Hungarian German Museum

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The Ungarndeutsche Museum (also Hungarian German State Museum , Hungarian Német Nemzetiségi Múzeum ) in Tata ( Hungary ) uses a collection concept from 1972 to collect, store and convey the culture of the German-speaking population groups who have ever lived in Hungary or are currently living in Hungary. in front. It has an ethnographic and historical collection. Organizationally, the institution is subordinate to the Kuny Domokos Múzeum (City Museum) .

The building

The museum was once housed in the Miklós Mill. It has been in the Nepomucenus mill since 1983. The former water mill was built in 1758. Among the first owners was the master builder of the Esterházy family , Jakob Fellner . The mill is named after its patron saint, Johannes von Nepomuk . The wooden statue of the saint of simple beauty adorns the front gable of the house. The historically faithful reconstructed mill and the history of the mill are shown in an animated film in the museum.

The main building houses the photo, audio and document archives, library holdings and offices. The museum has around 500 m² of exhibition space on three floors. The warehouse is located in the outbuilding, in the former granary.

The exhibition

We and the others - this is the name of the museum's new permanent exhibition that opened in 2015. It not only presents the culture of the Hungarian Germans , but rather shows how prejudices arise and how the majority society determines the minority culture . The Stories room shows the millennia-old relationship between the state and different ethnic groups. A time stream of history meanders along the images. The island, dams and split-off river arms symbolically point to the historical events. There are memorabilia opposite the story. These were donated to the museum by private individuals and communities. They are considered symbols of belonging to the German minority. The Objects room presents exhibits from the collection that were typically German in the past.

Permanent exhibitions

  • 1973 first permanent exhibition: German settlers in Komorn County (Miklós mill)
  • 1985 second permanent exhibition: The Great Swabian Train (Nepomucenus Mill)
  • 1997 third permanent exhibition: 1100 years of coexistence: Germans in Hungary from the conquest to the present
  • 2015 fourth permanent exhibition: We and the others

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Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 3 ″  N , 18 ° 19 ′ 26 ″  E