Soltau game museum
The Spielmuseum Soltau (formerly: North German Toy Museum) is a museum in the Lower Saxony city of Soltau . It emerged from a private collection of the Ernst family in Soltau and has up to 40,000 visitors annually.
history
In 1978 Hannelore, Mathias and Antje Ernst showed their toy collection for the first time in the three rooms of their private house. In 1984 the doll and toy museum was founded at the town hall. The collection was presented to the public for the first time on the ground floor of the old mayor's villa on Rosenstrasse.
Since 1988 the play museum has been located in the Ebelmeyerhaus , which was built in 1830 and is a listed building , in the center of Soltau (Poststrasse 7). Between 1996 and 1999 the exhibition area was expanded from 200 to 600 square meters.
In order to ensure the continued existence of the important collection, the non-profit foundation Spiel: Historical Toys - Innovative Playrooms was founded, which has been operating the museum since August 1, 2005. The Ernst family donated their toy collection to the foundation. The chairman of the board of trustees has been Gunilla Budde since 2006 . The Game Museum has been a registered museum since 2007 .
In autumn 2013, the museum rented additional rooms in the immediate vicinity of the main building (Poststrasse 15), thereby increasing the exhibition area to 900 square meters. The game museum will be rebuilt to be barrier-free by 2015. In addition to numerous changes in the entrance and interior area, the new elevator tower, which is being built on the outside of the facade of the main building and connects the three floors, is particularly eye-catching. At the top of the tower is the so-called flying classroom , an event room hanging in the air with a mirrored surface that is to be used for various lectures or school classes.
exhibition
In the play museum, exhibits from five centuries - the oldest exhibit dates from 1647 - represent a piece of toy and cultural history on 900 square meters with a special focus on the period between 1750 and 1900. In addition to dolls made of various materials, as well as dolls ' houses, dolls ' rooms and kitchens and shops, the museum also shows trains, tin, paper and wooden toys , board games, magic lantern devices as well as teddy bears and other stuffed animals.
The museum not only has a large number of exhibits to admire. Visitors are also offered numerous opportunities to play. There are also listening stations in several places, with the help of which stories about the respective exhibits can be heard.
The showpiece of the exhibition is Dingley Hall , a three-meter-wide and two-meter-high doll's house with 15 rooms and more than 1,000 accessories, which was auctioned at Christie's in London in 2003 for € 190,000 .
Former entrance area
Puppet school
toy cars
Dollhouses
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Böhme-Zeitung of October 5, 2010, p. 2
- ↑ Get to know us - Das Haus ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at spielmuseum-soltau.de
- ↑ Museum Association for Lower Saxony and Bremen: Registered museums 2007 - 2014 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 9, 2011.
- ↑ Information on the 2014/15 renovation ( memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Collection focal points and highlights ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at spielmuseum-soltau.de
- ↑ Permanent exhibition ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at spielmuseum-soltau.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ 12.7 " N , 9 ° 50 ′ 17.7" E