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The
Museum of the Town of Hagenow Museum der Stadt Hagenow The museum stands immediately near the Church of the Town in the Old Town of Hagenow. An active voluntary group of craftsmen, craftswomen, and conservationists within the acquaintance circle of Kuno Karls, an optician, founded this Museum in military living quarters. This organisation, supported by the municipality, was handed over its present premises in 1983. The imposing half-timbered building which includes a distillery is situated in the Hauptstrasse (Main Street) and on the Lange Strasse (Long Street). It is a part of the buildings placed under historic conservation order as well as both one-storied-houses in stair-form, one of them belonged to Brandt, the hat-maker, the other to town hall civil-servant on the old market, called today Kirchstrasse (Church Street). All these houses, carrying a frontal inscription, carved over their entrances, represent typical Hagenow side-street-homes. The ancient barn with granary and cattle stable is a reminder of the husbandry of land-tilling that took place here. The collections pertaining to the history of the town and the village handicrafts and trades as well as the cultural manifestations from the villages of South-West-Mecklenburg comprise thousands of objects. The ethnologic collection of artefacts from the villages of the region ‘Jabelheide’ at the heart of the so-called ‘Griesen’-Region are one of the focal points. |
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The permanent
exhibition shows, amongst others, objects discovered dated as early
prehistoric, stone age or early history. The Wittenburg living room and the Hagenow shoe-maker shop stem from the time around 1900 and are reconstructed absolutely exactly up to the smallest of details. Exhibitions on village life, on the flax culture and the manufacture of linen are further subjects in focus, as are the kitchen dating form the middle of the 19th Century and from the time around 1930/40 as well as Jewish life at the time in Hagenow. |
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exhibition ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ reminds of the
struggle to overcome post-war scarcity. A soldier’s room as well as
documents in the form of texts or pictures dealing with the troops’
culture in the GDR-Army convey one aspect of GDR-every day life. Special exhibitions are held in the ancient distillery, used today as a gallery. At the moment, in Rick’s, the municipal servant’s house, a corridor kitchen dated 1900 as well as a room, furnished true to life as a witness of village living culture in the ‘Griesen’-Region of around 1850 are being installed. The reconstruction of a Hagenow agricultural machines making-and-repair shop with original transmitters and machines dating from 1930 will be introduced in the next years in stables which will be used as a museum. The circle of friends of the Hagenow Museum e. V: (Registered Society) publishes the magazine series: "Schriftenreihe des Museums" ( The Museum Manuscripts) and "Blaetter zur Kulturgeschichte und Volkskunde Suedwestmecklenburgs" (Pages on the History of Culture and Ethnography of South-West-Mecklenburg) . |
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