Sandelsches Museum
City museum in the Baroque Latin school of 1748 with donor collections, paintings from Kirchberg, and geology and paleontology in the basement.
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About the museum
The museum goes back to the bequest of the Kirchberg judicial councillor Theodor Sandel, who donated his collections to the town. They include furniture, paintings, faience, pewter, weapons, coins, prehistoric finds, as well as crafts and furnishings from North Africa. The Sandelsches Museum opened at Kirchstraße 19 in 1930; since 1973 it has been housed in the former Latin school of 1748.
Later donations were added, including parts of the estate of the writer G. Harro Schaeff-Scheefen, objects from Cameroon collected by the colonial officer Kurt von Crailsheim, and estates of Kirchberg painters. In 2012 a Hohenlohe library of around 1,600 books and a flint collection followed.
After a thorough renovation in 2002/2003, the house reopened in 2004 with a new arrangement; it received the Baden-Württemberg state museum prize and in 2007 was honored as a model "Vorbildliches Heimatmuseum" (exemplary local history museum). The town is the sponsor, and the volunteer Museums- und Kulturverein supervises the museum.
Highlights
- Traces of the Kirchberg fault in the basement
- 250,000-year-old forest rhinoceros from the Kirchberg municipal area
- Picture gallery of Kirchberg views and "Romantik in Kirchberg"
- Donor rooms with Biedermeier furnishings and North Africa collection
- Hohenlohe library with around 1,600 books
- Schlözer room on the historian August Ludwig von Schlözer
Permanent exhibitions
- Geologie und Paläontologie (Untergeschoss) – Earth history with the visible traces of the Kirchberg fault, about 20 million years old, and finds such as the forest rhinoceros.
- Kirchberger Kunst und Stifter (2. Obergeschoss) – Picture gallery with views of Kirchberg, works by Kirchberg painters, the study of Schaeff-Scheefen, and rooms on the donors Sandel, Schaeff-Scheefen and von Crailsheim.
- August Ludwig von Schlözer (3. Obergeschoss) – Room for the historian and publicist of the Enlightenment born in Kirchberg-Gaggstatt, next to the visible storage depot.
- Founded
- 1930
- Operated by
- Stadt Kirchberg an der Jagst
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
Free admission; donations are welcome.
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| Good to know | Guided tours for groups by arrangement. |
