 2019.
  3. ^ Museum history on the German-language homepage .

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '3.4 "  N , 17 ° 54" 14.2 "  E