vorarlberg museum

The Vorarlberg museum (formerly the Vorarlberg State Museum, Abbreviated: VLM ) in Bregenz, Austria is the art and cultural history National Museum of the province of Vorarlberg. It was founded in 1857 and has since been a central place where the testimonies of the art and culture of the state collected, preserved, researched and made publicly accessible. The work of the Museum of content focused on issues with respect Vorarlberg. At the same time it integrates them into a cross-border context. The extensive collections with a focus on archeology, history, art history, and folklore of Vorarlberg, which extends the Vorarlberg museum currently deepened and the present day out are the basis of museum work. Here, the museum itself as a place of sensory experience and intellectual knowledge and conveys his themes through original testimonials from past and present. Of particular interest is the cooperation with national, international and regional cultural institutions.

3.1 The first national museum building
3.2 The new building in 2013

5.1 editorship

History

The National Museum was founded in 1857 by the private Vorarlberg State Museum Society. Its collections and the building of the museum were 1947/48 passed to the State of Vorarlberg. Since 1997, it is supported jointly with the Kunsthaus Bregenz and Vorarlberg State Theatre of the business service facility Vorarlberg culture houses BetriebsgmbH in terms of administration.

The museum is currently in a phase of the redesign. On 5 October 2009, the house was closed for an almost 3 -year-old construction and reconstruction period. The existing museum will be demolished in the next few months and will be rebuilt at the same place with the addition of the adjacent building, the old district team. With the creation of a new corporate design and a new corporate identity for the Museum star designer Stefan Sagmeister was commissioned, who presented the new appearance of the house in early 2011 in Bregenz. As part of the renaming of the museum of the Vorarlberg State Museum in Vorarlberg museum took place. The new house was reopened in June 2013 with a double exhibition space.

Head of Vorarlberg museum

Before Adolf Hild, the respective board of the Vorarlberg State Museum Association acted in personal union as the representative of the Vorarlberg State Museum, without explicitly operate as its director.

Vorarlberg State Museum Association

On November 15, 1857 Vorarlberg State Museum Association held - with the later Governor of Vorarlberg Sebastian Knight of Froschauer, Ernst von Pollnitz and others - its inaugural meeting from. This was also the birth of the Vorarlberg State Museum. Sebastian von Auer frog remained first chairman of the Vorarlberg State Museum Society to 1873.

The main objective of the association was to secure Vorarlberg heritage, the preservation of important works before spreading abroad, and if possible, their return to Vorarlberg. The foundation of the " Vorarlberg State Museum " was the earliest founding of the museum in the Bodensee area, because until then there was only a common " Museum für Tirol und Vorarlberg " in Innsbruck. With the re-establishment of a National Museum in Bregenz an independent institution has been launched. With much dedication and enthusiasm of the members of the National Museum Association, the museum's collection have been continuously expanded and multiplied.

The museum building

Just one year after its founding, opened the National Museum Club in a private home Bregenz each Sunday morning three museum rooms for interested visitors. 1860 related objects her first house in the Kaspar -Hagen -Straße 2, where the archeology almost took the whole ground floor, first floor found Fine Art, Coins and library space, the second floor of Zoology, technology, botany, mineralogy and the works of Angelica Kauffmann. After a short time became apparent soon that the building the rapidly growing collections could not accommodate long. The textile manufacturer Samuel Jenny founded a Museumsbaufonds on which the city of Bregenz involved. They also unveiled a free plot of land directly on Lake Constance available. For financial reasons, the groundbreaking ceremony for the first real museum delayed until 1902.

The first national museum building

In a construction period of just four years, the new building was erected according to designs by architect George. The house at the Bregenz grain market was technologically what flood, fire protection, heating and construction is concerned, up to date 1905 settled the collections in the Historismusbau there and were open to the public from June 9. Though the building was designed to increase the collection, however, required the rapidly growing stocks after a short time additional space.

Already in the 1930s the museum again complained about lack of space. With an extensive remodeling but not until the mid -1950s began under the museum director Elmar Vonbank. Here, the building was increased by a bullet and the historicist facade jewelry away. In 1960, the redesigned museum to the public open again. At the time of the great conversions followed fifty years in which no investments were made, and the gap between the museological requirements for the building and the structural reality aufklaffte getting stronger. The gap between an aging house and in recent decades massively increased visitor expectations grew.

The new building in 2013

In March 2007, the state government took the decision in principle to the architectural redesign of the museum, where the spatially - museological concept " VLM New" by Tobias G. Natter was based. Regarding the authorship of the concept of a copyright dispute had broken out shortly after the opening of the museum, which ended with a court settlement. From the Europe-wide architectural competition described the Bregenz architectural firm went " Cukrowicz Nachbaur architects " as the winner. On June 21, 2013, the new building was opened.

Facilities

A specialized library with a stock of about 15,000 volumes to the collection areas is affiliated with the Museum.

Publications

The Vorarlberg State Museum / Series A, landscape history and archeology magazines.
The Vorarlberg State Museum / Series B art history and conservation journals.
The Vorarlberg State Museum / row headings C, folklore.
Gabriela Krist, Helmut Swozilek: Fritz Krcal ( 1888-1983 ). Böhlau, 2005, ISBN 3-205-77471- x.
Tobias G. Natter, Ute Pfanner (ed.): architectura practica - Baroque architect and modern school of architecture of Vorarlberg. Vorarlberg State Museum, Bregenz 2006, ISBN 3,901,802,266th
Tobias G. Natter (ed.): 150 years donations. Vorarlberg State Museum, Bregenz 2007, ISBN 3-901802-27-4.
Tobias G. Natter ( ed.): " Canton Remaining " - As Vorarlberg wanted to belong to Switzerland. Vorarlberg State Museum, Bregenz 2007, ISBN 3-901802-32-0.
Tobias G. Natter (ed.): Gold. Treasures of Art between Lake Constance and Chur. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2213-1.
Tobias G. Natter (ed.): Schappele, Chränsle & Co. 96 traditional headgear of the collection Agnes Kinz. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2008, ISBN 978-3-902612-46-5.
Tobias G. Natter (ed.): Views. Early Photography from Vorarlberg. Vorarlberg State Museum, Bregenz 2008, ISBN 3-901802-29-0.
Tobias G. Natter (ed.): Angelika Kauffmann. A woman of immense talent. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3775719834.
Tobias G. Natter (ed.): Snow. Raw material of art. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2430-2.
Tobias G. Natter, Michael Fehr, Bettina Habsburg- Lorraine (ed.): The depot. Between open magazine and staging. transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3837616163.

Editorship

From the Austrian National Library digitized editions: Montfort - Magazine of History, Local History and Folklore of Vorarlberg. (Online at ANNO ) Template: ANNO / Maintenance / mft, since 1946
Quarterly magazine of history and geography of Vorarlberg. 1917-1926
Yearbook of the Vorarlberg State Museum in Bregenz. 1928-1930
Yearbook of the Vorarlberg museum association. 1940-1941
Yearbook / Vorarlberg State Museum Society, Friends of the regional studies. 1948 -

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