To wrap up Carnival 2022, the Franciscan Museum invites you to visit its current special exhibition featuring Ingeborg Jaag’s cheerful Carnival figures through Sunday, March 6.
Opening hours and current guidelines for visiting the museum:
Carnival Monday, February 28, through Saturday, March 5, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 6, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Effective immediately, the 3G rule applies again for museum visits.
In 2022, the Franciscan Museum will continue its “In the Spotlight” tour series, inviting a special guest each quarter. This year’s first guest is Karin Neubarth-Raub, the new chairwoman of the Friends of the Municipal Museums in Villingen-Schwenningen e.V. During a short guided tour, she will present her favorite object from the permanent exhibition. Visitors can look forward to discovering which exhibit she has chosen.
Afterward, the Friends Association invites interested guests to mingle and enjoy refreshments at the café in the Franziskaner. During the conversation, attendees will also have the opportunity to learn about the work of the Friends Association and find out more about the planned excursions for 2022.
Admission is free.
For 10 groups, the Franciscan Museum will become a selfie museum. With the help of backdrops and props, participants can imitate the poses and gestures of historical figures. A photographer and a graphic designer will offer advice on taking photos and editing images. The results can be posted on the museum’s Instagram channel.
After an introduction to the history of self-presentation, participants will explore four portraits from the city history collection—there’s a lot to learn from them.
The following dates are available, each from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.:
April 12, April 26, May 10, May 24, May 31, June 21, July 5, July 14, July 19, July 26, 2022
. Maximum of 15 people per session; register by calling 07721 / 82-2351
or emailing franziskanermuseum@villingen-schwenningen.de
Please bring your own smartphone!
A free program sponsored by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts
Preparations for the special exhibition “KULT(UR)WALD: The Settlement of the Black Forest” are in full swing. In cooperation with the Forestry Office of the City of Villingen-Schwenningen, a particularly large-scale exhibit—a dugout canoe—is currently being built in time for the exhibition’s opening on May 14. The trainees are recreating this narrow type of boat, which is seven meters long. The model is an early medieval dugout canoe that was discovered in 1929 during the construction of the Schluchsee dam. The dugout canoe, which was likely used for fishing, is evidence of the early settlement of the Black Forest.
If you’d like to learn more, follow us on social media, where we’ll be sharing updates on the project in a series of posts.
This year’s Carnival season educational programs at the Franziskanermuseum concluded with overwhelmingly positive results. The huge turnout of young visitors was particularly encouraging. More than 400 children from 24 groups—including schools, kindergartens, and daycare centers—visited the Franziskanermuseum. Museum educator Verena Duschek shared plenty of interesting facts about Villingen’s Carnival in an age-appropriate way. During the creative portion of the program, the young participants were able to make their own carnival stick puppets and use them to form a small carnival parade. As they left the Franziskanermuseum, the “Narromarsch” and carnival chants continued to echo through the streets of downtown.
