Styrian Fire Brigade Museum
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Groß Sankt Florian 
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| architect | Eichinger or Knechtl |
| opening | 1995 |
| operator |
Association of the Styrian Fire Brigade Museum
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| management |
Anja Weisi Michelitsch
Katrin Knaß-Roßmann |
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The Styrian Fire Brigade Museum Art & Culture in Groß Sankt Florian is a fire brigade museum that presents the history and development of the Styrian fire brigades. It has existed since 1995. Since 1997, with the establishment of a gallery, art exhibitions have also been part of the program. The idea of "fire" & art - the explosive mixture "forms the basis of a unique museum concept that has made the museum known beyond the region.
history
The idea arose during the fire brigade pilgrimage in 1986, when firefighters from Styria met at this memorial site for their patron saint. The initiators, state parliament member Reinhold Purr , mayor Horst Puntigam and subsequently mayor Kurt Bauer were able to inspire both the Styrian fire brigade commander Karl Strablegg and governor Josef Krainer with this idea, and so in 1988 in Groß-St. Florian bought the listed Markushof as a future museum building and founded the Styrian Fire Brigade Museum Association in 1990 . On May 21, 1995, the museum opened after renovation and renovation work and in the first year it was frequented by more than 10,000 visitors.
The architectural concept comes from Manfred Wolff-Plottegg, the content of the museum concept from Harald Vetter. After a competition, the firm "Eichinger or Knechtl" was won for the museum architecture.
A major step was the establishment of a gallery, which from 1997 onwards offered space for art exhibitions. The international exhibition “Red in Russian Art” followed in 1999, showing works worth over 50 million euros from the State Museum in Saint Petersburg. Over 20,000 visitors visited the museum in three months. With the mixture of “fire brigade and art” the museum became known beyond the borders of Styria.
In 2004 the German Fire Brigade Museum , the Vorarlberger Museumswelt and the Styrian Fire Brigade Museum merged to form a museum triangle in order to use synergies - from the joint archiving program to the exchange of objects to the conception of special exhibitions. In 2007, the triangle was expanded to include the Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Museum St. Florian into a museum quartet.
In 2010, the museum was the first Austrian fire brigade museum to be awarded by the CTIF .
Collections
fire Department
The fire brigade museum collects realities across epochs and sometimes also nationally, manages them expertly and uses scientific methods to research and present the technical development and humanistic tasks of fire brigades. It also collects documents about the social, economic and social environment in which the fire brigade movement developed and in which it has to fulfill its task today. The development of fire fighting technology is shown in its essential elements from the beginnings to the present. This includes the whole range of fire-fighting activities of individuals, groups and associations, in the municipality, in the district, in the region and in the country. This gives visitors and researchers the opportunity to compare.
Helmets
Herbert Pascottini was chief fire chief of the Graz professional fire brigade until 1998. There he built up a historical exhibition collection over the years. At the same time, he has been collecting fire helmets from all over the world since the 1960s, including historical items. 70 helmets from this 300-piece collection were purchased by the Styrian Fire Brigade Museum and are presented in special exhibitions in the museum.
Roman villa Grünau
In today's municipality of Groß St. Florian, district of Grünau, the "Villa Grünau" was excavated from 1987 onwards over a period of ten years. This Roman villa dates from the 2nd century BC. And offered space for around 50 residents. It is not clear why they left the area in the 3rd century AD. The Grünau silver cup stands out among the finds . It is a cup with a diameter of approx. 9 cm, which shows a Roman chariot race in two reliefs on the outside. The inside of the mug is covered with gold.
Special exhibitions
- 1999 Red in Russian Art with works by Chagall , Malewitsch and Kandinsky .
- 2001 Ikona1 . In cooperation with the Diocesan Museum Graz , works from the Russian Museum St. Petersburg were shown: In the Diocesan Museum traditional icons , in the FM examples of the continuation of the icon tradition up to the modern age with Malevich and Kandinsky:
- 2002 Hortensia - shape and figure
- 2002 Ernst Fuchs - retrospective
- 2004 love, death and passion ; Russian genre painting , a. a. with five works by Ilja Repin .
- 2006 Todo Ecuador - Art from the Middle of the World6 . On display were loans from the Museo Banco Central in Quito , as well as from three artists from Ecuador, as well as around 125 archaeological exhibits that document the animistic worldview of the indigenous tradition of this country.
- 2010 Longing for nature - the landscape in the mirror of time . The development of the landscape from the Middle Ages to the present day is shown in 80 exhibits . Most of the pictures come from the show “Landscapes of Europe”, which was on view in the Upper Austrian State Museum on the occasion of Linz's 2009 Capital of Culture year. On show are pictures by Jan Brueghel the Elder. J. , Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Rudolf von Alt , Thomas Ender , Friedrich Gauermann , Emil Jakob Schindler , Marie Enger u. a. Contemporary Styrian artists are represented by Kitty Ackermann , Gerald Brettschuh , Josef Fink , Gisela Grill , Walter Köstenbauer , Gerald Naderer , Gottfried Pengg-Auheim , Hans Szyszkowitz and Günter Waldorf .
- 2012 The sun gate and the treasure from Lake Titicaca . On display were loans from the Museo Nacional de Arqueología de Bolivia in La Paz and the State Museums in Berlin , contemporary art by Bolivian artists, objects of folk culture and around 150 archaeological finds, including the Pariti ceramics, which were presented for the first time in Europe was seen.
- 2013 diving. Fascination and risk . In addition to the original closed-circuit breathing apparatus and the legendary "Rollei Marin" underwater camera from diving pioneer Hans Hass , the exhibition also provided a look at the underwater art of Manfred Wakolbinger and Andreas Franke .
- 2014 With the motto NATURraumKUNST the Styrian Fire Brigade Museum shows the two artists Gisela Grill and Gottfried Pengg-Auheim . With them, different modes of perception and thus different perspectives on the experience of nature are juxtaposed in two exhibitions. The fire brigade-specific special exhibition Fire and Rescue Services shows the historical development of the medical departments of the fire brigades using historical equipment that gives an insight into the assistance provided in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- 2014 RESCUE a "child" of the FIRE DEPARTMENT
- 2016 earned and fought - badges of honor, merit and achievement in the fire service
- 2017 Werner Berg - People and Landscape - The Weiz Area Fire Brigade Association through the ages
- 2017 fire. CULT. fire brigade - The fire brigade as a cultural medium in villages, markets and cities
- 2020 free play - Wolfgang Temmel and Hubert Matt
Individual evidence
- ↑ ZVR query with no.371386736 on September 25, 2017
- ↑ AUSTRIA'S FIRST CTIF FIRE MUSEUM in blue light from May 16, 2010, accessed on September 25, 2017
