Toggenburg Museum

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Toggenburg Museum in Lichtensteig
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The Toggenburg Museum in Lichtensteig preserves, documents and provides evidence of the cultural heritage of the old Toggenburg landscape . In its permanent exhibition and in regular special exhibitions, it presents the history of the Thur and Necker Valley from its beginnings to the present day.

history

Tavern sign "Zum Mohren", Wattwil 1798

The Toggenburg Museum goes back to a temporary exhibition that history buffs from Lichtensteig organized in 1895. In 1920 the exhibition moved from the old office building to its current location, the stately merchant's house of the cloth merchants Leiter and Lorenz in the old town.

Sponsorship

The local community Lichtensteig exercises the sponsorship. The patronage lies with 17 political communities of the historical Toggenburg from Wildhaus to Flawil .

Exhibitions

Writer Ulrich Bräker , portrait, around 1793

As one of the oldest regional museums in Switzerland, the Toggenburg Museum presents exhibits from its collection in eleven rooms on three floors. An archive with manuscripts and a reference library with scientific holdings complete the museum. The main focus of his permanent exhibition is the early settlement of the valley by cave bear hunters, the changing influence of the Counts of Toggenburg and the prince-abbots of St. Gallen, the development of the textile industry and alpine crafts. There is also furniture, typical musical instruments such as the Toggenburg neck zither and the Toggenburg house organ as well as coats of arms. Artists such as Willy Fries , Albert Edelmann , Anna Barbara Aemisegger-Giezendanner (“ Babeli Giezendanner ”) are represented in the Toggenburg Museum with paintings, drawings and cattle stripes.

In its special exhibitions, the Toggenburg Museum recently dealt with “ Jost Bürgi - simply brilliant!” and “Hochstig - Brautfuder, Funkensingen and other wedding customs” and “Z 'Esse gits nur gsottes Gräs - A Toggenburg boy tells of the last famine”. The show “Art and Kitchen” will run until 2019 on the life and work of “Babeli Giezendanners” and Susanna Müller (“Das industrige Hausmütterchen”). The curator is the ethnologist and folklorist Christelle Wick.

literature

  • Hans Büchler : 100 Years of the Toggenburg Museum: History and Outlook. In: Toggenburger Annalen 1997, pp. 111–116.
  • Ernst Roggwiller: The Toggenburg centenary in Lichtensteig. In: Schweizer Illustrierte , Vol. 7, 1903, pp. 428–431. ( e-periodica )
  • Christelle Wick: Z'esse's only good grass. In: Toggenburger Tagblatt , August 25, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Toggenburger Museum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '25.1 "  N , 9 ° 5' 14.6"  E ; CH1903:  724,633  /  242727