Wendish Museum

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Wendish Museum Cottbus
Serbski muzej Chóśebuz
Wendisches Museum-Cottbus.JPG
The museum building
Data
place cottbus
Art
Local museum
opening 1908
management
Curator: Werner Meschkank (Werner Měškank)
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-903117

The Wendish Museum , in Lower Sorbian Serbski muzej , is the central museum for the culture and history of the Sorbs / Wends in Lower Lusatia and is located in the city of Cottbus .

The museum was closed on January 1, 2016 as part of a renovation phase. Alternatively, a special exhibition on the history and culture of the Sorbs / Wends in Lower Lusatia is shown in the Cottbus City Museum . The renovation work was completed in 2019, the reopening will take place with a new permanent exhibition in 2020.

history

The communal cultural history collection has existed in its current form since 1994, but goes back to a Wendish farmhouse parlor set up in the Cottbus local history museum in 1908, which existed until the Nazi era . The exhibits there were lost after the Second World War .

In 1980, in the GDR , a museum for Lower Sorbian literature was set up in Branitz Castle, initially as a permanent exhibition and then as a traveling exhibition . A short time later this collection was put into storage .

After 1985, a new permanent exhibition was designed from the basic inventory in the magazine. The aim was to create a Sorbian museum exhibition in which not only literature but also music, folklore and the visual arts were to be shown. A newspaper and book collection was to research available for the general public to this the Sorbian traditions to bring closer.

Various efforts in the 1980s and after reunification finally led to the opening of today's museum on June 3, 1994.

In addition to the permanent exhibition, over 40 special exhibitions on various topics have been shown in the 15 exhibition rooms of the local history museum. All exhibitions are bilingual, German-Sorbian ( Wendish ).

The museum houses the largest collection of Lower Sorbian costumes , also known as Spreewald costume .

literature

  • Werner Meschkank: Serbski muzej w Chośebuzu. The Wendish Museum in Cottbus. Wendisches Museum, Cottbus, 1996. (Small museum guide in Lower Sorbian / German).
  • Albrecht Lange: The costume of the Hanoverian Wendland. Drastwa Polobskich Slovianov w Hannoverskej. Published by the Wendisches Museum Cottbus, text editor Martina Noack, picture editor Michael Kablitz.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Meschkank On the terms "Sorbs" and "Wends" ( Memento from March 12, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ).
  2. ↑ Wendisches Museum , accessed on October 16, 2018.
  3. ^ Chronicle of the Wendish Museum Cottbus ( Memento from February 1, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 35.4 "  N , 14 ° 20 ′ 4.1"  E