Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte

The Museum of Art and Cultural History ( MKK) is a municipal museum in Dortmund The museum can be found today in a 1924 by Hugo Steinbach built as Municipal Savings Bank Art Deco building. The museum's collection is based on paintings, sculptures, furniture and crafts an insight into the cultural history of the city of Dortmund.

Meantime, the collection includes exhibits of pre-and early history to exhibits of the 20th century. The Presidium Surveying Technical Museum has a permanent exhibition on the history of surveying and geodetic instruments presents rare. The premises of the museum are regularly used for presentation of nationally significant art and cultural exhibitions.

• 2.1 Permanent exhibitions
• 2.2 departments
• 2.3 Individual Exhibitions

History

Urban Arts and Crafts Museum

At the suggestion of the historian and high school teacher Eduard Roese the City Council decided on 25 June 1883 to create a " collection " of historical and artistic items. The first director was the drawing-master Albert tree who established an extensive collection.

The collection saw several moves. Between 1899 and 1905 she was based in the then newly restored Old Town Hall. In 1911 she was placed in the currently vacant Oberbergamt, which was built 1872-75 to a design by the Berlin architect Gustav garlic and had been converted for the new use according to the plans of the Commissioner of City Planning Friedrich Kullrich. The "Urban Arts and Industry Museum " was there from 70 rooms and at that time consisted of archaeological finds as well as arts and crafts and local history objects.

Realignment as an art museum

Especially under the direction of art historian Rolf G. Fritz, who in 1934 was first used provisionally, the collection was rearranged and expanded to include art objects, especially around paintings of romanticism. During the war the collection was outsourced and thus saved from destruction. During this time, the collection also received its present name.

Castle Cappenberg

In 1945, the museum building on East Wall was destroyed in a bomb attack. In the castle Cappenberg to Lünen rooms were rented, where the collection was shown from 1946. Here, the museum also had outsourced art treasures from various churches destroyed Westphalia, about the Marian altar of Conrad von Soest from the Marienkirche Dortmund. The workshop of the museum made ​​an important contribution to the restoration of ecclesiastical art and used the time to the study of major works of art.

1966 Horst Appuhn successor to Fritz. Due to lack of funds for a new museum in Dortmund Appuhn first developed in Cappenberg a small permanent exhibition. Was extended, the collection has mainly historical furniture from Westphalia, completely home interiors of the Gothic to Art Nouveau should be documented by the.

Moving into the old city savings bank

1977, the City Council took the decision in principle to move the collection into today's home, the Art Deco building of the old city savings bank at the lower Hansastraße. In November 1983, the new museum was opened. Director from 1982 to 1986, the later Lord Mayor of the City of Dortmund, Gerhard Lange Meyer. General praised this was particularly the integration of art into the presentation and craftsmanship of artefacts. A special accent put the museum attention to the educational work with children and adolescents. The old City Savings Bank is registered as a historic landmark in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund.

Exhibitions

On the occasion of her 100th birthday gave the Dortmund Museum Society for the Care of Fine Art to the Museum of the altarpiece " The Holy Family " by Jan Baegert (worked about 1505-1530 ). The artwork is part of a separate into four parts until the 20th century altarpiece from which was a part already in the possession of the museum. The two remaining parts from the possession of the Hamburger Kunsthalle are loaned to the museum so that the altarpiece is currently on display in the museum completely.

Permanent exhibitions

• Cultural history in time-lapse
• The small National Gallery (dependance of the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin)
• Exhibition on the history of surveying

Departments

• Ground floor - Back to the Stone Age; Antiquities; Cafe Fluxus
• 1st Floor - The Old Town; Christian Art in the Middle Ages; Culture of 16 -18. Century
• 1st and 2nd intermediate level - 19th Century Paintings with CDFriedrich, Slevogt, Corinth, Werner and others
• 2nd floor of Sundays and everyday life; pharmacy
• 3rd floor Beautiful Living in the 19th century; Applied Arts since 1900
• 4th floor - the new city; surveying history

Individual Exhibitions

• And if they have not died ... Photos from Grimm 's Fairy Tales (November 18, 2006 - January 7, 2007 )
• Beauty from the fire, tile art from eight centuries in the studio (August 12, 2006 to October 29 2006)
• Worlds - Free City. Dortmund in the Middle Ages (April 2, 2006 to July 16, 2006 )
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Drawings, watercolors and photographs ( June 27, 2004 - September 5, 2004)
• Cézanne Manet Schuch: Three ways to autonomous art (30 May 2000 to 30 July 2000)
• Objects of Desire: jewelry by Miriam Haskell, New York (20 May 2000 to 30 July 2000)
• Frank Lloyd Wright: The Living City
• Yves Boucard: Fantastic Furniture (January 23, 1999 to March 14, 1999 )
• Benno Elkan - A Jewish artists from Dortmund (18 March 2011 to 22 May 2011)
• Manu factum (July 14, 2013 to September 8, 2013 )
• Extreme right-wing violence in Germany 1990-2013 (September 7, 2013 to October 27, 2013 )
• DEW21 Art Prize 2013 and winner Barbara Hlali exhibition (September 21, 2013 to November 3, 2013 )