Museum Erding

Current exhibitions

About the museum

Museum Erding is one of the oldest municipal museums in Bavaria. Its beginnings go back to master shoemaker and merchant Anton Bachmair, who opened a first display collection to the public in the old granary building in 1856. Following a resolution of the town council in 1873, this grew into the municipal local history museum, which moved into the Grafenstock wing of the town hall in 1902.

During World War II the collections were moved to safe storage and remained largely undamaged. In the 1950s, district heritage curator Eugen Press redesigned the rooms, adding among other things a department on prehistory and early history. Because the town administration needed more space, the museum moved into the listed Antoniusheim on Prielmayerstraße – once a farm building of the Holy Spirit Hospital, the home of Erding's first bell founder, and later a kindergarten; it reopened there in 1986.

After closing in fall 2009, the museum gained a shimmering golden new building in 2010 with exhibition space, storage, and event rooms. By 2014 the old building had been renovated and its exhibitions redesigned. Today the museum presents 7,000 years of archaeology, the town's development since its first mention around 788/790, the loden-weaving and bell-founding trades, stories of everyday life, art from the Erding area, and the Rudolf L. Reiter collection. Since 2012, the museum has also been installing information panels at historic sites in the district.

Highlights

• 7,000 years of archaeology, including the Early Bronze Age rib-ingot hoard of Oberding
• History of Erding's loden-weaving trade
• Bells from the Bachmair foundry in Erding
• "Stadt.Entwicklung" (Town development) from village to major district town
• Room with works by Rudolf L. Reiter
• Free admission

Permanent exhibitions

• Schaufenster Archäologie – EinBlick in Jahrtausende – Finds from the Erding area from the Stone Age to the early Middle Ages, complemented by geology and landscape history.
• Stadt.Entwicklung – Five rooms trace Erding's path from its first mention around 788/790 to today's major district town, with a focus on more recent times.
• Loderer- und Glockengießerhandwerk – The new building presents the town's once important loden production and the work of the Bachmair family of bell founders.

Founded

1856

Operated by

Stadt Erding

Director

Harald Krause

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Free admission. Guided tours €4 per person (adults and children), €2 with the Ehrenamtskarte (volunteer card). Guided tours for school classes from the town of Erding are free.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator
• Accessible restroom
• Accessible parking
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

All levels accessible by elevator; accessible restroom and baby changing room in the basement; loaner wheelchair; two accessible parking spaces 50 m away (Prielmayerstraße 22).

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Baby changing facilities

Children's events and vacation program; tours for kindergartens, schools, and families, followed by a workshop if desired. Baby changing room in the basement.

Getting there & parking

Amenities & dining

• Café
• Restaurant: not available
• Museum shop

Small museum café with fair-trade hot drinks; museum shop with local history literature and the museum's own publications.

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent
• Private parties
• Corporate events

Lecture room with presentation equipment and other rooms for associations, organizations, companies, and private individuals, primarily for cultural, academic, or social events; private and business use only in justified individual cases, no rentals to political parties.

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