Alamanmuseum Elwanngen shall be closed

[Sindri]

Dear Friends,

this Museum, primarliy showing merovingian artefacts, shall be closed in near future because of great gaps in the communebudget.
This is a grat political absurdity. The disabilaty of our Politicians berefts us from our historical heritage! Where else, as in Museums, we can take a look into the older past?

Please vote for preservation of this Museum and use the underneath link...

http://www.schwaebische.de/lokales/aale ... 00087.html

We´re already losers of the worlds commercial crisis, now we´re going to become losers a second time, when politics will steal our past

I can´t understand such considerations, because culture bears civilisation!

[Robert Vermaat]

Hi Nina,

I agree, it would be a great loss.
Could you post that link again? It does not seem to work.

[Sindri]

I hope it works now

[Robert Vermaat]

It does. I vote no, as did 93% of the voters..

Maybe, if Ellwangen persists with this, another city should take the museum. Passau, maybe? München?

[Simplex]

....just voted for that museum.
But seriously folks, what do you expect?!
The Alamannenmuseum and other museum in Baden-Würtemberg were planned, conceived and built when "Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Würtemberg" had twice the pages as nowadays, the budget of this particular federal state >EDIT: for historical and archeological affairs, of course < was so high that you could nearly fund the complete czech and polish >EDIT: archeological< budgets of today, and we had a Landesdenkmalamt which got liquidated in 2004 with the remaining parts assigned to the regional governing bodies (Regierungspräsidien).
If I were to go deeper into the backgrounds this thread probably would be locked for "politicalizing". (And I'd have a certain amount of sympathy for that. :wink: )
But if I see what scottish government authorities have been planning to do to their universities ( if I got DB Campbell completely right here : link from old RAT) I have my doubts whether we have the right perspective here.
In a fit of pragmatism, however, I'd also say: Stuttgart gets my vote for being a suitable backup.
(Anyway there's already the largest assortment of fibula from the early middle-ages I ever saw )
Robert, -- "schwäbische" property for the Bavarians ?! hock:
They have already occupied nearly half of the "schwäbische" soil ! :wink:


Greez

Simplex

EDIT 30May2010: Clarified, which budget I meant.

[Robert Vermaat]

Robert, -- "schwäbische" property for the Bavarians ?! hock:
They have already occupied nearly half of the "schwäbische" soil ! :wink:

Why not? The Alamanni also once occupied almost all of Bavarian soil... except that the Bavarians originated only after the Alamanni left. :mrgreen:

[Sindri]

new news...
http://www.schwaebische.de/lokales/aale ... 02509.html

[Simplex]

I think we should note:
Those declared dead live longer. (Totgesagte leben länger)
http://www.ellwangen.de/2406_DEU_WWW.php (In German)
http://www.ostalbkreis.de/sixcms/detail....=-1&id=219 that one with a preview/guide (In German)
http://www.ostalbkreis.de/sixcms/detail....sfuehrer=1
....and they got at least one interesting exhibition (that has just been prolonged till 23rd of October 2011)
http://www.ellwangen.de/4609_DEU_WWW.php...sh[start]=
"Alamanni on the Eastern Alb -- Early settlers between Lauchheim and Niederstotzingen".
Yes and for those who'd like to support them directly--- they got a shop :
http://shop.alamannenmuseum-ellwangen.de/
Sometimes such things DO have an happy ending. mile:
If I'm in that area in July I'll probably go and visit them.

Enjoy

Simplex

[Simplex]

....update .
My joy was too prematurely.
Here:
http://www.schwaebische.de/region/ostalb...95955.html
....it says they'll be cutting the additional funding in half for 2012.
They only had ca. 8600 visitors last year (~8350 the year before) instead of 10000 at average as expected 10 years ago when they opened.(They had ~16000 visitors that year, logging a total of 50000 in 2006)
No special exhibitions anymore ?
The custos can't make a living out of his job anymore ( ca. 30% of a full paid job !)
Sad news.

Greez

Simplex