It's going to be nice!

The new Freising City Museum is a great success

Created: 10/22/2022, 3:00 p.m

In the future, museum visitors will be able to take a walk through the eventful history of Freising on 750 square meters.

© Visualisation: City of Freising/Wollmann and Mang

The new city museum has already impressed the councilors during the virtual tour.

An overview of what the people of Freising can expect.

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- The next museum highlight for Freising after the Diocesan Museum is in the starting blocks - namely the opening of the city museum in the Asam building in 2024. City historian Ulrike Götz took the city councilors through virtually for the approval of exhibition planning, furnishings, components and materials of the exhibition rooms by the culture committee her new museum.

Once again, one thing became clear: this museum will be the next big thing.

Upholstered furniture to relax

"We want to present the Museum Freising and its history in an eventful way," explained Götz in the introduction - and this should start in front of the Asam building with digital information stands, where upcoming events can then be communicated.

The life of the city is to be traced with permanent and special exhibitions on an area of ​​around 750 square meters in the interior, and a museum education area will also be available for workshops and school classes.

While small stools will probably be found in the exhibition rooms, larger upholstered furniture should offer enough space to take a breather in the spacious quiet zone after walking through three wings of the building - and that with a view of Marienplatz.

"The museum will be barrier-free, with the exception of the smallest areas, which unfortunately cannot be reached by wheelchair users, for example," Götz continued.

What visitors can also look forward to: there will be numerous media stations in the new city museum, where additional information about the originals on display can be called up, as well as a museum shop for various souvenirs after the tour of Freising's history.

Graphic originals can also be admired

What will there be to see in the new city museum?

Götz clarified: "It will start with the agricultural conditions in the city and the early days of Freising."

In addition to showing handicraft culture from the Baroque period, the city museum also wants to come up with a book department.

"Unfortunately, the precious Freising books have all migrated to the State Library," Götz explained, explaining why the books in the museum can be researched digitally - in complete contrast to the "Graphic Cabinet", in which the graphic originals can be admired up close via drawer cabinets be able.

Lots of space for the time of National Socialism

The special exhibition rooms are hung with special curtains while they are being set up, through which the busy activities of the museum staff can be observed via "portholes".

"What we will also show is the transition from the 18th to the 19th century, which is left out in many museums - but we also want to show the breaks here," emphasized Götz.

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In the last large room of the museum, the view is then drawn to the current Freising, so that the circle will be closed - from the beginnings to the present day.

"There will be a large aerial view of Freising on the floor, on which every citizen can find their house," Götz announced, not entirely without pride.

But the absolute highlight of the museum is a Freising telescope from the baroque period, which is also intended to be a symbol of openness and looking beyond borders and horizons.

Günther: That will be the place in Freising!

The exhibition on “Freising in times of National Socialism” will probably be larger than originally planned, as Götz emphasized.

There was also thanks from Susanne Günther (Greens), who very much welcomed an increase in this important topic.

"We are making great strides towards the opening," continued Günther, for whom the City Museum will be an "eye-catcher" and a "distinctive place for those interested in art and culture".

She went even further in her praise: "It will be the place in Freising!"

What Charlotte Reitsam (Greens) missed during the virtual tour, however, was a critical examination of the airport construction - because this "break" had changed the city's history permanently.

Götz was able to calm things down here: "The subject of the airport is of course planned - including the ambivalence that goes with it."

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