City Museum Villach

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The Villach City Museum is housed in the former Palais Crusiz in Widmanngasse in Villach .

history

The museum was founded in 1873 by the builder Carl Andreas Picco, who made his collection available to the museum. After several changing locations, the museum found its home in a historic building on Kaiser-Joseph-Platz in 1935. This was destroyed by bombs in 1945, but the collections were relocated in good time. The museum has been at its current location in Widmanngasse since 1960.

Museum building

The former Palais Crusitz is a three-storey, nine-axis building, the core of which dates from the second half of the 16th century. Some of the house has spear cap barrels with plastered ridges and three-story arcades on the courtyard side. The bent, late historical facade was added by AC Candoloni around 1890. The Renaissance portal in the inner courtyard from 1530/1540 was moved here from the former Engelhof in Perau in 1971. The former city wall with a reconstructed battlement forms the end of the inner courtyard .

In the immediate vicinity is the Monument of Names , which commemorates the victims of National Socialism .

collection

The museum is dedicated to the history of the Villach area.

A focus is on the Neolithic settlement finds from Kanzianiberg , the Bronze Hallstatt finds from the Napoleon meadow via Warmbad-Villach and Roman finds from the urban area as well as the early medieval graves from Judendorf and Völkendorf.

The museum has the following paintings:

  • Maria with the Saints James, Dorothea, Barbara and Matthias by Master Friedrich von Villach (around 1450)
  • The six saints table with the saints Kunigunde and Lucia, Leonhard, Nikolaus, Bartholomäus and Briccius by Thomas von Villach (1470/1480)
  • Landscape pictures by Jakob Canciani
  • Painting by the brothers Josef and Ludwig Willroider
  • Works of painting of the 20th century.

The museum library has a registers collection and a microfilm and photo archive.

Others

The museum publishes a yearbook with the title “News from Alt-Villach”.

In 2017 it was awarded the Austrian Museum Seal of Approval.

The museum operates as branch offices:

  • The relief of Carinthia in the Schillerpark. The 182 m² (19.5 m × 9.35 m) large topographic landscape representation on a length scale of 1: 10,000 and height scale 1: 5,000 (double elevation) was created between 1889 and 1913, and shows Carinthia and the neighboring regions Exhibition building specially constructed in 1913, accessible from May to October.
  • The showroom in Villach Castle
  • The viewing platform at the city ​​parish tower

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literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 1025.

Web links

Commons : Villach Stadtmuseum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Seal of approval: Appreciation for modern museum work. In: villach.at. City of Villach, October 17, 2017, accessed on December 13, 2017 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 36 '48 "  N , 13 ° 50' 39.7"  E