Ore Mountain Museum

The Erzgebirgsmuseum is a museum in Annaberg -Buchholz. The presentation shows exhibits from the Erzgebirge folk art (especially carving and bobbin lace or trimmings ) and provides insight into the history of the town of Annaberg and silver mining in the region. In the possession of the museum there is also a work from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger from 1572, as well as a large collection of valuable pewter. Attached to the museum is the visitor mine in Gößner.

History

The institution was founded in 1887 as a museum of Erzgebirge antiquities and was initially housed in the Town Hall Annaberg. Basis of the presentation made ​​private collections and donations Anna Berger citizens. Due to a rapid expansion of the exhibition today's home opposite St. Anne's Church was built in 1891 related. 1905 at the initiative of Erzgebirgsvereins which until 1927 was the establishment of moral and financial, renamed Erzgebirgsmuseum. The profile of the museum was strongly influenced by the local historian and the first director Emil Finck.

During construction work, an extensive tunnel system was discovered in the early days of Anna Berger silver mining in 1500 and opened to the public in August 1995 in the area around the museum in 1992.

Conductor

• Emil Finck (1887-1922)
• Rudolf Kohlmann (1922-1929)
• Karl Bursian (1929-1955)
• Helmut Breitung (1955-1964)
• Rudi Gellrich (1964-1986)
• Jörg Nicklaus (1986-2004)
• Jörg Bräuer (2005-2010)
• Silke Kral (2010-2011)
• Jörg Bräuer ( 2011 interim)
• Desirée Baur (as of 1 January 2012)

Publications

• Anna Berger Museum leaves, hrsgg. v. Jörg Nicklaus, Annaberg -Buchholz 1987 ff