City Museum Münster

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The city museum in the Salzhof

The Münster City Museum deals with the history of the Westphalian city ​​of Münster .

history

The former building now houses the Museum of Lacquer Art

The city museum was founded in 1979 and was initially located in the Gerling Villa on Windthorststrasse . The opening took place on August 31, 1982 with the exhibition "The Anabaptists" . Since this building turned out to be too small for the museum to operate, the vacant Althoff department store on Salzstrasse was expanded to become the new location of the museum in 1989 based on designs by architects Rainer Maria Kresing and Christoph von Hausen . In addition to the museum, there are also numerous shops here. The facade of the old department store was preserved and is a listed building. The Museum of Lacquer Art is now located in the Gerling Villa .

Permanent collection

The permanent exhibition is on the first and second floors. In a total of 33 cabinets on a total area of ​​2,500 m² on the first floor, the time from the founding of the city to the end of the prince-bishopric in the 19th century and in the second the modern times are thematically dealt with as documented with evidence. The development of the city is illustrated with city and building models, city life is presented through the historic Café Müller from the 1950s and living with the exhibited room by the Münster Art Nouveau artist Bernhard Pankok . After the city museum was founded, a collection of the baroque painter Johann Bockhorst was created with the support of sponsors . Bockhorst was born in Münster around 1604, in Antwerp a close collaborator of Peter Paul Rubens and a friend of Anthony van Dyck . His work is now part of the museum's collection, which on the occasion of the 330th year of his death was again on display in Münster in 1998, after only a few of his works have been preserved as a result of the Second World War .

Special exhibitions

In addition to the permanent exhibition, the city museum organizes numerous special exhibitions on current topics as well as on special anniversaries. In recent years these have included exhibitions on excavations on Stubengasse and the inland port, which has changed its appearance significantly in the last few years of the 20th century and is now used as a cultural zone with pubs and studios for artists. Other exhibitions deal with the 100th anniversary of Stadtwerke Münster , the 1200th anniversary of the city's foundation by Liudger and the founder of the zoo , Hermann Landois . There were also photo exhibitions about the fat years of the 1950s and the bitter years after the Second World War. There was also an exhibition on the 40th anniversary of the Rolling Stones ' first German concert , which took place on September 11, 1965 in the Münsterland hall .

Branch

The kennel

The Zwinger on the promenade is a branch of the Münster City Museum . Originally built as a defense tower in the years to 1525/1528, the Zwinger later served as a prison, painting studio, Cultural Center of the Hitler Youth and World War II temporarily again as a prison and execution site of the Secret State Police (Gestapo). In 1987 and 1997 it was used as a memorial in the context of the Skulptur.Projekte in memory of the victims of violence in Münster, the victims of war violence and the persecution of innocent people, especially the inhuman criminal justice system and the terror against political opponents, members of minorities and prisoners of war expanded during the Nazi regime . For this, the artist Rebecca Horn realized the sculpture The Opposite Concert .

Visitor numbers

The museum had more than 100,000 visitors in 2005. In 2011 113,000 visitors were counted and, according to Dr. Barbara Rommé, director of the city museum, achieved "the third best result since the museum was founded in 1989" . The museum again recorded more than 100,000 guests in 2013, making it the most visited museum in Münster.

carrier

The museum is supported by the city of Münster. Financial support is also provided by the “Förderverein Stadtmuseum Münster e. V. “(until 2008 Association of Münster-Museum eV). This has u. a. had numerous architectural models made and financed the purchase of several hundred original objects for the museum's collection.

Web links

Commons : Stadtmuseum Münster  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Balance for 2011: Over 100,000 visitors to the Stadtmuseum , Münster, January 11, 2012
  2. ↑ buy + save: Over 100,000 visitors: Stadtmuseum was able to assert itself as the museum with the most visitors in 2013 , Münster, Münster, January 15, 2014

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 38.6 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 59"  E