Badisches Landesmuseum Explained

Baden State Museum
Native Name:Badisches Landesmuseum
Coordinates:49.0136°N 8.4044°W
Established:1921, Reopened in 1959
Location:Karlsruhe,
Type:Museum of culture, art and regional history
Visitors:257.166 (2019)[1]
Executive Director:Eckart Köhne
Owner:State of Baden-Württemberg
Website:www.landesmuseum.de

The Baden State Museum (German: Badisches Landesmuseum) in Karlsruhe is the large cultural, art and regional history museum of the Baden region of Baden-Württemberg . With its globally significant collections, representing more than 50,000 years of international cultural history, it conveys history and historical living environments. Its collections range from prehistory and early history to the Middle Ages and the 21st century. The museum was founded in 1919 and opened in 1921 in the rooms of Karlsruhe Palace.

History

In 1873, Frederick I. had a Collection Building built on Friedrichsplatz for his library and his extensive collections. Here they were open to the public as the Grand Ducal Collection of Antiquities and Ethnology in Karlsruhe. After the Abdication of the Grand Duke of Baden Frederick II., the Karlsruhe Palace, located in the center of the baroque city complex, was taken over by the Baden state in 1918 and designated as the seat of a newly founded cultural history museum.

The museum was founded in 1919 and was created by merging the "antiquities collection" with the Baden Museum of Decorative Arts.[2] It was opened on July 24, 1921 in the rooms of the palace. Hans Rott was the first director until 1938. In 1936, the ‘Baden coin collection‘(Badisches Münzkabinett) [3] was incorporated into the museum. The director was Friedrich Wielandt until 1971. Karlsruhe Palace was destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War. Most of the museum's holdings were saved. Reconstruction of the burnt-out palace began in 1955. The exterior was faithfully reconstructed, while the interior was designed to meet the requirements of a modern museum. The Baden State Museum was reopened in 1959 and the castle café opened in 1965. Jürgen Thimme was the first archaeologist to head the antiquities department from 1959 to 1982. From 1992, under the direction of Harald Siebenmorgen, all fifteen departments of the Baden State Museum were successively completely refurnished according to a concept based on contextualization and staging of the objects, most recently the "World Culture" department in 2013. All departments were made accessible through collection guides. From 1992, large museum festivals were organized, and the Baden State Museum was opened to a wide audience through numerous other museum education and cultural mediation measures. A high-calibre and closely timed special exhibition program, which was partly based on the newly concluded cooperation agreements with Tunisia, Algeria and other Mediterranean countries, attracted international attention. The number of visitors quadrupled. In 2009, the Baden State Museum Karlsruhe had around 300,000 visitors.[4] As a pilot project, the Baden State Museum was the first museum in Baden-Württemberg to introduce a business management structure with a commercial directorate, thus gaining new scope for action.In 2014, the German Museum of Music Automatons in Bruchsal and the museum in Salem were opened with new concepts.

At the end of April 2017, a diadem of Grand Duchess Hilda of Baden made of gold and platinum by the Baden court jeweler Schmidt-Staub around 1907 and set with 367 diamonds was stolen from a display case in the throne room on the second floor of the museum. [5] As it became known in June 2017, a theft had already taken place in October 2016. It was an ivory sculpture from 1620 worth 500,000 euros by the sculptor Leonhard Kern. It shows the Roman woman Fulvia with the severed head of Cicero. The public prosecutor saw no connection between the two incidents.[6]

In 2019, the museum celebrated its 100th anniversary with a large museum festival.

From 2027, the museum in Karlsruhe Palace will be closed for several years due to a general refurbishment. This is necessary as much of the building technology dates back to the 1960s.[7]

Directors

Collection exhibitions

The various collections can be seen partly in the Karlsruhe Palace and partly in several branch museums.

Karlsruhe Palace

The museum's collections are presented on four floors in Karlsruhe Palace. The most important antiquities collection in Baden-Württemberg and the Karlsruhe Turkish booty, most of which Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden brought back from the Turkish Wars in 1691, are well known. To mark the 100th anniversary of its founding, the latest exhibition of the collection, Archaeology in Baden - Expothek¹, was opened in July 2019.

The departments in the palace include:[9] [10]

In the basement

Archaeology in Baden - Expothek¹: Vessels, weapons, tools and jewelry from the early cultural history of Baden from the Palaeolithic period (approx. 650,000 BC) to the Carolingian period (8th century AD). The collection exhibition is a pilot project for the new museum concept of the Baden State Museum and offers digital research tools and virtual reality. The Expothek at the center of the exhibition resembles a research laboratory. Here, registered users can have original objects presented to them by trained staff by prior appointment.

History of the Romans on the Upper Rhine: Roman culture and way of life on the Upper Rhine. Mithras relief and cellar of a Roman villa.

On the first floor

Ancient cultures of the Mediterranean region I and II: Exhibits from the ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Etruscans, Lower Italy and Sicily. Furnishings from Roman villas. Early Christian Byzantine objects.

Special exhibitions

On the second floor

On the second floor

Service facilities

The museum has a reference library for the collection areas and exhibition themes, a museum store and the "Schlosscafé" with Baden specialties.

Branch offices and museums

In addition to the palace, the Baden State Museum has eight branch offices and museums.

Noteworthy is the Open Access digital catalog, which offers new access to the collections and provides important information on individual objects.[12]

Special exhibitions

In addition to its collection exhibitions, the Baden State Museum presents several special exhibitions each year, some of which attract national attention as Large State exhibitions.

Large special exhibitions and state exhibitions in the castle from 1992 (each with catalog)

Activities in public

Collections on the Internet

With the digital catalog, the Baden State Museum provides new access to its collections. The offer is constantly being expanded and more and more objects can be researched.

See also

Literature

External links

References

  1. Web site: 2022-10-09. PDF; 15,1 MB. de. 122. Badisches Landesmuseum. Tätigkeitsbericht 2019.
  2. Harald Siebenmorgen: Das Badische Landesmuseum Karlsruhe stellt sich vor. In: Südkurier of April 25, 2014, supplement 600 Jahre Konstanzer Konzil, p. 6.
  3. retrieved on June 30, 2015.
  4. https://www.landesmuseum.de/museum-im-schloss/geschichte History of the Badisches Landesmuseum
  5. Web site: 2017-05-09. dpa. 2017-05-09. Badische Zeitung. Südwest: Hilda's diadem stolen.
  6. Web site: 2017-06-29. Anika Maldacker and dpa. 2017-06-28. Badische Zeitung. Südwest: Sicherheit: Badisches Landesmuseum nach zweitem Diebstahl in der Kritik.
  7. Web site: 2023-03-19. Isabel Steppler. 2023-02-28. en. Badische Neueste Nachrichten bnn.de. Landesmuseum im Karlsruher Schloss probably closed for several years from 2027.
  8. , retrieved on March 24, 2020.
  9. https://www.landesmuseum.de/museum-im-schloss/sammlungsausstellungen Collection exhibitions of the Baden State Museum in the palace.
  10. Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (ed.): Baden in Geschichte. Brochure from around 2014.
  11. Web site: 2020-04-16. Museum > Other locations > Keramikmuseum Staufen.
  12. Web site: 2022-10-05. Digitaler Katalog - Badisches Landesmuseum.
  13. https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/service/presse/pressemitteilung/pid/rueckgabe-von-raubgrabkunst-an-griechenland/ Press release: Restitution of looted grave art to Greece

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