Fränkisches Museum Feuchtwangen

Over het museum

The museum's roots go back to 1902, when the Verein für Volkskunst und Volkskunde (association for folk art and folklore) was founded in Feuchtwangen on the initiative of Dr. Hans Güthlein. It aimed to collect, preserve and publicly display the material culture of Franconia's rural population. Significant acquisitions were made in the very first years, such as the late Gothic Anna altar from Sachsbach and a Rococo fire engine from Herrieden; with purchased private collections, the foundation of the faience and folk art collection came into being.

In 1926 the collection moved into a late medieval half-timbered house in the old town. There, middle-class living rooms from the Baroque to the Art Nouveau period, farmhouse parlors and an original smoke kitchen show how people lived in town and country. As early as the 1920s, Bavarian heritage conservation praised the Feuchtwangen collection; because of its supraregional significance, the house later received the name Fränkisches Museum.

In 1965 a three-story annex was added, built on the site of the Feuchtwangen synagogue destroyed in 1938, which the museum commemorates today. Further expansions created a museum garden with a flax-breaking house, a hammer forge, a horse-driven gin and an equipment barn. After a general renovation, a new foyer and a new exhibition building, the museum reopened in 2008 in its present form with more than 2,000 square meters of space. The association remains the operator to this day. The museum also includes the craftsmen's rooms above the Romanesque cloister and the hands-on workshop Sommers Alte Druckerei (Sommer's Old Print Shop).

Hoogtepunten

• Faience collection with more than 700 pieces, mainly from Ansbach, Schrezheim and Crailsheim
• Late Gothic altar from Sachsbach from the workshop of Michael Wolgemut
• Baroque fire engine from Herrieden
• Coin hoard from the time of the Peasants' Wars
• Living rooms from the Baroque to Art Nouveau, farmhouse parlors and an original smoke kitchen
• Museum garden with hammer forge, flax-breaking house and horse-driven gin

Vaste collectie

• Facetten fränkischer Identität – Everyday culture in Protestant-influenced Middle Franconia from the 17th to the 19th century: town living rooms, farmhouse parlors, furniture, traditional costumes, faience and love tokens.
• Handwerkerstuben – Original workshops of a confectioner, a blue-dye printer, a potter, a pewterer, a shoemaker and a weaver above the cloister of the former Benedictine monastery; guided tour only.
• Sommers Alte Druckerei – Hands-on workshop with historical typesetting and printing machines up to the Linotype, where visitors can print themselves under guidance.

Opgericht

1902

Beheerder

Verein für Volkskunst und Volkskunde Feuchtwangen e. V.

Directie

Dr. Uta Karrer

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

The prices apply to the permanent exhibition; anyone visiting only a special exhibition pays no admission.

Toegankelijkheid

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Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
• Doe- en voelstations

Educational activities for children and school classes with replicas and objects to touch: waffle baking on the historic stove (ages 6–14), glass painting (ages 6–10), candle dipping, blue dyeing in the craftsmen's rooms (ages 8–14) and printing with lead type in Sommers Alte Druckerei (ages 6–14). Registration by phone at 09852 615224.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

The museum is in the heart of the old town; the associated craftsmen's rooms are next to the tourist information office on the Marktplatz.

Service & horeca

Museum garden for relaxing.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

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