Karlsruhe City Museum
 Prinz-Max-Palais, in which the city museum is housed |
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Karlsruhe 
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Peter Pretsch
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In the City Museum Karlsruhe is Karlsruhe city's history in a permanent exhibition presented.
Since 1981 it has been housed in the city's cultural center Prinz-Max-Palais , which also houses the youth library of the city library , the Museum of Literature on the Upper Rhine and the headquarters of the Karlsruhe Literary Society .
Organizationally, the city museum is part of the city archives & historical museums department of the city's cultural office.
history
The origins of the Karlsruhe City Museum are closely linked to those of the Karlsruhe City Archives . In 1882, as part of the founding of the city archive, the city council asked the population to provide the city with old records, plans and descriptions. This resulted in a collection that was to serve as the basis for the first exhibitions. A department for this purpose was established for the first time in 1896 under the name of City History Collections . In the same year the first exhibitions on the city's history took place, at that time in the former waterworks building on Archivplatz.
As part of the preparations for the city's 200th anniversary in 1915, it was planned to present the city's history in a pavilion on the fairground . However, these plans were not carried out due to the First World War .
In the 1920s and 1930s, the city history collections were presented in the roof structure of Karlsruhe Palace . After the Second World War , a small urban history collection was exhibited in the city archive, initially in the Solms house and from 1960 in the savings bank building on the market square .
Since the opening of the Prinz-Max-Palais as a municipal cultural center in 1981, there has been a permanent exhibition on the history of Karlsruhe. After the Städtische Galerie moved out of the Prinz-Max-Palais in 1998, the entire first floor is used for a permanent exhibition.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlsruhe: City and Administration. Information and contact. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on August 23, 2015 .
- ^ Karlsruhe: City history. Permanent exhibition. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on September 22, 2015 .
Web links
- Stadtmuseum Karlsruhe in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
- Karlsruhe: city history. History of the city museum. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on September 22, 2015 .
- City Chronicle Karlsruhe. City Museum. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on September 22, 2015 .
- Karlsruhe: city history. Friends of Karlsruhe City History. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on August 23, 2015 .