City Museum Erlangen

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City Museum Erlangen
Old Town Hall (2010)
City Museum Erlangen in the Old Town Hall (2010)
Data
place Erlangen
Martin-Luther-Platz 9 Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 12.9 ″  EWorld icon
Art
Cultural history museum
opening 1919/1964
management
Brigitte Korn
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-043210

The City Museum Erlangen is an exhibition house that deals with the city ​​history of Erlangen as well as other, changing topics. Since 1964 it has been housed in the listed Old Town Hall , a stately baroque building from 1733/40.

history

The beginnings of the city museum go back to the Germanisches Museum Association founded in 1865. His aim was to collect “antiquities”, especially from the area of ​​traditional handicrafts . Another important impetus was the establishment of the city ​​archive in 1885. After an exhibition on the 100th anniversary of Erlangen's membership in Bavaria in 1810, the Erlanger Verkehrsverein began collecting work for a local history museum , which was opened in 1919 in the water tower (previously the university's detention center ) the palace garden was opened. In 1923 an exhibition room was added in the old town hall.

After several renovations and the amalgamation of all collections, the city museum was re-established and reopened under its current name in 1964. After the Erlangen city council established a museum advisory board in 1982, the museum complex, which since then also includes other buildings between Martin-Luther-Platz, Altstädter Kirchenplatz, Cedernstraße and Neuer Straße, was renovated and renovated according to the concept of a “city history center” between 1985 and 1993 the exhibition area expanded to around 1000 square meters. Between 1989 and 1993 the historic old town hall was renovated. Between 1994 and 2002 the city history collection was redesigned.

description

The museum has a total of around 1000 square meters of exhibition space. Around 650 square meters of this is taken up by the permanent collection of city history. This comprises the five sections “Prehistory in the Erlangen area”, “The old town Erlangen 1002–1706”, “Neustadt” (1686–1810), “Industrialization” (1830–1950) and “Urban society and politics” (1870–1960). The collection of the city museum on the trades of the hosiery , glove maker , white tanner and carpet weaver practiced by the Huguenots is of supraregional importance .

In addition, changing special exhibitions are shown on around 350 square meters. Each year, these cover several topics from the areas of urban history, cultural and contemporary history , the history of science , in particular the history of medicine , and the visual arts . These exhibitions are flanked by a range of educational museum offers that are particularly tailored to schools.

literature

Web links

Commons : Stadtmuseum Erlangen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Christoph Friedrich: City Museum. In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.
  2. a b City of Erlangen: City Museum Erlangen . Online at www.erlangen.de ; accessed on April 1, 2018.