The Altonaer museum - north German federal state museum was the urban museum of the city Altona/Elbe independent to 1938 and is today one of the most steeped in tradition museums in Hamburg.

Emergence and conception

Since 1863 there was first a privately operated forerunner, which public museum Altona at the Palmaille 112 in Altona, which consisted were taken over 1888 mainly of botanischen collections and by the city. The city, which had also developed to industriellen a large city over 140.000 inhabitants (1890), wanted to present itself in representative mechanisms, to which in time at that time also a museum counted.

At the emperor place (today: Place of the republic), convenient between new city hall and new main station Altonas, developed a splendourful new building (architect: Reinhardt and from Berlin), which were inaugurated on 16 September 1901. For its development the Altonaer teacher Otto Lehmann (1865-1951) developed a concept, which the schleswig holsteinische land and Volkskunde placed into the center of the "“national education place museum"” and thus from the museums in the rich neighbour city Hamburg ("“the gate to the world"”) should distinguish itself, which represented rather a spacious requirement. Lehmann was appointed at the 1.April 1899 as the first full-time director now of the Altonaer museum mechanism mentioned and kept this function by 31 October 1931; it received the professor title to 1906.

The museum should bring by the teeth of naturkundlicher and culture-historical exhibits, which could consist also of reproductions and productions ("“life pictures"”), the development of Schleswig-Holstein to the visitors in their mutual limitation of nature and society holistic close; Descriptiveness and experiencing barness were for this concept more importantly than for instance the completeness of scientific collections. For the time still most unusually it was also that the Altonaer museum exhibition surfaces made museum leaders available for young contemporary artists, about individual published and a ("“Erfrischungsraum"”) for visitors called its own.

Since the concept encountered enormous visitor saying, the museum was already extended in August 1914 (on the occasion of the of city anniversary) to the double surface.

Departments and recent development

The Altonaer museum had

• botanische and zoo-logical collections
• a geological department
• Collections Schleswig-Holstein and/or altonatypischer buildings and utensils, in particular too:
  • Building of ships and ship types
  • Fishery
  • Farmhouse types and farmer rooms
  • Trachten

Center of the 1970er years decided of Hamburg senate that the museum its naturkundlichen existence (in particular the collections of Konchylien and fossil Mollusken as well as the Herbarium) to those Hamburg university, which had to deliver pre and earlyhistorical existence to the Harburger helmet museum extracted and from the Altonaer museum so one of its conceptional support legs. In addition came that a damage fire 1980 arranged substantial destruction at building and existence, into whose consequence it contentwise to the partial reorientation of the museum and spatially to an enlargement of the exhibition surfaces on approximately 8,500 m came, which are since that time however only partly in the not completely again-established building of 1901/14, partly in addition, in the neighbouring, former clock Mach he technical school created by Gustav Oelsner 1928.

At present the Altonaer museum has in addition four branch offices, i.e.

• the Jenisch house (in the Flottbeker Jenischpark, above devil-bridge convenient) as museum of largecivil housing tradition
• the Heine house to the Elbchaussee in Ottensen
• the Ewer "“Elfriede"” in the museum port at the new mills
• the rural Rieck house with four-countries the open air museum in Curslack

Opening times

The Altonaer museum is Sundays opened between 10 and 18 o'clock Tuesday to.

Literature

• Torkild Hinrichsen (Hg.), in of Otto head. The Altonaer museum 1901 to 2001 and Galitz) Hamburg/Munich 2001 ISBN 3-935549-04-0
• Gerhard buyer, the Altonaer museum in Hamburg in: Wolfgang Vacano/Kurt Dohrmann (Hg.), Altona - Hamburg historical Kleinod with future (Altonaer citizen association) Hamburg 1989

Related links

• The web page of the museum
• Works of art and objects of the museum
• in the four and march landing

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