Tyrolean Folk Art Museum
The Tyrolean Folk Art Museum is housed in the former Franciscan monastery next to the Innsbruck Hofkirche, close to the Old Town.
History
1888 decided the Tyrolean trade association, build in Innsbruck at a " Tyrolean Museum Commercial ": A model collection to give the threatened by industrialization Tyrolean craft suggestions and guidance, should be established. Accordingly, the original collective action, especially contemporary products of high quality craftsmanship was.
Soon we expanded the collection to include " objects alttirolischen arts and crafts " as well as " products Tyrolean house diligence ". 1903 Tyrolean Museum of Popular Arts and Crafts was founded, which passed into the possession of trade and industry chamber. After a long search location is moved to the former Franciscan monastery. In 1926 the state of Tyrol 's collections with the requirement to build a public museum. This was opened in 1929 by President Wilhelm Miklas.
2007, the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum in cooperation with the Tyrolean Provincial Museum in the Tyrolean State Museums - mbH incorporated. The company is led by Wolfgang Meighörner, who is also director of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. A little later the collection was redesigned and rebuilt the house accordingly. The 80th anniversary of the museum was reopened on May 18, 2009.
Line
- ?: Josef Ringler?
- 1959 -: Franz Colleselli
- 1980-2003: Hans Gschnitzer
- Since 2004: Herlinde Menardi
Collections
The bulk of the collection was purchased before the First World War. Collection area was the historic county Tirol, were among the next to today's state of Tyrol and South Tyrol, Trentino and the Italian province of Belluno for today belonging to Ladin valleys of the Dolomites. This area is still considered in purchases. In the 1930s, objects from the Tyrolean Provincial Museum were exchanged.
The objects come from farming, but mainly from middle-class and aristocratic strata of the population. Focuses on arts and crafts, arts and crafts, cottage industry, popular piety, Tradition ( masks and costumes ). Particularly well known is the Museum for its extensive collection of Christmas and Easter Nativity and for its bars, mostly from aristocratic environment.
Transformation in 2009
Using a newly developed concept, the exhibition was remodeled and reopened in 2009. Visitors get information about selected objects since using personal digital assistants. Lucifer, the enigmatic figure of the Nicholas, since then seduced by the exhibition: When inquiring provocateur which opens up new perspectives.
An area on the first floor, above the cloister, is called Plump year and shows a cycle of church festivals, folk customs, celebrations and work during the year. The show Precarious lives on the second floor shows the handling of earlier societies with suffering, hardships and anxieties of life, coping with everyday life by blessing and magic, Please and thanks. A special study collection deals with the areas of domestic industry, labor, and property and heirs. Under the motto appearance and reality feel a reconstructed according to historical models photo studio the romantic glorification of national costume by: 48 hand-carved figurines provide insight into the idealization of a 1900 already stored in everyday clothing.
A multimedia show now deals with the abutting to the museum Hofkirche, and a re- opened earlier receipt from the monastery to the church rood screen connects the two buildings content.
The ground floor is devoted to such earlier mainly the cribs. Also remained unchanged until 1929 built- paneled rooms from the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo in the first and second floor.