Deutsches Hutmuseum Lindenberg

Over het museum

Hat making has shaped Lindenberg in the Western Allgäu since the 16th century. According to tradition, a horse dealer who had to spend the winter in Italy brought straw plaiting back from there. From the mid-18th century, production and trade were organized, and around 1830 the first factories appeared. Around 1890, more than 30 businesses produced millions of straw hats a year, and in the early 20th century Lindenberg was considered the center of the German men's straw hat industry.

After a crisis in the 1920s, the firms turned to felt and other materials, but the increasingly hatless fashion of the 1960s and 1970s brought most businesses to a standstill. In 1997 the town bought the grounds of the former Ottmar Reich hat factory, whose four-story factory building with chimney and boiler house, built in 1923 by Philipp Jakob Manz, has been preserved as an industrial monument.

After its conversion into a cultural factory, the Deutsches Hutmuseum opened there in December 2014; it received the Bavarian Museum Prize as early as 2015 and was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award in 2016. The foundation is a collection on hat culture built up over decades. On just under 1,000 square meters, the permanent exhibition leads through hat making, town history, and hat fashion; the building also houses the tourist information office, the museum restaurant Kesselhaus, and the event hall Kulturboden.

Hoogtepunten

• Glass walk-in manufacturing shelf on hat making
• Art installation "Huttornado" with swirling white hats
• 300 years of hat fashion from straw hat to felt hat
• Listed Ottmar Reich hat factory from 1923
• Hands-on stations, children's audio guide, and activity booklet

Vaste collectie

• Dauerausstellung: Hutstadt, Hutherstellung und Hutmode – Two levels tell of home work, hat factories, and Lindenberg's rise to hat town. A glass manufacturing cube shows how hats are made, the "Huttornado" three centuries of hat fashion.

Opgericht

2014

Beheerder

Stadt Lindenberg i. Allgäu

Directie

Angelika Schreiber

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Audio guide €2.50, activity booklet for children €2. The Allgäu-Walser-Pass, Erlebnis-Bodensee-Card, and Bodensee-Card-Plus are accepted.

Toegankelijkheid

• Rolstoeltoegankelijk
• Lift
• Aangepast toilet
• Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats: geen informatie
• Hulphonden welkom
• Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
• Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
• Informatie in eenvoudige taal
• Audiodescriptie: geen informatie

Awarded the certificate "Reisen für Alle – Barrierefreiheit geprüft" (Travel for All – Accessibility Tested). Ground-level entrance with door-opener button, elevator to all levels, tables that can be rolled under, and mobile seating. To protect the objects, the exhibition is very dimly lit. Tours for people with visual impairments and in Easy Language on request.

Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
• Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour
• Doe- en voelstations
• Verschoonruimte
• Kinderfeestjes

Children's audio guide with the characters Louisa and Hutbert, activity booklet for ages 6 to 11, and hands-on stations. Monthly family tour with a straw plaiting activity, hat party children's birthday parties for ages 6 to 12 (Sat/Sun, €15 per child). Programs for daycare centers from age 4 and school classes. Member of the Familien-Museen Allgäu.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

By car via the A7 and A96 (toward Lindau) to exit Wangen-Nord, then follow the signs for about 18 km. Nearest airports: Friedrichshafen (approx. 40 km) and Memmingen (approx. 60 km).

Service & horeca

• Restaurant
• Museumwinkel
• Wifi

Museum restaurant "Kesselhaus" right at the museum (Wed–Sat from 17:00, Sun from 11:30, closed Mon/Tue). Museum shop with hats and souvenirs, tourist information office in the building, free city Wi-Fi.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

• Ruimtes te huur
• Privéfeesten
• Zakelijke evenementen
• Bruiloften / trouwceremonies

Tot 199 personen.

Kulturboden in the attic with stage and grand piano for up to 199 people (concert seating), rental €390 per day including foyer. The restaurant Kesselhaus (approx. 70 seats, terrace approx. 70) is also available for celebrations.

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