Sports Museum Leipzig

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2007 planned domicile of the sports museum in the north stand of the former swimming stadium

In addition to the German Sport & Olympics Museum in Cologne and the Sports Museum Berlin, the Sports Museum Leipzig is one of the three major sports history museum collections in Germany. The facility belonging to the City History Museum Leipzig currently comprises around 95,000 objects from the history of gymnastics and sports from the 17th Century. The collection cannot currently be viewed in a permanent exhibition .

history

In 1977, as part of extensive modernizations in the central stadium in Leipzig, the sports museum of the city of Leipzig was set up in the facade of the facility . On the occasion of the VI. At the gymnastics and sports festival of the GDR , the museum was opened with a permanent exhibition on around 600 m² with around 3,000 objects on German sports history using Leipzig as an example. A revision and update of the exhibition took place for the 10th anniversary in 1987. The permanent exhibition was closed in 1991, and in the following year the museum was moved into what was then the external building of the city history museum. Since 1996, the collection, including administration and specialist library, has been housed at the Sportforum Leipzig .

The Förderverein Sächsisches Sportmuseum eV was founded in 1991 and has been publishing an irregularly published magazine since 1992 and has since made numerous new acquisitions possible for the collections.

Since the facility's permanent exhibition was closed, there have been three special exhibitions in the Leipzig City History Museum, which were largely designed by the Sports Museum: Sport: Show. German gymnastics festivals 1860–2002 (2002), master of the rules. The football referee (official contribution to the arts and culture program for the 2006 , 2006 FIFA World Cup ) and In Motion. Milestones in Leipzig's sports history (2018).

At the council meeting of the city of Leipzig on September 19, 2007 it was decided to build the preserved north stand of the former swimming stadium in the Sportforum Leipzig as the new domicile of the sports museum including the permanent exhibition. Due to a lack of funding, this project could not be implemented. As part of the special exhibition In Motion. Milestones in Leipzig's sports history was announced on August 21, 2018 that the Free State of Saxony is providing around two million euros to realize the reopening of the Leipzig Sports Museum. A new building is planned on the forecourt of the stadium, which is to be implemented together with RB Leipzig .

Collection focus

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Rodekamp (Ed.): In motion. Milestones in Leipzig's sports history. Exhibition in the City History Museum Leipzig . Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-910034-80-8 , p. 9.
  2. ↑ Sports Museum. In: City History Museum Leipzig. Accessed August 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Nabert , Nannette Jackowski, Wolf-Dietrich Rost : Sportforum Leipzig. History and future , PRO Leipzig, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 978-3-936508-02-4 , p. 100.
  4. ↑ Heinz-Jürgen Böhme (Red.): On Leipzig's treasures. On a discovery tour through museums, collections and gardens. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936508-16-X , p. 61.
  5. ↑ Volker Rodekamp (Ed.): In motion. Milestones in Leipzig's sports history. Exhibition in the City History Museum Leipzig . Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-910034-80-8 , p. 220.
  6. ↑ Volker Rodekamp (ed.): Sport: Schau. German Gymnastics Festival 1860 - 2002 , Leipzig City History Museum. Leipzig 2002, DNB 96455030X , p. 7.
  7. ↑ Lord of the rules. The football referee. Book accompanying the exhibition , ed. from the City History Museum Leipzig. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-89812-367-7 , p. 8, [200].
  8. ↑ Volker Rodekamp (Ed.): In motion. Milestones in Leipzig's sports history. Exhibition in the City History Museum Leipzig . Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-910034-80-8 , p. 238.
  9. ↑ Volker Rodekamp, ​​Gerlinde Rohr, Wolfgang Metz: Museum Concept Sportmuseum Leipzig 2007 (excerpts) . In: Sports Museum currently. Journal of the Förderverein Sächsisches Sportmuseum Leipzig eV 15 (2007), No. 2/3, ZDB -ID 1384612-7 , pp. 11-16.
  10. ^ Mathias Orbeck: Two million euros for the sports museum. Money flows into a new building. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung of August 22, 2018, p. 16 ( online in advance ).

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Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 5.8 "  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 47"  E