Museums in Baden-Württemberg are open, including the Franziskanermuseum. The 3G rule currently applies to museum visits: Proof of full vaccination, recovery, or a negative test result is required. In addition, contact information will be collected at the museum ticket office.
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Starting now, you can discover the Celtic princely tomb in a whole new way!
Just stop by, borrow a tablet for free at the museum ticket office, and immerse yourself in the Celtic world of the augmented reality game “GeheimnisGräberei.” No technical knowledge is required—just a little time and curiosity to solve simple tasks and follow the chat on the tablet. Many secrets of Magdalenenberg are revealed in this way, and innovative 3D reconstructions offer a glimpse of what the contents of the princely burial chamber looked like over 2,600 years ago.
The project was funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts as part of the program “Digital Transformation at Non-State Museums in Rural Areas.” Our partner NUMENA handled the implementation, and the 3D reconstructions were created by Archäologische Illustrationen.
In her final curator-led tour of the special exhibition, Anita Auer highlights the exhibition’s key works and takes visitors on a journey through the “Golden Twenties” of the last century.
Admission and the tour cost €7; reduced rate €5.
Postcards, posters, and a magazine related to the exhibition are available.
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Peter Graßmann will guide the group to the largest Celtic burial mound, the Villinger Magdalenenberg. The tour begins at the Franciscan Museum, where the original wooden burial chamber—the size of a two-room apartment—is on display in the “Celtic Princely Tomb at Magdalenenberg” section. Afterward, the group walks together to the burial mound. Once there, visitors learn about the site’s illustrious past as a “witches’ dancing ground” and a place haunted by spirits, the challenges of the two excavations, and some of the mysteries and secrets that remain unsolved to this day.
Admission and the guided tour cost €7; reduced rate €5.
Starting point: Franziskanermuseum
The special exhibition “The 1920s as Reflected by Villingen’s Modernist Artists” concludes on Sunday, September 26, with a special guided tour led by Prof. Ulrich Heinzmann. As a representative of the Heinzmann family of collectors, he will present the artistic work and living conditions of the four painters—Ludwig Engler, Waldemar Flaig, Richard Ackermann, and Paul Hirt—from a unique perspective.
Admission and the guided tour cost €7; reduced rate €5.
On Sunday, October 24, the festival will be held under the theme “Journey Through Time” in cooperation with the historical modeling agency Sissis Erben, featuring—as always—music, children’s activities, guided tours, and much more. A special feature of this year’s Museum Festival will be that throughout the city, in shops and restaurants, guests will be dressed in the fashions of bygone eras.
We would like to thank our supporters: Sparkasse Schwarzwald-Baar, the Friends of the Municipal Museums in Villingen-Schwenningen, and the Villingen-Schwenningen Regional Chamber of Commerce.
This small exhibition, on view through September 19, showcases tools and creations from an ancient craft: bookbinding. Participants in a vhs course are displaying their work in the display cases of the cloister at the Franziskaner.
On Saturday, September 4, there will be demonstrations using an embossing machine and a stitching machine.
Admission is free
Christina Ludwig, former research assistant at the Franciscan Museum, published her dissertation this summer. “The Signature of the Black Forest: Folkloric Collecting around 1900, as Exemplified by the Amateur Scholar Oskar Spiegelhalder (1864–1925)” is the title of the new publication from Waxmann Verlag. A large part of Oskar Spiegelhalder’s collection is on display in the Black Forest section of the Franciscan Museum. Christina Ludwig, now director of the Dresden City Museum, has researched how everyday objects came to be museum artifacts.
The new book is available in bookstores for €34.90.
The Franziskanermuseum’s gift shop sells the two museum volumes on Oskar Spiegelhalder’s Black Forest collection:
Anita Auer, Reinhold Krämer, Through the Eyes of the Collector. The Black Forest Collection of Oskar Spiegelhalder (1864–1925), 1999, €15.00
Michaela Haibl, Gudrun König, Anita Auer, et al., The Collector’s Passions: Oskar Spiegelhalder as an Amateur Scholar, 2015, €15.00
The special exhibition “Trophy and Six-Pack: Sports in Industrial Society” will conclude on Sunday, September 26, 2021, with a program of athletic activities such as a penny-farthing workshop, Tipp-Kick goal-shooting, and a slow-cycling race.
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