Kreismuseum Bitburg-Prüm

Om museet

The museum was founded on August 11, 1929 as the local history museum of the then Bitburg district; the driving force was district administrator Albert Gilles. Today it is run by the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm and counts among the largest regional history museums in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Since 1998 the museum has been based in the so-called Altes Gymnasium (Old Grammar School) on Trierer Straße. The building was constructed from 1880 to 1882 as a higher agricultural school to plans by the royal building councillor Krone and the district building master Peter Josef Julius Wolff, and later served, among other things, as a grammar school and secondary school. After about ten years of vacancy it was modernized and opened as a museum on December 12, 1998.

In 20 rooms on around 1,000 square meters, the exhibition tells of life in the Eifel: archaeological finds from Roman times, a farmhouse kitchen, furniture and agricultural tools, workshops of the wheelwright, tailor, weaver and shoemaker, a tannery, a stonemason's workshop and a village forge. An extensive collection of sacred objects with altars, pulpits and processional banners, works by the painter Mathieu Molitor and evidence of the iron industry round out the picture. Regular special exhibitions take up further topics of regional history.

The house includes a library and an archive that can be used by arrangement – including the Bitburger Zeitung from 1848 to 1942. Since 2023 the museum has also housed thousands of glass negatives by the Kyllburg photographer Joseph Quirin.

Højdepunkter

• Historic workshops of the wheelwright, shoemaker, weaver, tanner and village blacksmith
• Sacred art with altars, pulpits and processional banners
• Works by the Eifel painter Mathieu Molitor
• Archaeological finds from Roman times
• Farmhouse Eifel kitchen and furniture

Permanente udstillinger

• Alltags- und Kulturgeschichte der Eifel – 20 exhibition rooms with finds, workshops, furniture, sacred art, paintings and documents on life in the Eifel from Roman times to the 20th century.

Grundlagt

1929

Ejer

Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Ledelse

Burkhard Kaufmann

Entrépriser & rabatter

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Accessible entrance to the building, accessible exhibition rooms and accessible restroom.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Opgavehæfte, skattejagt eller audioguide for børn

With the museum rally "Spurensuche", children go on a voyage of discovery through 2000 years of history; for grades 3 to 6 there is the museum guide "Johanna fällt aus dem Rahmen". Courses take place during the summer holidays, such as a comic drawing course for 6- to 14-year-olds.

Transport & parkering

Service & spisesteder

• Museumsbutik

Museum shop.

Arrangementer & udlejning

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