Zeppelin Museum
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| place | Seestrasse 22, 88045 Friedrichshafen 
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| architect | Karl Hagenmayer |
| opening | 1996 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | more than 240,000 |
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Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen GmbH
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-050213 |
The Zeppelin Museum, opened in 1996, is located in Friedrichshafen , Baden-Württemberg . It is housed in the former port station directly on Lake Constance . It sees itself as a house in which living history is told using multimedia. The museum houses the world's largest collection on the history and technology of airship travel , a walk-in, true-to-original reconstruction of part of LZ 129 “Hindenburg”, and the art collection brings together the greatest masters in southern Germany from the Middle Ages to the modern era.
concept
The museum is designed under the dual framework of "technology and art". It makes it possible to get to know and experience these two subject areas together.
- Technology: The Zeppelin Collection
- Art: The art collection of the city of Friedrichshafen
tour
The media room
The tour of the museum begins in the media room, where film documentations of famous original recordings on the most important historical events are shown on a large screen. Films in 2D and 3D are available.
The Hindenburg - The reconstruction
The first large exhibition hall is dedicated to the history and fate of the LZ 129 Hindenburg , the “luxury liner of the skies”, which caught fire on May 6, 1937 during a landing maneuver in Lakehurst and crashed. The famous live report by Herbert Mossison, today a classic radio report, documents the dramatic accident in which 13 of the 36 passengers and 22 of the 61 crew members were killed. A man from the American ground team also died.
This exhibition hall shows how passengers experienced airship journeys to North and South America in the 1930s. The travel preparations that had to be made, the formalities and safety regulations, but also the luxury on board.
An important part of the exhibition is the critical illumination of the role of the zeppelins in National Socialism .
From the large exhibition hall, the visitor climbs into the faithful reconstruction of the passenger areas of the LZ 129 Hindenburg . The promenade deck in the Bauhaus design of the 1930s, original passenger cabins with hinged washbasins and toilet facilities are shown.
During the reconstruction, visitors will also get an insight into the day-to-day work of the on-board personnel. The people behind the technology are illuminated here: from cell attendants to radio operators . The largest preserved part of the wreckage of the LZ 129 Hindenburg is also exhibited here: the rudder bearing arm.
From the hot air balloon to the Zeppelin NT - the history of the airships
In the adjoining exhibition hall, which extends into the east wing of the museum, numerous, detailed models and original exhibits, films and photos chronologize the history of airship travel.
From the beginnings of the Montgolfier brothers with their hot air balloons at the end of the 18th century to the Zeppelin NT (New Technology) of our day, visitors can learn everything about the development of airship travel from its beginnings to the present day.
The visitor can find out about the trips across the Atlantic, the circumnavigation of the world or the polar trip. Unique exhibits tell stories, document the euphoria and illuminate the creation of legends about the giants of the air . Another important aspect is the development of the airships as a weapon of war and the missions during the First World War . Based on the historical facts, the question of the significance of the airship phenomenon in today's world is also asked.
The Zeppelin family - the company's history
Parallel to the history of the airship, the development of the Zeppelin Group is presented to this day. Up until 1918, the history of the airship and the company are closely linked. With the diversification of the company from 1920 onwards, the two lines of development diverged further and further, until they were told completely separately from one another at the end of rigid airship travel, shown in the east wing of the museum. The exhibited here period from 1933 to today focuses on the interdependence of the Zeppelin Group with the Nazi war economy , the destruction of Friedrichshafen as well as the reorganization and reconstruction of industrial enterprises since 1945. Of the large number of companies from the since 1908 Zeppelin airship arose , today the two global groups ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Zeppelin GmbH belong to the Zeppelin Foundation , which became the property of the city of Friedrichshafen in 1947.
The cabinet of curiosities - the devotional objects
In the Wunderkammer over 350 exhibits such as postage and postage stamps, souvenirs, medals, porcelain plates and cups, tin toys and all kinds of Zeppelin knick-knacks are on display.
The aviation laboratory - the experimental station
In the western wing of the building, aviation technology becomes clear and can be experienced for yourself. At numerous experiment stations, visitors can find out for themselves how buoyancy works, why the streamlined shape was developed and how airship gears work.
The art - the collection
The holdings of the municipal Lake Constance Museum from 1927 fell victim to air raids in 1944. All objects and the museum building were destroyed. The beginnings of the new collection go back to 1948. With the purchase of new works of art, it was supposed to build on the collecting activities of the pre-war period. The museum was reopened in 1957 in the new town hall building on Adenauer Platz with a new art collection consisting mainly of regional art. In 1996 the art collection was moved to the building of the old port station and became part of the Zeppelin Museum - Technology and Art.
With almost 4,000 works, the Zeppelin Museum has an art collection that gathers the greatest masters from southern Germany from the Middle Ages to the modern era and spans an arc to contemporary art. A special focus is on the works of artists who retreated to “Inner Emigration” during the Third Reich on Lake Constance, such as Otto Dix , Max Ackermann or Erich Heckel. The graphic collection forms the largest number in terms of numbers with around 2500 works.
Famous medieval carvers from the Ulm School , such as Hans Multscher and Jörg Stocker , or the Memmingen altar carver Ivo Strigel are also represented in the collection with key works.
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Baroque painting is another focus . The Zeppelin Museum has paintings by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld , one of the most important German painters of the second half of the 17th century, and Johann Heiß .
A special highlight of the collection is the estate of the photographer Andreas Feininger (1906–1999). It comprises 565 photo prints authorized by Feininger, 261 of which are hand-signed, several of his cameras, Kodak Super-XX films, film boxes and cartridges that Feininger worked with at the time. In addition, the archive contains numerous original editions of LIFE magazine, catalogs, books and photo manuals that Feininger has published.
The museum's unique art collection is shown in changing, non-permanent collection presentations. In combination with temporary exhibitions of contemporary art, these reflect the Zeppelin Museum's claim to actively integrate its own collection into current art theoretical and socio-political discourses.
Special exhibitions
- December 11, 2018 - May 12, 2019: Departure into the unknown. Classic modernism on Lake Constance. (100 works from the 1st half of the 20th century from our own collection).
- until April 19, 2020: Paths to abstraction. Marta Hoepffner and Willi Baumeister .
- until May 3, 2020: networking the world. Pioneering trips and air traffic across the Atlantic .
- May 29 - November 1, 2020: Beyond States. Beyond the boundaries of statehood .
- December 4, 2020 - April 11, 2021: Pleasant brushwork and a choppy sea. Art and literature on Lake Constance .
Archives and Library
According to the concept of “technology and art”, the archive and the library combine to form a research center on the subjects of aviation, aviation, art and art history.
The history of airship travel as well as company and personal history of the Zeppelin airships takes up a large part of the library. The trip reports (route descriptions) of the zeppelins are also stored in the archive.
The book holdings and documents are centrally located here and are available for all kinds of research.
Building development
The Zeppelin Museum is to be expanded by 7,000 square meters by 2035. The first step is to set up a separate art house for the art collection.
Museum shop and harbor restaurant
The museum shop with literature, photographs and Zeppelin souvenirs is located on the ground floor.
The harbor restaurant is accessible from the first floor of the museum and from outside. It is still in the same place as it used to be in the historic port station.
circle of friends
The Friends of the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen was founded in 1983 and has 1,600 members and friends all over the world. He was involved in the financing of the museum and holds 30 percent of the Zeppelin Museum GmbH. The Freundeskreis donated its collection of exhibits to the city of Friedrichshafen.
See also
- Zeppelin Museum Zeppelinheim
- Zeppelin Museum Meersburg with uniforms, radios and books about zeppelins.
- List of aviation museums
literature
(in chronological order)
- Wolfgang Meighörner (Ed.): Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen - Technology and Art. Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen 1996, ISBN 3-89549-001-6 .
- Wolfgang Meighörner (Ed.): Guide through the collections / Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen - technology and art. Fink, Lindenberg 1997, ISBN 3-931820-46-7 . (2nd, modified edition: Fink, Lindenberg 2002, ISBN 3-931820-46-7 ).
- Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen: Scientific yearbook. Zeppelin Museum / Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1998–2014, DNB 019337167 .
- Christoph Hahn, Siegmar Hohl (ed.): The great museum guide. Collections on art, culture, nature and technology in Germany. Bassermann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-8094-5013-9 , p. 204.
- Jürgen Bleibler among others: Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen. Labhard Medien, Konstanz 2014, ISBN 978-3-944741-04-8 .
- State Office for Museum Care Baden-Württemberg , Museum Association Baden-Württemberg eV (Hrsg.): Museums in Baden-Württemberg. 7th, completely revised edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-2629-4 , pp. 146-147.
Web links
- Official website of the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
- Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen . In: Bodensee.de
- Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen . In: Museum.de
- Zeppelin Museum Blog
- YouTube channel of the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
- Friends of the Zeppelin Museum eV
- Literature by and about Zeppelin Museum in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zeppelin-museum.de/de/museum/historie.php?artikel=4
- ↑ a b The museum on the Zeppelin Museum website; accessed on April 16, 2015
- ↑ Technology and Art . In: Bad weather tips . Special issue of the Bodensee Ferienzeitung . Edition 2/2009. Südkurier GmbH Medienhaus, Konstanz 2009, p. 10.
- ^ Concept and history ( memento of January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the Zeppelin Museum website; accessed on April 16, 2015
- ^ The reconstruction LZ 129 Hindenburg ( memento from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Zeppelin Museum; accessed on April 16, 2015
- ↑ The history of airship travel ( memento from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the Zeppelin Museum website; accessed on April 16, 2015
- ^ The history of the Zeppelin Group ( Memento from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the Zeppelin Museum website; accessed on April 16, 2015
- ^ The Zeppelin Chamber of Wonder ( Memento from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the Zeppelin Museum website; accessed on April 16, 2015
- ^ The experimental station ( Memento from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the Zeppelin Museum website; accessed on April 16, 2015
- ↑ Information sheet : How does the Zeppelin Museum get an art collection? Exhibition from May 4, 2018 to February 3, 2019: Property obliges. An art collection put to the test.
- ^ Siegmund Kopitzki: Between Seeidylle and Babylon Berlin. In: Südkurier , January 5, 2019.
- ↑ Wolfgang Rößler: The Zeppelin-Menges. In: Our country. Home calendar for Neckar Valley, Odenwald, building land and Kraichgau. 2015. Verlag Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung GmbH, Heidelberg 2014. ISBN 978-3-936866-57-5 . Pp. 261-264.
- ^ Kerstin Mommsen: Zeppelin Museum is being expanded. In: Südkurier , December 24, 2018.
- ^ Graf Zeppelin on his 175th birthday. A special publication by SÜDKURIER from May 14, 2013, p. 25.
- ↑ Katy Cuko: Zeppelin's heirs united in Friedrichshafen. In: Südkurier of February 26, 2016, supplement.