Burgdorf Castle Museum
The Burgdorf Castle Museum is a museum opened in 1886 in Burgdorf Castle ( Burgdorf , Canton of Bern ), which uses objects, pictures and documents to trace the history of the city and its surroundings from the High Middle Ages to the 20th century and depicts famous personalities who lived and lived in Burgdorf worked.
The existence of the Burgdorf Castle Museum is owed to a group of citizens interested in history who prevented the canton of Bern from converting the knight's hall and the adjoining castle chapel into prison cells. Thanks to the intervention of these citizens, the government council finally abandoned its project, and so Max Fankhauser, the first president of the knight hall association, was able to open the museum in 1886. It was a pioneering act because this facility was created before the major museums in Switzerland.
Today, in addition to the knight's hall and the Johanneskapelle, the museum also includes other rooms in the castle and has been transformed from a local to a regional museum. Among others, the pedagogue Heinrich Pestalozzi , the later California pioneer Johann August Sutter and the Schnell brothers , who put an end to the old rule of rule in the state of Bern, will be presented.
The museum organizes guided tours, conducts museum education and holds special exhibitions, castle nights and a family day. It has one of the largest collections of Bernese ceramics from the pottery locations Heimberg , Langnau im Emmental , Bäriswil and Blankenburg . In addition, outstanding ceramic objects from the Vögeli pottery in Burgdorf are shown. Due to the change in use of the entire castle, the museum is currently closed.
Langnau "wedding bowl", terrine or show dinner, around 1800 from the Burgdorf Castle Museum
Langnau terrine with pomegranate handle, 1782 from the Burgdorf Castle Museum
