Nordhorn City Museum
The Nordhorn City Museum is a museum on the urban and textile history of the Lower Saxony border town of Nordhorn . It has three historical exhibition locations in former buildings of the former Nordhorn textile production: the NINO building , the Povelturm and the old weaving mill Povel. At these three museum locations, visitors can gain an insight into textile history, textile culture and the history of the city of Nordhorn.
Locations and collections
Exhibition location 1: The NINO building
The textile history and textile culture of the former Nordhorn textile center can be found in the permanent exhibition “People, Fashion and Machines” opened in April 2011 in the NINO building. The former NINO spinning mill building, which is under monument protection, was extensively renovated in 2009 and transformed into a “Competence Center for Business”. With funds from the city of Nordhorn, the city museum operates an exhibition area of 1,200 square meters on the first floor.
Exhibition location 2: The Povelturm
The former "dust and water tower" of the Povel spinning mill, built in 1906, was also restored and rebuilt. In October 1996 the Nordhorn City Museum opened its first permanent exhibition here. The city museum itself was founded in 1994 on behalf of the city of Nordhorn by the “Museumsverein für die Grafschaft Bentheim e. V. “founded. The temporary exhibitions take you on a journey through the history of Nordhorn in the 19th and 20th centuries. The cocktail bar "Hoch 5" has been located on the top floors since May 2015.
Exhibition place 3: The old weaving mill (Povel)
The "old weaving mill Povel" from 1950 is one of the few remaining buildings on the site of the former Povel textile factory. In 1999 it was rebuilt and expanded to become the "Alte Weberei Cultural Center". In September 1999, the Nordhorn City Museum opened a further permanent exhibition with its “Museum Factory” in the former premises of the “Weberei-Vorwerk”.
The City Museum Collection
The city museum has an extensive photographic collection on the city history of Nordhorn in the 20th century. In addition, there are collections on textile industrial photography, fashion photography, textile design and textile marketing. The “Industrial Photography” collection contains 20,000 photographs from the textile factories NINO, Povel and Rawe. The “fashion photography” collection comprises around 80,000 fashion photographs, which were created between 1950 and 1990, primarily for NINO brand advertising. The “Textildesign” inventory contains over 1,000 historical items of clothing made from fabrics produced by NINO, Povel and Rawe, thousands of fabric sample coupons and 700 sample books from the NINO house collections sold between 1911 and 1994. The sample books document around 700,000 fabric samples from the NINO production. The “Textiles Marketing” inventory consists of a large number of collection catalogs, advertising posters, films and advertisements, fashion reports and promotional gifts. There is also an extensive inventory of historical magazines and fashion and women's magazines from 1950 to 1980, including "Stern", "Constanze", "Brigitte", "Film und Frau", "Petra" and "Burda-Moden".
history
In the founding year 1994, the city museum only had archive and exhibition rooms, but no historical exhibits. The Nordhorn City Museum now has an extensive and constantly growing collection of historical exhibits. Immediately after the bankruptcy of the once largest Nordhorn textile company NINO in 1994 and the cessation of production at the Rawe textile factory in 2001, the city museum was able to save a large number of materials on textile history from the offices, factory halls and company archives. Other companies, institutions and associations donated valuable objects and many private individuals from Nordhorn contributed memorabilia to the museum's collection. The city museum had around 500,000 euros available to set up the permanent exhibition in the NINO building. The main sponsors were the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the Grafschafter Sparkassenstiftung with an amount of 200,000 euros. Additional funds came from the city of Nordhorn, the Lower Saxony Foundation , the State of Lower Saxony, the County of Bentheim and a larger group of sponsors from the Grafschafter economy. In 2019 the museum was awarded the museum seal of approval from the Museumsverband Niedersachsen und Bremen eV.
Permanent exhibitions
Exhibition 1: “People, fashion and machines” - textile history and textile culture in NINO building construction
The exhibition exemplifies the textile history of Germany and Western Europe. You can see a selection from around 20,000 industrial photographs, from film and television reports, company magazines, paintings, employment certificates, documents and memorabilia. They enable an impressive look back into the working world of textile workers and the economic history of the Nordhorn textile center. The exhibition also includes photos by well-known industrial photographers such as Rudolf Bulla, Charles Compére, Otto Steinert , Ferdinand Tesch, Alfred Tritschler , Charles Wilp and Paul Wolff . “People, fashion and machines” is at the same time a homage to the fashion and advertising world of the Nordhorn textile producers. A selection of around 100,000 fashion photographs, fashion magazines, original items of clothing made from NINO, Povel and Rawe fabrics, sample books and sample coupons, collection catalogs and promotional items from the NINO, Povel and Rawe history come together on a journey through time Nordhorn textiles inspired the fashion world of the post-war decades. Many of the fashion photographs were taken in the course of brand advertising for clothing made from NINO fabrics, such as the famous "NINO-Flex coat". They illustrated fashion reports in magazines such as Vogue, Stern, Brigitte, Petra and the 1960s youth magazine Twen. Photo series by fashion photographers such as Helmut Newton , FC Gundlach , Guy Bourdin, Frank Horvat , Hans-Günther Kaufmann , Charlotte March , Christa Peters , Rico Puhlmann and Regina Relang are particularly important . There are also photos in which former star mannequins such as Ina Balke, Marie-Louise Steinbauer, Gloria Friedrich, Erika Schöning, Francoise Rubartelli or Uschi Obermaier present clothes made from NINO, Povel and Rawe fabrics. Visitors also learn that famous fashion designers such as Karl Lagerfeld , Daniel Hechter , Bessie Becker and Heinz Oestergaard once designed fabric designs and model clothing for the textile company NINO.
Exhibition 2: A journey through time through the city's history in the Povelturm
In the Povelturm, visitors go on a journey through time through Nordhorn's history from the 19th century to the present in regular changing exhibitions. The exhibition in the Povelturm offers a multitude of photographs, DVD film stations, paintings, postcards and posters of all kinds. Using the example of the city of Nordhorn, the exhibition takes up central stations and developments in German history.
Exhibition 3: The museum factory in the old weaving mill
“Textile production live” is the motto of the third permanent exhibition of the city museum in the museum factory in the old weaving mill. Here, former textile workers show visitors the entire production process of a textile factory with the help of functioning textile machines from the former factory rooms. The preparation of the raw material cotton, the production of a yarn in the spinning mill and the processing of thousands of yarn threads into a fabric in the weaving mill will be demonstrated. In the museum factory there is also a collage by the London-based artist Stefan Klimas, who comes from Nordhorn: The digital print on over 100 square meters of wall space gives an idea of the enormous dimensions of the former factory halls with their long machine lines.
Special exhibitions
The Nordhorn City Museum regularly organizes special exhibitions and events on the city's and textile history. The choices were:
- FC Gundlach in Brazil: fashion and reportage photography 1956–1969. June to September 2014, in cooperation with the “Stiftung FC Gundlach”, Hamburg
- Oneway / runway: paper clothes between advertising and fashion hype. October 2015, in cooperation with "Seminar for Cultural Anthropology of Textiles", TU Dortmund
- Christa Peters: Rediscovery of an (almost) forgotten photographer. October 2016 to March 2017
Museum educational programs
The Nordhorn City Museum offers general guided tours through its exhibitions and special programs for children and young people. The museum cooperates with the Nordhorn grammar school and the art school of the Nordhorn Municipal Gallery. In addition, the museum sees itself as a place of research. The specialist library, photo archive and the collection of the city museum are available to those interested in city and textile history.
Museum management
From 1994 to 2015 the Nordhorn historian Werner Straukamp was director of the Nordhorn City Museum. Historian Nadine Höppner has headed the museum since 2016.
literature
People, fashion and machines. Textile culture and textile history from Nordhorn. Museum catalog for the permanent exhibition in the NINO building, ed. from Stadtmuseum Nordhorn and Move-Verlag, Nordhorn 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Nine museums awarded a seal of approval by ndr.de on February 6, 2019
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 33.9 ″ N , 7 ° 4 ′ 16.9 ″ E