City Museum Tübingen
The Tübingen City Museum , which emerged from the “City Collections”, is housed in a former grain store that is over 500 years old at Kornhausstrasse 10 in the old town of Tübingen . In the museum there is a permanent city history exhibition, which gives an overview of the city history of Tübingen over the last 600 years, as well as a permanent exhibition on the silhouette artist Lotte Reiniger . In addition, the museum shows several temporary exhibitions each year, each of which has a comprehensive catalog.
history
The municipal collections in Tübingen were created in the early 1890s. It is unusual that this was not only the idea of the then mayor Julius Gös , but that he personally took care of the collection. It was apparently his concern to document the appearance of “his” city on vedute for posterity. He established contacts with antique dealers and systematically bought the very rare views of Johann Christian Partzschefeldt , Carl Baumann , Ludwig August Helvig , Carl Dörr , Jacob Kull and many other artists , which were still available at the time . The objects were initially collected in the town hall. At the end of April 1897, the first exhibition of the collection was presented to visitors in the town hall. After Gös's death, the collection was expanded - paintings and various objects were added. Since the town hall did not have enough space for the collection, it was moved to the south wing of Hohentübingen Castle, above the castle chapel. Since 1931 the collection was taken care of by the Art and Antiquity Association founded in 1911, and during this time the collection established itself as an independent institution.
Since the late 1960s, the municipal collections have had their headquarters in the Theodor-Haering-Haus in Neckarhalde 31. On January 24, 1989, a fire broke out in the house, as a result of which the collection of the painter Theodor Schüz was partially destroyed. The constantly growing collections were converted into the city museum under Thomas Schuler , which was located in 1991 in the Kornhaus, which was converted for this purpose. The Theodor-Haering-Haus is still used by the museum as a depot.
Museum offer
The city museum is not just a museum of city history. It tries to interest the public in a wide range of topics through temporary exhibitions and thus do justice to its location in a university town.
Division of the building
- Ground floor: changing exhibitions (e.g .: 2008, "Vocabulary. Collecting and Finding Words". In cooperation with the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT )
- Second floor: Lotte Reiniger “The world in light and shadow”.
- Third and fourth floors: City history exhibition
Temporary exhibitions
Between four and six different temporary exhibitions take place each year. The topics are documented in the museum archive.
The special object
Every month there is "a special object" to see right next to the entrance door - visible from the outside. It is documented in the object archive for a year.
City history collection
The topics of the “city history walk” are: Town Hall - Castle - Collegiate Church - Upper Town - Lower Town - Market Square - University Quarter - Student Houses - Crafts Quarter - Industrial Quarter - Places of political and cultural commitment.
Museum education
There is an extensive range of museum educational activities. The museum is also open in the mornings by arrangement.
Cleaner collection
The city museum is showing a permanent exhibition on the silhouette artist Lotte Reiniger with the title “The world in light and shadow. Paper cutting, shadow theater, silhouette film ”. Lotte Reiniger also used her craftsmanship in paper cutting for her silhouette films. The first full-length animated film in history, " The Adventures of Prince Achmed ", which was produced between 1923 and 1926, made it world famous.
Provenance research
The city museum has been systematically conducting provenance research since 2015 . In this context, it examines the origin of its collection objects, in particular to whom they once belonged. The focus is on possible cultural assets that were confiscated during the Nazi era. Some objects in the city museum's collection have suspicious origins. This involves, for example, Jewish previous owners or art dealers who have demonstrably traded in looted property. However, the entire provenance of many objects has not yet been identified. It is therefore possible that, with further clarification, a suspicion either corroborates or turns out to be irrelevant. The conclusion is the return of once stolen objects to the descendants of the previous owner. This has already happened for a Torah pane, a cloth with a Hebrew inscription and a foundation stone of the Tübingen synagogue.
Association of Friends of the City Museum
The “Association of Friends of the City Museum” is a kind of successor organization to the Art and Antiquity Association, which was dissolved in 1940 and which collected historical evidence for a Tübingen local museum and donated this collection to the city. When it was decided in 1983 to appropriately accommodate the municipal collections in the Kornhaus, the “Association of Friends of the City Museum” was founded.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evamarie Blattner: Collecting as a form of practical remembering ...
- ^ Tübingen city chronicle from 1989
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.tuebingen.de/121.html
- ^ Alfred Happ: Lotte Reiniger 1899−1981. Creator of a new silhouette art . Kulturamt, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-910090-56-7 ; Susanne Marschall, Rada Bieberstein: Lotte Reiniger - Dance of the Shadows [Image sound carrier]: Portrait of the pioneer of artistic animation , Berlin: Absolut Medien, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8488-3002-2 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Evamarie Blattner: Collecting as a form of practical memory. At the beginning of the municipal collections . In: Stadtbild - Weltbild. Tübingen city views from the 16th to 19th centuries , ed. by Evamarie Blattner and Karlheinz Wiegmann, Stadtmuseum Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-910090-96-5 , pp. 134–142.
- News from the city museum. Announcements from the Friends of the City Museum Tübingen eV 1/1986 - 11/1995 (discontinued).
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '16.2 " N , 9 ° 3' 12.3" E