Tyrolean Folk Art Museum
The Tyrolean Folk Art Museum is located in the former Franciscan monastery next to the Innsbruck Court Church , in the immediate vicinity of the old town. It is one of the five houses of the Tyrolean State Museums .
history
In 1888 the Tyrolean Trade Association decided to set up a "Tyrolean Trade Museum" in Innsbruck : a collection of models to give suggestions and guidance to the Tyrolean handicrafts threatened by industrialization was to be created. Accordingly, the original collecting activity was primarily aimed at contemporary products of high quality craftsmanship.
Soon the collections were expanded to include “objects of old Tyrolean arts and crafts” and “products of Tyrolean domestic work”. In 1903 the Tyrolean Museum of Folk Art and Crafts was founded, which became the property of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. After a long search for a location, the company moved to the former Franciscan monastery. In 1926, the state of Tyrol took over the collections on the condition that a public museum be built. This was opened in 1929 by Federal President Wilhelm Miklas .
In 2007 the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum and the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum were incorporated into the Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH. The company is led by Wolfgang Meighörner , who is also the director of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum. A little later, the collection was redesigned and the house rebuilt accordingly. For the 80th anniversary of the museum, it was reopened on May 18, 2009.
management
- 1928–1938, 1945–1959: Josef Ringler
- 1939–1945: Gertrud Pesendorfer
- 1959–1979: Franz Colleselli
- 1980–2003: Hans Gschnitzer
- 2004–2014: Herlinde Menardi
- since 2015: Karl C. Berger
Collections
Most of the collections were bought before the First World War . The collection area was the historical county of Tyrol, which in addition to today's state of Tyrol also included South Tyrol , Trentino and the Ladin valleys around the Dolomites, which today belong to the Italian province of Belluno . This area is still considered in purchases today. In the 1930s, objects from the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum were exchanged.
The objects come from rural, but above all from bourgeois and aristocratic classes of the population. The focus is on handicrafts, arts and crafts, domestic industry, popular piety, customs (masks and costumes). The museum is particularly well-known for its extensive collection of Christmas and Easter cribs as well as for its rooms , most of which come from aristocratic surroundings.
Redesign in 2009
Based on a newly developed concept, the exhibition was redesigned and reopened in 2009. Since then, visitors have received information on selected objects using personal digital assistants . Since then, Lucifer , the dazzling figure from the Nikolausspiel , has been seducing through the exhibition: as a questioning provocateur who opens up new perspectives.
An area on the first floor, above the cloister, is called the Pralles Jahr and shows a cycle of church festivals, folk customs, celebrations and work throughout the year. The show Precarious Life on the second floor shows how earlier societies dealt with the suffering, hardships and fears of life, coping with everyday life through blessings and magic, requests and thanks. A special study collection deals with the domains of house industry, work, belongings and inheritance. Under the motto Being and Appearance , a photo studio reconstructed according to historical models traces the romantic transfiguration of folk costumes: 48 hand-carved figurines provide an insight into the idealization of clothing that was already discarded in everyday life around 1900.
A multimedia show now deals with the court church adjoining the museum, and a reopened former access from the monastery to the rood screen of the church connects the two buildings in terms of content.
As in the past, the ground floor is mainly dedicated to the cribs. The paneled rooms from the Gothic , Renaissance , Baroque and Rococo periods on the first and second floors , which were built in until 1929, also remained unchanged .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '7 " N , 11 ° 23' 44" E