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The Museum Biberach is a
A legacy from the
museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...
with several sections in Biberach an der Riss in Upper Swabia. The museum resides in one of the oldest and biggest buildings from the 16th century in this city. It belongs to the considerable collections in Baden-Württemberg.
On 2.800 square meters it presents archaeology, history, art and natural history. Models, all sorts of installations, and computer animations explain the origin and settlement of the Upper Swabian landscape. The collections reveal the life and the terms of employment of the people, such as the notable weaving in the town since the 17th century. Prominent pieces of art from former times until the present enrich the knowledge of the visitors.
The art-historical division gathers key works of art of the Upper Swabian region and the important works of the German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
History
Since 1898 numerous founders and sponsors laid the basis for a Biberach civil museum which was opened in 1902 in the historical rooms of the hospital to the Holy Ghost ().
A legacy from the Munich
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painters Anton Braith (a Biberachian by birth, 18361905) and Christian Mali (18321906) in the years 19051908 bequeathed their representative and richly equipped atelier rooms to the museum. Today the Braith Mali drawing rooms are the only completely preserved artist's studios from the 19th century.
Collections
The museum encloses the divisions: #Natural history with realistically formedbiotope
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#Archaeology of Upper Swabia (among other the collection of the Biberach dentist and pioneering archaeologist ''Heinrich Forschner'' (1880–1959)). Exhibits document the settlement of Upper Swabia back to the ages of Celts
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, ancient Romans
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(; ) during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. This concept underwent considerable changes throughout the long history of the Roman ...
and Alemanni
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on the Upper Rhine River during the first millennium. First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Roman emperor Caracalla of 213 CE ...
as far as to the Bronze Age
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and Stone Age
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13,000 years ago. This collection encloses about 22,000 finds from more than 300 usually Upper Swabian sites.
# Gothic art
#Art from the 17th to the 19th century (with works from Johann Heinrich Schönfeld and Johann Baptist Pflug as well as the painter's family of ''Pieter Francis Peters'' (18181903) from Stuttgart
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#Historical artist's studios of the animal painters Anton Braith and Christian Mali from the 19th century.
#Gallery of the modernist art with works from ''Jakob Bräckle'' (including his studio), ''Julius Kaesdorf'', ''Romane Holderried Kaesdorf'' and paintings and graphics from Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
#History of the Free Imperial City of Biberach, under it tin toys from the probable oldest manufacturer ''Rock & Graner''.
An information point in the stairwell presents designer ''Heinz H. Engler''.
A 3-D model of the city of Biberach in the ground floor can be visited without admission fee and is also shown on town guidances.
Literature
*See also
* List of museums in GermanyNotes