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German Nationality Museum szerkesztés
The task of the German Nationality Museum in Tata (hungarian: Német Nemzetiségi Múzeum) founded in 1972 is to collect, preserve and show the German culture existing in the past and in the present days in Hungary. The institution forms a part of Kuny Domokos Museum. Address: Tata, Alkotmány utca 1.
The building szerkesztés
The museum, previously operating in Tata’s Miklós mill, has been located in the former Nepomucenus mill since 1983. It used to be a water mill built in 1758 based on Jakab Fellner’s design. It was named after John of Nepomuk, St., patron saint of millers and ’men of water’, his carved, wooden statue of naive beauty adorns the facade of the building. The former mill structure, function and history is presented by an animated film in the exhibition. The main building hosts the research room, the book-, photo-, audio- and data stores, and the museum's three-floor exhibition space can be found here as well, which is about 500 square meters. The art warehouse is located in the former granary.
The exhibition szerkesztés
We and the Others - is the title of the museum's permanent exhibition opened in 2015. The exhibition is not only about the Germans in Hungary. It is more about how stereotypes and prejudices about ethnic groups are developed, and the way national majority think of national minority. In the section Történetek (Stories) the thousand-year history of the relationship can be seen concerning the country's attitude towards minority groups. The time of history is meandering through the boards figuratively and the lagging branches of the river, the dams and islands symbolize historical events. Opposite the history personal memorabilia can be found. The museum was given these objects by individuals or communities to portray the binding to the contemporary German minority. One section of the exhibition titled Tárgyak (Objects) shows what objects were considered typically German in the past. The exhibition encourages visitors to think about what we are like, and what the others are like.
Permanent exhibitions szerkesztés
- 1973 the first permanent exhibition: German settlers in Komárom County (Miklós mill)
- 1985 second permanent exhibition: Der grosse Schwabenzug (Nepomucenus mill)
- 1997 third permanent exhibition: 1100 years of coexistence: Germans in Hungary from the Conquest to the present day
- 2015 fourth permanent exhibition: We and the Others