City Museum Melk
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 35.5 ″ N , 15 ° 19 ′ 43.7 ″ E The Melk City Museum in Melk in Lower Austria , with the 6500-year-old exhibit Idol with a bird's face, is a sight of the Wachau .
history
At the municipal council meeting on October 5, 1879, it was decided to set up a museum in Melk and in May 1880 a few showcases were set up in the town hall hall and "provided with the existing antique objects and the few existing old writings". Under the direction of the pharmacist Franz Xaver Linde (1937–1903) the museum gained in importance. As early as 1903 a printed “directory of the objects in the municipal museum in Melk” was published, in which 420 objects were described on 22 pages.
After Linde's death in 1903, his son Franz X. Linde jun. (1867–1929) at the museum and began a lively prehistoric collection, which was significantly expanded with the objects found by the first rector of the Melk Josef Aichinger seminar. Since the town hall could no longer hold the exhibits , the museum moved to an outbuilding of the pharmacy. Several Roman stones on the facade of the house remind of this time. After the pharmacy took up the museum space in 1926, the holdings were temporarily deposited in Melk Abbey and re-arranged in the brewery in 1931. During this time, numerous archaeological excavations were carried out in the Melk area with the Federal Monuments Office, of which those at Höpfenbühel and in the Dober sand pit should be highlighted. The museum's holdings had not suffered any losses during the war.
On July 13, 1946, it was reopened in the brewery in the presence of the Russian commander Chromoff. Barely a year later, the museum again had to be temporarily stored in Melk Abbey. As a result, Franz Hutter (1897–1975) took on the museum. He succeeded in adapting suitable rooms for the museum in the Fürnbergische Posthaus. On November 21, 1959, the “Melker Heimatmuseum” was officially opened by Governor Steinböck. Between 1973 and 1984 the museum did not have adequate supervision and guidance, so that the holdings were seriously neglected.
Museum Association
In 1984 Anton Harrer was appointed curator . Through his initiative, the Melk Culture and Museum Association was established in 1985, which has since taken care of the museum's interests intensively and, through numerous exhibitions and events, has given the Melk City Museum a new positive rating. In addition to museum activities, archival management is also of great importance, with the documentation of contemporary history being given a lot of space. The photo and slide collection has been expanded in a targeted manner and comprises over 30,000 recordings, most of which are computerized. Image archiving has been digital since 2006.
Literature (selection)
- Judith Brocza (1989): The museums of the Melk district. (Diploma thesis Vienna 1989)
- Hans Ing. Ebner (1933–1953): Excerpts from diary, manuscript StA. Melk.
- Raimund Freudenschuss (1936): The Melker Heimatmuseum. In: St. Pöltner Zeitung July 30, 1936.
- Franz Hampl (1959): The importance of the museum. In: Melker Kulturbrief 1959 vol. 48.
- Anton Harrer (1985): Local History Museum. In: Melker cultural contributions issue 7/1985.
- Anton Harrer (1986): The prehistoric collection of the local history museum In: Melker cultural contributions, issue 8/1986.
- Anton Harrer (1990): Over decades. In: Kultur- und Museumsverein Melk, 1985 - 1990. Series of publications by the Kultur- und Museumsverein Melk. 1990.
- Franz Hutter (1959): History of the Melk Local History Museum. In: Melker Kulturbrief 1959 vol. 48.
- Franz Xaver Linde (1903): The Museum of the City of Melk. First list of objects in the Melk Municipal Museum. Melk 1903.
- Margarethe Pekarek (1990): Chronicle of the KMV-Melk 1985 - 1990. In: Kultur- und Museumsverein Melk, 1985 - 1990. Series of publications by the Kultur- und Museumsverein Melk. 1990.
- Martin Vogg (1996): The slightly different museum. In: City Life. Issue 7/1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Linde, Franz Xaver (1890): Chronicle of the Melk market. Melk 1890, p. 215.