75 Years of Heimathaus Foundation at City Museum Heimathaus Traunstein

75 Years of Heimathaus Foundation: An Evening for History, Identity, and Future

A profound anniversary: On March 25, 2026, the City Museum Heimathaus Traunstein invites you to an evening of lectures on the founding idea, the work, and the cultural-historical significance of the Heimathaus Foundation. The speaker is Hans Helmberger, long-time chairman of the Historical Association for the Chiemgau in Traunstein, who knows the creation and development first-hand and provides a pointed context. Admission is free, registration is requested.

Historical Foundations: From Idea to Institution

From the initiative of the Historical Association in 1951 emerged a legally established foundation that supports the Heimathaus as a museum, place of remembrance, and forum for historical and art-historical exhibitions. The focus of the evening's consideration is on the foundation's purpose, statutes, and curatorial practice: the preservation of local knowledge, promotion of historical research, sustainable safeguarding of foundation assets, and a professionally qualified museum management. This creates an exhibition atmosphere where objects, spaces, and narratives work together in a precisely curated manner.

Aesthetic Experience at Heimathaus

Those who know the collections are aware of the sensory richness: sacred art from the Gothic period to the 20th century, bourgeois portraits between Baroque and Biedermeier, city models, craft and saltworks artifacts. Colors, surfaces, and materials unfold a special spatial effect in the Brothausturm and Zieglerwirtschaft. The lecture contextualizes these collections art-historically and shows how curation, lighting, and object presentation shape the artistic experience.

Curatorial Work and the Common Good: Why Foundations Strengthen Museums

Helmberger illuminates the foundation as a driver of cultural education: transparent governance, generational asset security, professional museum work. The focus is on the collaboration between the foundation, city museum, city archive, and civic engagement, as well as examples of how special exhibitions bring historical narratives to life for today's visitors.

Place Narrative Traunstein: Seeing History, Understanding the Present

The local iconography becomes a mirror of larger developments: the city fire of 1851, economic transformation, religious image culture, everyday items as testimonies of social practices. This creates an examination of works that connects era, art direction, and materiality, sharpening the view of relationships.

Conclusion: A concentrated evening for all who want to experience history as a cultural practice. Expected are informed insights, vivid examples, and a look behind the scenes of collection, curation, and museum operations. Those who want to deepen the aesthetic experience at Heimathaus should take the chance for a conversation on-site and register early.

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• City Museum Heimathaus Traunstein - Heimathaus Foundation
• Museums in Bavaria - City Museum Heimathaus
• Historical Association Traunstein - Programs and Projects
• Historical Association - Association History and Chairpersons
• Great District City of Traunstein - Heimathaus
• Event Entry 75 Years of Heimathaus Foundation