Friends of the Museum

The Museum of Ancient Cultures | Collections in Hohentübingen Castle can be your museum, too: Since 1998, the Association of Friends (Verein der Freunde) of the Museum in Hohentübingen Castle funds the museum-educational and scientific work in the museum.

The Association

It enables museum-educational offers in the museum through a provision of necessary display and work material. It funds special exhibitions, in order to present the magazine inventory of the museum to a wider public through new perspectives. It supports acquisition and development of new presentation forms and media, so as to increase the attractiveness of the permanent exhibition. It also participates in the publication of the exponents through financial support of exhibition catalogues and collection brochures.

Through an active association work, the association would also like to encourage private collectors to continue the century-old tradition of foundations at the university.

Its Advantages

Our members have free admission to all departments of the museum, they take part in several tour offers free of charge and are personally invited to special events. In addition, the association provides a glimpse behind the scenes of the museum. It offers insight into the individual collections and allows an up close experience of the work on special exhibitions.

Association trips present numerous museums of Southern Germany, and alongside an exclusive tour program, for example the summer presentations by the Classical Archaeology, the general meeting also offers each one a special thematic highlight.

A compilation of all treasures of the month presented in the museum is sent to the association members free of charge at the end of the year.

The Executive Board

The executive board of the association is made up of three members who are voted for by the general association for the duration of two years. As a member of the advisory board.

Gunter Sieglin: Chairman of the Board since 2019

Hartmut Kilger: Deputy Chairman and Secretary of the Association

Jörg Textor: Treasurer of the association

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Contact

MUT | Ancient Cultures | Collections in Hohentübingen Castle
Burgsteige 11
72070 Tübingen

Tel: 07071 / 29-77384
Fax: 07071 / 29-5659

museumsvereinvisdp.uni-tuebingen.de

Contribution and Donation Account

Volksbank Tübingen eG
Kto. Nr.: 22827 005
BLZ: 641 901 10
IBAN: DE64 6419 0110 0022 8270 05

ACTIVITIES

2016

1.12.2016: Lecture Hall Classical Archaeology: Presentation Professor Friedhelm Prayon “Two Etruscan new additions – presents of a villanovan urn and book presentation ‘Castellina de Marangone’”

5.12.2016: Tour through the Zoological Display Collection by the custodian in charge, Sir Dr. Erich Weber

2015

14.2.2015: Association trip to the newly opened Prehistoric Museum in Blaubeuren and to the Department of the Lion Man in the Ulm City Museum

22.7.2015: Exchange with the Funding Association of the Philological Seminar, part 1 (Tour through the Department for Classical Archaeology with guided tour by Dr. Kathrin B. Zimmer)

11.2015: Exchange with the Funding Association of the Philological Seminar, part 2 (Presentation by Ms. Prof. Dr. Anja Wolkenhauer)

FUNDED PROJECTS

2017

Print subsidy „From the Reproduction to the Reconstruction“ (Institute for Classical Archaeology)
Signage head of Augustus (Institute for Classical Archaeology)
Museum Day Stonemasonry Workshop Pfanner (Institute for Classical Archaeology)
Technical Infrastructure Exhibition “Origins” (MUT | Ancient Cultures”)

2016

Redactional work (Institute for Classical Archaeology)

2015

New display case in the round tower on the topic “Deceptively Real” (costs for the lettering)
4 new display cases for the didactic theme islands in the Knight’s Hall (acquisition costs)
New intercom system for openings in the chapel and special exhibitions in the Knight’s Hall (acquisition costs)

2014

Support for the special exhibition Colourful Gods. The Colourfulness of Ancient Sculptures, 11.04.2014- 15.01.2015 (costs for the opening)
Support for the special exhibition Opener. Headliner Stories of German Magazines, 12.07.2014-28.09.2014 (participation in material costs)
Support for the special exhibition Experiencing Science with Art. Print from the Heide and Wolfgang Voelter Collection, 07.11.2014-15.02.2015 (participation in material costs)
Bistro tables and tablecloths for festive occasions in the museum (acquisition costs)

2013

Support for the special exhibition Deceptively Real, 11.11.2013- 09.03.2014 (assumption of transport and material costs, TL analyses of 7 terracotta from the collection)
Cast of a bust of Cleopatra (Vatican)
Metal supports in the western courtyard for the presentation of the steadily growing Casting Collection (costs for acquisition and assembly)

2012

Conversions in the field of prehistory and early history, as a result of which the Vogelherd figures present themselves in a new light (cost sharing)

2011

Completion of the inscription in the Original and Plaster Cast Collection (assumption of costs)
Special exhibition The Sky, Wishful Image and World Understanding, 15.3.2011-3.10.2011 (participation in material costs)
New lighting fixtures in the Knight’s Hall (assumption of costs)
Expansion of the museum’s educational equipment: armor of a Roman legionnaire, ancient games and clothing (acquisition costs)