Spengler Museum
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 Spengler Museum
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| founding | 1952 |
| place | Sangerhausen |
| ISIL | DE-San6 |
| Website | www.spengler-museum.de |
The Spengler Museum is a local museum in Sangerhausen . It was opened in 1952 and is considered the first museum built during the GDR era.
history
In the first half of the 20th century, the Sangerhausen local history researcher Gustav Adolf Spengler (1869–1961) collected a wide variety of exhibits. His own house quickly became too small for the huge fund of his research work and so the city of Sangerhausen bought a large part of his collection in 1937. In 1952, the Spengler Museum opened its doors for the first time as the first completely new museum building in the GDR. The construction was organized on a purely communal level, as a withdrawal of the collections was feared.
Since September 1, 2001, Spengler's former home at Hospitalstrasse 56 has been part of the overall museum and shows the history of the family, the house and living around 1900.
Exhibitions
A permanent exhibition presents exhibits on the subjects of geology , natural history , the ice age , prehistory and early history , the Middle Ages , city history and the Sangerhausen-born author and director Einar Schleef (1944–2001). There are also special exhibitions on a wide variety of topics throughout the year.
The steppe mammoth
The skeleton of a mammoth is seen as a special feature of the Spengler collection . It is the only complete skeleton of a steppe mammoth ( Mammuthus trogontherii ) in Germany. Gustav Adolf Spengler made this greatest find of his life in 1931 near Edersleben . The excavation work lasted two years. The prepared skeleton was set up in the large hall of the Spengler Museum and has been one of the landmarks of the city of Sangerhausen ever since .
Web links
- www.spengler-museum.de Official website
- Object collection of the Spengler Museum on museum-digital.de
Single receipts
- ^ Document museum building ( Memento from November 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Description of the Mammut von Edersleben at www.harz-saale.de (accessed on July 29, 2009)
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 42.5 ″ N , 11 ° 17 ′ 39.1 ″ E