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AMBERG.MUSEUM

AMBERG.MUSEUM

History of the museum

LOCAL MUSEUM

The municipal Heimatmuseum (local museum) was founded by Clement Schinhammer (1865–1934) in 1902. In the beginning, it was located in the city hall and already included 524 paintings and objects. In 1934, the museum expanded and moved to the so called Klösterl (little convent). The reopening took place on 7th of November 1937. The museum was opened on every first Sunday of each month. Admission fees were 10 copper pfennigs for adults and only 5 copper pfennigs for children.

During the Second World War the museum was closed until the 21th of February 1947. In the 1970s the name was changed from Heimatmuseum (local museum) to Stadtmuseum (municipal museum). In 1982, the city council voted to move the museum to the historic Baustadel (granary and armory), which was renovated and converted to a museum.

ESTABLISHING THE STADTMUSEUM

After the collections were stored in a local gym between 1986 and 1988 they were moved to the Baustadel in late 1988. The reopening took place on the 7th of July 1989. Exactly three years later, permanent exhibitions about clothing, handicraft and industrial history were added. In 2001/2002 the museum was expanded substantially. The historic Baustadel was given a modern addition for the Bavarian State Exhibition Der Winterkönig (the Winter King) in 2003.

From 2005 onward several more permanent exhibitions were established: The so called Prechtl-Kabinett (Prechtl- cabinet), Das Kurfürstliche Amberg (Electoral Amberg), Ansichtssache – das Bild der Stadt (a matter of perspective – images of a city), Einkaufen in Amberg (going shopping in Amberg) and Unser Amberger Bier (Beer made in Amberg). On the second floor the archaeological museum of the Upper Palatinate was located from 2005 to 2014. In 2015/2016, the Prechtl-cabinet about the famous artist Michael Mathias Prechtl was expanded and moved to a larger space. In 2019, an exhibition about the board game Mensch ärgere Dich nicht® (ludo/parcheesi) and its inventor Josef Friedrich Schmidt (1871–1948) was established.