Styrian Folklore Museum
The Folklore Museum in Graz is a small museum that aims to process and document the folk culture of Styria .
history
The museum emerged from a small collection of individual folklore items that were brought together by the Landesmuseum Joanneum from 1895 , today's Universalmuseum Joanneum . In 1913 Viktor Geramb founded the Folklore Museum in Paulustorgasse with these exhibits . Geramb's museum concept at the time envisaged that the exhibits should be integrated into a self-contained environment. Accordingly, he designed the individual rooms as total works of art. Some of his outstanding achievements were:
- A “smoking room” on a farm in the Packalpe , which has been proven to have been in operation since 1520 , was completely built in the museum in 1914 .
- “Trachtensaal”: 42 life-size figures present traditional costumes in the Styrian region from Roman times to the beginning of the 20th century . This room was created in the 1930s .
After it was closed for repairs from 1989 to 2003 , the actual showpieces are presented, the building and the rooms themselves are sober, white-furnished rooms.
The folk culture of Styria is presented in three main areas:
- Living: Furniture, tools and models and pictures of houses from the rural and middle-class population show the development since the late Middle Ages.
- Dress: The development of Styrian traditional costumes is shown from the Roman era to the new, modern traditional costume trends of the present.
- Faith: Religious and secular rituals and paraphernalia and their development over time are presented.
The "smoking room" and the "costume room" are still part of the exhibition.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 30.3 " N , 15 ° 26 ′ 23.6" E