Stadtmuseum Gütersloh

The City Museum Gütersloh is a city history museum in the East Westphalian county town of Gütersloh. The museum is sponsored by the Homeland Association Gütersloh and shows not only exhibits on local history Gütersloh two exhibitions for medical and industrial history. These are accompanied by three permanent exhibitions per year, about five to seven exhibitions on local issues, or of traveling exhibitions. Pride of the museum is the collection of medical history, which was founded in 1990 awarded a special prize for European Museum Award. Among the most important exhibits include a desk of the Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch and iron lungs from the 1950s.

History of the Museum

A first local museum there was in Gütersloh in 1935, after the desire for such a museum had come up already in the 1920s for prehistoric and early historical discoveries in Gütersloh. The building as the exhibits were damaged during World War II and partially destroyed. In 1974, the remains of the previous exhibition were shown in a new country house, which, however, did not offer enough space. On 24 June 1982, the Gütersloher Dr. Wilhelm In Nete gave ( 1890-1984 ) and his sister Else 's home club Gütersloh there set up two plots of land with the buildings in the Gütersloher downtown on the condition that a museum.

The City Museum opened in 1988 in Gütersloh so-called brick house. Support was the home club Gütersloh, where the city of Gütersloh contributes to the cost today. In 1997 a neighboring timber house could be prepared in a second phase of construction. In 2000 the museum opened cafe.

Building

The museum complex consists of several historic buildings. The exhibition on the history of the city is shown in a half-timbered house, which was built around 1750 and in 1819-1868 the first Prussian Elementary School Gütersloh was located before there opened the grain action In Nete & Wulf Horst. These built in 1874 as a grain warehouse the brick house, with exhibits for medical and industrial history can be seen today. The houses are connected to each other since 1930 by a transition on the 1st floor, which today enables a museum tour. Both buildings were 1984 registered with the monument numbers A 081 and A 082 in the list of monuments in Gütersloh.

In another half-timbered houses the museum management and administration, and the museum café are housed. The latter was translocated in an elaborate process. Its original location was near what is now Gütersloh City Hall. Other than possible with most truss structures, it could not be broken, otherwise decorated with murals, load-bearing interior wall would have been destroyed. Thus, the 20 -ton building was gutted, stiffened by diagonal braces in a transport cage "packaged" and driven by low loader to the new location.

The museum magazine is outside the museum proper land.

A bridge connects the two buildings.

Rear view: In the middle of the museum café, which was translocated in one piece. Good to see the Utlucht.

The café is only 64 sqm small, the museum's courtyard is accordingly used in fine weather.

Collections and Exhibitions

In principle, the City Museum Gütersloh collects everything to do with the city of Gütersloh. Special focus of the collection beyond medicine, hygiene and health, business and industry, media and media technology ( what with the resident in Gütersloh Bertelsmann media group related ) as well as toys and recreation. Its extensive collections, which can be shown only the smallest part because of the low available exhibition space, make the museum one of the larger museums in the region.

City History Gütersloh

The exhibition on the history of the city of Gütersloh includes artifacts from the Bronze Age to modern products of the digital revolution. You can see next to original prehistoric finds a replica of the 3,500 -year-old, 41 cm high " Pavenstädter giant cup ", one of the oldest evidence of human habitation in the city of Gütersloh. At the earlier determination of the half-timbered house recalls a teacher's apartment from the time of the pre-March period.

One focus of the city's history exhibition focuses on the everyday life Gütersloher families around 1868. Listed are furnishing and utensils of a Protestant and a Catholic family. On the establishment of the first weather station Gütersloh by the Honorary Citizen of Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Stohlmann remember historical weather data.

In the former stables of half-timbered house the complete establishment of the Gütersloher coppersmiths Thiro is housed in the year 1900: Three generations of the family Thiro worked until 1977 with the devices exhibited there; they produced, for example, pots, pans and stills for the local distilleries.

A portion of the exhibition is devoted to the theme " Gütersloh - City of the founders and Schenker ." Not least because the city museum owes its existence to a donation, figures are presented, which have been used by Foundation activities for the common good of the city. A prominent example is Reinhard Mohn, who brought to life in 1996 in Gütersloh 's oldest community foundation in Germany. Thus, in this area a bronze sculpture poppy is issued, a work of Wiedenbrücker sculptor Hubert Hartmann (1915-2006) in 1986.

History of Medicine

The City Museum Gütersloh is the only city history museum in Northern Germany with medical historical focus. The exhibition on the history of medicine is considered a " nationally significant " and in 1990 the Special Prize for the European Museum Prize ( European Museum of the Year Award). It combines general developments in the history of medicine ( " Medicine in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Times ," " From the god of healing, a demigod in white" ) with local references ( medical practice Dr. Ange Nete, known Gütersloher doctors as Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Theodor Rumpel or freeman Wilhelm Schlüter, Friedrich Wilhelm Stohlmann and Carl Zumwinkel ). Since there are relatively few medical history museums in Germany, this permanent exhibition is a flagship and the unique feature of the museum, at least in the regional museums.

The collection dates back to the Gütersloher Dr. Wilhelm In Nete, not only the building of the museum, but also the inventory of his practice bequeathed the home club, including numerous medical instruments, furniture, a skeleton as well as teaching and instructional materials in part or from the 1920s and 1930s. In addition, the home club was able to secure significant parts of an originally established as a pharmacy drugstore of 1890.

These exhibits formed the basis for a collection that today the desk of Medicine Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch (1843-1910) from his time as director at the Institute of Hygiene in Berlin (1885-1891) belongs. The desk came through the mediation of originating from Gütersloh medical historian Prof. Dr. Axel Hinrich Murken .. in the City Museum

Other notable exhibits are two dental facilities in 1925 and 1955, an X-ray machine, the birthing chair a midwife ( a collapsible, transportable by bicycle bench with a hole in the middle through which fit the newborn ), a cystoscope from the 1920s as well as an iron lung, a steel pressure chamber tube in which lived a lung patient permanently. Today, a dozen of these ventilators can be viewed publicly in Germany hardly.

In 1998, the City Museum is also the practice facility of the Gütersloh ophthalmologist Dr. Kurt Heinrich ( 1908-1998 ).

Parallel to the permanent exhibition shows the City Museum and special traveling exhibitions with medical historical reference. Examples can be found in the " Special " section.

From his medical history collection is the City Museum Gütersloh again exhibits for exhibitions in other museums. Thus came in the exhibition " sun, moon and stars. Culture and nature of energy " in the Zeche Zollverein in Essen nine out of fourteen medical radiation lamps from the collection of the City Museum. Numerous companies, associations, health insurance, medical practices, clinics and other health care facilities fall within the meaning of history marketing for exhibitions such as on the occasion of Juliläen to the collection back. Borrowing its exhibits operates the city museum, including a technical and practical advice exhibition as " historical performance ", to generate extra revenue.

In July 2013, the City Museum directs the 23rd Symposium " Medical History Museology " from. The conference representatives networked medical historical collections and museums in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Industrial history

The second permanent exhibition deals with the industrial development in Germany the example Gütersloher companies and thus focus on the textile and metal goods industry. You can see next to machine tools and machines a still -functioning mechanical loom. The issue of " wash and washing machine " is addressed in terms of the domestic appliance manufacturer Miele.

Special

In special local topics and shown traveling exhibitions. In the local issues, the focus is on the city's history with the development of industry, trade and transport, culture, leisure and education.

The focus of his collection on the history of medicine accordingly, the City Museum shows regularly own or other exhibitions from this area. Examples of this were " Bloody crafts - Clinical Surgery. For the development of surgery 1750-1920 "," childbirth art. Birth Medical Collection of Göttingen from 1750 to 1860 ", a special exhibition on the Gütersloher pathologist Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, " prostheses from head to toe "," It's not so bad. Children's books and toys to medicine, illness and healing "," Au Backe. From tooth-pulling the tooth Receive "or " The discovery of mobility - age, illness and disability in history ".

With the exhibition " room lifts and manual operation bicycles - from the history of the wheelchair " in 2013, the Museum contributes to a still relatively unexplored chapter in the history of medicine. Heinrich Wilhelm Volt Man in Bad Oeynhausen founded in 1871, probably the first German wheelchair factory, was born on June 4, 1843 in Gütersloh.

Traditionally, an exhibition will be shown in the winter months, which deals more broadly with toys. These exhibitions experience Experience has shown that the greatest visitor numbers. Among the most successful exhibitions of the museum included " The engineer is nothing to swear " (with mock inventions of Gyro Gearloose ), "Busy girl - Barbie makes a career ", " Texas - loose - Express - The railway region Gütersloh in the model " ( an allusion to TWE ), " All build with Lego " and Kathe Kruse exhibition.

Museum Education

Developed in Münster project " Culture Rascals " is used in its member cities since 2008 by the Culture Secretariat NRW Gütersloh. For primary school children have the opportunity to play and suitable for children to know the exhibitions and to look behind the scenes of a museum operations at the City Museum Gütersloh. Are offered Museum rallies, quizzes, panel actions and courses for textile manufacturing and woodworking. There are special guided tours for children and activities for children 's birthday parties. A " Museum doctor " and his assistant perform the medical history collection. In addition, the City Museum has portable display cases made ​​of wood, which are equipped with material (eg for the production of paper and to learn of historical writing and printing techniques ) and loaned to schools for project work.