Heimatmuseum Markt Schwaben

About the museum

The Schweiger villa was built in 1923/24 for Josef Schweiger, co-owner of a timber company, with echoes of Munich Jugendstil (Art Nouveau). After the death of his widow in 1987, the house passed to the firm Infraplan, which was not allowed to demolish it because of heritage protection, and in 1992 gave it to the market municipality. The Verein Heimatmuseum Markt Schwaben e. V. (local history museum association), founded in 1990, received the house under a usage agreement in 1997; the first open house day took place on August 1, 1997.

For over 25 years, volunteers gradually set up the 15 rooms, with about 450 square meters of living space, as a museum. The final completion was celebrated in July 2024.

The rooms cover, among other things, archaeology from the Ice Age to the Bavarian period, with grave reconstructions; the castle and palace of Schwaben with Wening engravings; costume; a post office parlor; printing and weaving; a classroom; products of the Schwaben porcelain factory; a shoemaker's workshop; and a kitchen around 1920. Two rooms show contemporary history from 1900 to 2000.

Highlights

• Archaeology department with grave reconstructions of a Bell Beaker man and Bavarians
• Rooms on Schwaben Castle and Schwaben Palace with Wening engravings
• Products of the Schwaben porcelain factory
• Old rural school and kitchen around 1920
• Contemporary history from 1900 to 2000
• 360-degree tour online

Permanent exhibitions

• Archäologische Abteilung – The area spans from the Ice Age through the Stone, Bronze, Hallstatt, Celtic and Roman periods to the Bavarian period, with grave reconstructions and grave goods.
• Burg Schwaben und Schloss Schwaben – Wening engravings and objects tell the eventful history of the Schwaben seat of justice.
• Zeitgeschichte 1900 bis 2000 – Two rooms show the town from the time before World War I, through both world wars, to the economic upswing and mobility.

Founded

1997

Operated by

Verein Heimatmuseum Markt Schwaben e. V.

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