City history in a modern guise awaits visitors in the Unterschleissheim City Museum, which will be equipped with tablets and touchscreens after the renovation.
Unterschleissheim - Visitors to the Unterschleissheim City Museum will not recognize the rooms on the upper floor of the town house. The museum is in the middle of a renovation and is currently closed, but in a few months it could appear in a whole new light. Museum director Stephan Bachter and the Cultural Office are working on this.
If the ideas that the exhibition designers from the agency Neonpastell presented to the culture committee are implemented, a sparkling jewel for art and city history could emerge. The visitors then experience a stimulating atmosphere in the noble rooms, in which nothing will remind of the two caretaker's apartments that they once were.
Dark walls, floors and ceilings draw attention to illuminated showcases, objects and pictures. The Graf Collection will form the center of the museum. The paintings that show Unterschleissheim and the surrounding area in the eyes of artists give the museum a focus in the field of art.
Installation is mobile and can be used again
Guests receive a tablet at the reception, which also serves as an audio guide. If you want to learn more about a picture or an object, you call up information and learn stories about location, scene or artist. Thanks to the interactivity, wall texts and labels can be reduced, which some visitors quickly feel overwhelmed with. Another area is the city's history: on a large touch screen, guests can touch streets and get information about urban development. The interactive installation is mobile and can be used again if the museum moves later. "There are stencils that can be filled in a variety of ways," said Tom Kohlbauer, Managing Director of Neonpastell. New content and objects can always be presented. There is also space for special exhibitions, for example by local artists.
Visitors receive additional information on a tablet.
© Graphic: Neonpastell GmbH, Augsburg
The ideas for the redesign awakened anticipation in the culture committee. The exhibition designers want to implement their concept for around 145,000 euros. Stefan Krimmer (CSU) asked whether this was realistic. Kohlbauer assured budget loyalty that the budget would be met. He suggests widening rooms, moving doors, and closing windows and skylights to create larger, darker rooms and a line of sight. A dark gray linoleum floor, dark ceilings and walls in strong red and royal blue are intended to provide the appropriate background for the exhibition.
The task of creating a “worthy framework” for the city's history and the painting collection from two apartments was a “blatant challenge,” said Kohlbauer, because the rooms were “very crunchy”. That is probably why only the Augsburg agency submitted a draft of six invited offices in the end.
"Art is finally coming to the museum"
"Art is finally coming to the museum," said Annegret Harms (SPD). Brigitte Weinzierl (CSU) and Manfred Riederle (FDP) were concerned that the popular museum pedagogy could not find a place. The schoolchildren and kindergarten children continued to learn churning, threshing or washing, he explained, only in other places. "This takes place in the depot, we can offer washing at the fountain on Rathausplatz."
Martin Nieroda (CSU) welcomed this plan, learning in different places was particularly memorable, "that will be remembered". The redesign will "attract more people in the next few years, we will get something here that fits our dimensions."
The Culture Committee unanimously decided to allocate 80,000 euros to the 2020 budget for the artistic and manual redesign and 65,000 euros for the structural redesign. Construction measures and fire protection are coordinated with the construction department.
