More members, more visitors: Sisi Museum on the up again

Created: 12/23/2022, 11:05 am

By: Stephan Müller-Wendlandt

The pandemic seems to have survived well: visitors to the Sisi Museum in Pöcking.

© Dagmar Rutt

The Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Museum in Possenhofen takes stock: the sponsoring association survived the pandemic with a black eye.

Pöcking

- Things are looking up again at the Empress Elisabeth Museum in Possenhofen.

The sponsoring association survived the corona pandemic with a black eye.

After an almost complete standstill in 2020, the numbers are again marking an upward curve, both in terms of visitors and finances.

The board presented the balance sheet for 2021 on Wednesday evening at the general meeting in the Hotel-Kaiserin-Elisabeth in Feldafing.

It is a rarity that Rosemarie Mann-Stein, managing director of the museum and chairwoman of the association, is absent from one of its events.

But she directed nonetheless, albeit remotely as she is in rehab after an accident.

Vice Chair Margit Link presented the presentation she designed with the most important key data for the 2021 financial year to the members.

Pleasing: The number of members increased to 97 in 2021 compared to the previous year.

The number of museum visitors has exploded.

It has increased more than tenfold from 2020 (284 people) to 2021 (2851 people).

This trend has continued in the current year.

By December 16, 4,614 Sisi supporters and other interested parties had visited the museum in the Possenhofen station building.

Chairman Mann-Stein is optimistic.

"We very much hope that we can be fully operational again," she wrote in her annual report as an outlook for 2023.

Treasurer Dr.

To report to Ulrich March.

Fixed assets increased by more than 10,000 to 226,631.71 euros in 2021.

The income statement closes on December 31, 2021 at 10,404.96 euros.

At the end of the previous year there was still a minus of 2750.80 euros in the cash book.

The year 2021 was richer in activities again.

The tour guide in German was presented at the end of February.

The translation into six languages ​​was complete by the end of April, thanks to the commitment of the volunteer museum guides.

The association presented the homepage, which has been adapted to the Corona conditions, on April 4th.

After the municipal council approved the concept for guiding visitors under Corona conditions, which had been developed since mid-March, the museum was allowed to open its doors again in mid-2021.

The video guide for the deaf and disabled as an app was on the agenda in July.

On December 30, the association registered the receipt of the last donations, which screwed up the annual result to 8456 euros.