Hamburgmuseum
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The hamburgmuseum also known as Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte ("Museum for Hamburg History"), is a history museum located in the city of Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
in northern Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. The museum was established at its current location in 1922, although its parent organization was started in 1839. The museum was named hamburgmuseum in 2006. It is located near the Planten un Blomen
Planten un Blomen
Planten un Blomen is a park with a size of 47 hectares in the center of Hamburg. The name is Low German for plants and flowers.-Overview:The first plant was a Platanus, planted by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann in November 1821...
park in the center of Hamburg.
History
The main building was designed by Fritz SchumacherFritz Schumacher (architect)
Fritz Schumacher was a German architect and urban designer.Schumacher was born into a diplomatic family in Bremen. The family Schumacher has been living there since 15th century....
and constructed between 1914 and 1922.
The museum courtyard was damaged from the great fire in 1842 and fully restored in 1995. A glass dome over the inner courtyard was completed in 1989.
The Hamburg Observatory occupied the area at the Museum from 1825 to 1912 before being moved to Bergedorf
Bergedorf
Bergedorf is the largest of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, Germany and a quarter within this borough. In 2006 the population of the borough was 118,942.-History:...
. The area was part of the old city wall, part of Bastion Henricus, a baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
fortification
Fortification
Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defence in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs...
built between 1616 and 1625. The museum was formerly located at the Johanneum school.
The museum became state-owned under the direction of Otto Lauffe, though this was changed back in 1999.
The museum adopted the name hamburgmuseum, and initials hm, in 2006. In 2008 the museum runs a program called hm freunde (Society of friends of the museum of Hamburg history).
Interior and contents
Exhibits in 2005
- Kleidung und Mode: Kostüme und Kleidung in Hamburg von 1550–1920
- Hamburgisches Mäzenatentum: Familie Lorenz-Meyer als Beispiel
- Musik und Kunst in Hamburg
- Theater und Wissenschaft in Hamburg
- Hamburg im 20. Jahrhundert
- Der Hamburger Börsenvorplatz von 1558
- Hamme, Burg und Hansestadt – Hamburg im Mittelalter
- Kirchen, Kanonen und Kommerz – Hamburg in der frühen Neuzeit
- Reformation in Hamburg
- Hamburg als Währungszentrum
- Das Schiffswrack von Wittenbergen
- Bauen und Wohnen und die Sicherung der Elbe vor Piraten
- Barocke Kaufmannsdiele
- Stadtbild und Verfassung im 17. Jahrhundert
- Hamburg 1650-1860
- Die HafenCityHafenCityHafenCity is a quarter in the District of Hamburg-Mitte in Hamburg, Germany. It is located on the Elbe river island that use to be called Kehrwieder and Wandrahm....
– Hamburg im 21. Jahrhundert - Kommandobrücke des Dampfers WERNER
- Zur Wohnkultur
- Geschichte der Juden in Hamburg
- Klopstockzimmer
- Barocke Wohnräume
- Kunsthandwerk und Wohnkultur
- 1945. Kriegsende in Hamburg