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"Look treasures": rolls, the pug and his friend

2020-06-04T21:22:11.185Z


For weeks, nobody was able to visit the new special exhibition “Treasures Look” in the Museum Starnberger See in Starnberg. After registration, visitors are now welcome - and a visit is worthwhile.


For weeks, nobody was able to visit the new special exhibition “Treasures Look” in the Museum Starnberger See in Starnberg. After registration, visitors are now welcome - and a visit is worthwhile.

Starnberg - The Museum Starnberger See is open again. Everyone can go in, but only 15 people at the same time, and it goes without saying that a mouthguard must be worn. Only after registration can the Lochmannhaus and the current special exhibition be visited. "Looking for treasures" is worth a visit.

Museum director Benjamin Tillig accepts the corona restrictions and tries to make the best of them. He thinks it's a real shame that school classes are missing due to the restriction. So it's not really crowded in the museum. That's a shame, because what takes your breath away is less the mouthguard, but the extremely exciting special show "Treasures look", which can still be seen until January 10, 2021.

"A museum is a place of things," explains Tillig of his museum concept, and he has set out to make exhibits "tangible". He has been the head of the Heimatmuseum for a year now, bringing him out of his sleeping beauty. The Corona crisis has vigorously shaken his plans, but in retrospect that was "also a fruitful moment". Because: "This gave us enough time to think about what and who we want to achieve with the museum, how we can attract audiences and what is missing in the museum."

Historical plans and some puzzles 

Now there are more tables and chairs in the large garden, where distance regulations can be easily adhered to, and the high-quality original Italian cappuccino machine creates true holiday feelings when you enjoy your coffee in the shade of the ash tree that opened the museum in 1914 was planted - according to the legend of Bavaria's last King Ludwig III. The first time you meet him and the founding fathers of the museum, including Richard Paulus and Martin Penzl, is in the special show “Treasures Looking”.

The handwritten original statutes of the museum association are exhibited in the entrance area with further documents and a newly prepared architectural plan of the Lochmannhaus, which are based on new measurements. When drawing these architectural plans, the researchers came across several great riddles - how can it be, for example, that the upper room with the beautiful wood paneling was installed later but is older than the surrounding outer walls? They have been working on the report for a year and a half and are considering the meaning of some non-load-bearing beams in the living room.

It is exactly such secrets that inspire museum director Benjamin Tillig. In order to track them down and make them accessible to visitors, he often consults with experts such as the general director of the Bavarian National Museum Dr. Frank Matthias Kammel and the museum director colleagues from the Ismaninger Kallmann Museum, the Open Air Museum Glentleiten and the Museum Marta Herford. The goal is a new mission statement and museum concept with which Tillig wants to lead the house into the future.

How did the ceramic pug get into the Museum Starnberger See?

But he prefers to drive to the depot again and again and blow dust off the shelves in search of new exhibits. In the depths of the camp he has already discovered some curiosity, which is now shown in the special exhibition. Treasures that tell new stories about Starnberg's past or that invite you to invent your own stories. He particularly enjoys the little things. Like the ceramic pug and its “friend”, an exotic earthenware birdie. Nobody knows why they ended up in the museum at all. The French flag, which probably dates from the Franco-Prussian war, also occupies historians, as do two rolls that lie in antique screw-top jars - presumably field food from the First World War.

But what story is really behind the dagger, which persistently carries the rumor that the opera singer Leoni wanted to kill himself with it? Benjamin Tillig laughs and points to the short and narrow blade, but who knows, after all it was the file that the Empress Sisi did not cost much longer. He also placed a pair of rococo silk shoes decorated with silver thread. A relic from the court? And then there is the lion's head, the unusual bow figure of a sled. What is the big paper globe like a balloon around which maybe early Biedermeier festivals or the pupils of a village school?

Many things that were treasured like temple treasures and now make the museum a cabinet of curiosities And because it is all about the things of life, a film by media artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss from 1987 is wonderful. “The Run of Things” was a big hit at Documenta 8 and is now part of the Center Georges Pompidou collection in Paris and a permanent exhibit of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. So Starnberg is in really good company. 

Source: merkur

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