Heimatmuseum Simbach am Inn
Local history museum in the former rent and finance office from 1834, with town, Inn and railway history, costumes and works by Josef Karl Nerud; free admission.
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About the museum
The Heimatmuseum Simbach am Inn was set up in 1912 as a district museum in the tower rooms of the town hall. Since May 1987 it has been housed in the former rent and finance office, a listed building from 1834. There, the collections were reorganized according to scholarly principles together with the Förderkreis (support circle) and the Landesstelle für nichtstaatliche Museen (state office for non-state museums).
The permanent exhibition is dedicated to the history of the town, from its first mention in 927 through its destruction in 1743 and the railway construction of 1870/71, to industrialization, the Inn with its bridges and floods, and the Simbach flood of 2016. Further sections show costume and gold bonnets (Goldhauben), the town's inventors and pioneers, the railway and border town with 150 years of railway history, sacred art, a chronicle from 1864, and a gallery of around 50 works by the Simbach-born artist Josef Karl Nerud.
The museum also presents special exhibitions several times a year.
Highlights
- Town history of Simbach from its first mention in 927
- The Inn as lifeline: bridges, ferries and floods
- 150 years of railway and border station history with models
- Costume and gold bonnet embroidery
- Gallery with around 50 works by Josef Karl Nerud
- Early motorcycles of the Aufschläger brothers (around 1895)
Permanent exhibitions
- Ständige Ausstellung zur Stadtgeschichte – Urban development, the Inn, costume and gold bonnets, inventors, the railway and border town, and sacred art.
- Galerie Josef Karl Nerud – Around 50 oil paintings, watercolors and drawings by the Simbach-born artist from all phases of his career.
- Bahnhofs- und Grenzstadt Simbach – Newly designed section on 150 years of railway history, with models, exhibits and information panels.
- Founded
- 1912
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
Admission to the permanent exhibition and to the opening receptions (vernissages) is free.
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