Weser Renaissance Museum
The Weser Renaissance Museum is a museum opened in 1986 for the art and cultural history of the 16th and early 17th centuries in North and West Germany with its headquarters in Lemgo (North Rhine-Westphalia).
founding
As part of the program for the protection and maintenance of the natural and cultural landscape in the Weser region, for which the states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Lower Saxony and Hesse were responsible, the Weser Renaissance Museum Schloss Brake was founded in 1986 . It was to be developed into a center of Renaissance research with a regional focus on north-west Germany. The fact that research is not limited to the Weser region results from the international influences to which the so-called Weser Renaissance owed its creation. At the same time, the cross-border road of the Weser Renaissance including the cycle path was opened.
The sponsors of the museum are the Landesverband Lippe , the Kreis Lippe , the old Hanseatic city of Lemgo and, since 1990 , the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe . A board of trustees - currently chaired by Oliver Wittke - with members from North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Bremen and Hesse, as well as the scientific advisory board, ensure cross-border connections on the one hand and provide advice on basic scientific work on the other.
Georg Ulrich Großmann was the founding director . With the opening exhibition "Renaissance in the Weser area" in 1989 and the "Year of the Weser Renaissance" proclaimed at the same time, the path for the beginning of the museum's continuous work was outlined, which consisted of the scientific inventory of Renaissance buildings in the Weser area in the form of building research . A research project (1990–2001) on the architecture, art and cultural history of the Renaissance in northern and western Germany, which has been pursuing an interdisciplinary approach since 1995, was affiliated .
collection
With Brake Castle, the renaissance castle of the former sovereign Simon VI. zur Lippe , in the historical surroundings of the former domain area, with the wash house and mill complex still preserved today, the Weser Renaissance Museum has one of its most important exhibits. After the construction work started in 1985, the monument offered the museum around 2,000 m² of exhibition space. The collection had to start from scratch, so to speak.
Today the museum's collection, which has been under the direction of Vera Lüpkes since 1995, provides an overview of the cultural history of the 16th and early 17th centuries. Selected objects from the fields of architecture, painting, graphics, furniture, festivities, table decorations , cuisine, religion, science and business illustrate the cultural diversity of the time. The paintings by Cornelis van Haarlem , Hans Vredeman de Vries , Joachim Beuckelaer , Hans Rottenhammer and Lucas Cranach the Elder are among those of high artistic standing.
In the so-called science tower, a chamber of art and curiosities and an alchemical laboratory are presented as a staging. The newly established chemistry laboratory enables groups of visitors to carry out experiments from the early days of the natural sciences. A three-dimensional anamorphosis by Yves Charnay is a unique installation in the world on the outside of the palace .
Exhibitions
Curated by Heiner Borggrefe, exhibitions on Moritz the Scholar (1997/98), Hans Vredeman de Vries (2002), Johannes Rottenhammer (2008) and the Reformation in the Weser area ("Open your mouth!", 2017) took place, curated by Michael Bischoff the exhibition “World Surveyor - The Golden Age of Cartography” (2015).
Weser barges
In 1999 a sensational find was recovered in the Mittelweser near Rohrsen , it was 2 Weser barges with cargo. After the salvage, they were preserved with the support of the German Maritime Museum and exhibited by the Weser Renaissance Museum until autumn 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Exhibition homepage , accessed on July 19, 2020
- ↑ Presentation at the NRW Foundation (accessed on February 28, 2010)
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 17 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 57 ″ E