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By: Dominik Stallein
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The Wolfratshausen Museum opened on February 11, 2023.
Manager Annekatrin Schulz is pleased with the modern furnishings in the old building.
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The Wolfratshausen Museum was visited by over 4,500 visitors in its first year.
Manager Annekatrin Schulz draws a positive conclusion.
Wolfratshausen – It has lost part of its name and much of its content.
The former “local history museum” has been called just Museum Wolfratshausen for a year now.
The exhibition in Untermarkt 10 has been slimmed down considerably.
There are far fewer exhibits than before in the rooms on the first floor - new lighting and sound effects have been added.
Exactly a year ago, the facility in the corner building on Marktstrasse was officially opened.
Experience history with all your senses and artificial intelligence: The Wolfratshausen Museum
The Wolfratshausen Museum was completely renovated beforehand: visitors can experience an excursion into history with all their senses at many media stations.
There are earpieces with historical recordings, rehearsed texts and stories from Wolfratshausen residents who are still alive.
Guests can touch some of the exhibits - for example an angel's head carved into a picture frame.
At other stations, historical figures come to life through artificial intelligence and talk about their lives in animated videos - Hans Urmiller, for example.
“These multimedia elements are an important part of the presentation,” says museum director Annekatrin Schulz.
A modern museum also needs modern instruments.
And connections are needed in the here and now.
“We want to strengthen this in the coming months.”
For example, through themed rallies through the city, which go with a subsequent tour of the 800 square meters in Untermarkt 10, or through themed tours in Loisachstadt - for example to rafting.
“In the first year we mainly did a lot of overview tours,” says Schulz, meaning tours that show the new facility in its entirety.
“I would like to go into more depth and detail on individual topics in the future,” says the woman from Wolfratshausen.
She doesn’t lead every tour.
With her, five people are involved in the museum and have led a total of 18 tours through the facility - all with their own unique view of the exhibits.
“A former German teacher, for example, has more of a focus on the writers who lived in the mountain forest.” This diversity makes the presentation even more interesting.
Museum Wolfratshausen: Already over 4,600 guests since it opened in February 2023
Over 4,600 people have seen the facility since it opened - most of them on the opening weekend on February 11th and 12th.
The completion of the 5.3 million euro construction project was celebrated with an open weekend and many special events.
Around one million of this went into the completely renovated museum.
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The manager enjoys the modern rooms in the old building: the corner building at Untermarkt 10 has been the seat of the regional court since the mid-18th century.
The so-called care castle was largely destroyed after a fire in 1806 and was subsequently rebuilt.
The building was home to the district court from 1879 to 1962, after which it was a schoolhouse.
The historic building has housed the city's museum since 1977.
The facility has now had company: the new tourist information office will open on the ground floor in 2023.
There you can buy tickets for cultural events and information material about the city and leisure activities.
The “Velvet” café is located in a retail space on the ground floor.
Schulz: “This is an advantage for the museum because visitors can sit down for a coffee after a tour.”
Another area on the ground floor is actively used: the Wallner-Bockhorni cabinet.
This room is part of the museum - but does not have a permanent exhibition.
“Clubs, companies and initiatives can use the space,” explains Schulz.
There have already been seven different temporary exhibitions in the cabinet - including on hyperinflation and the topic of dementia with caricatures by Peter Gaymann.
New series
: The museum director gave our newspaper a tour of the Wolfratshausen Museum.
We present the themed rooms individually in a series.
By the way: Everything from the region is also available in our regular Wolfratshausen-Geretsried newsletter.