FUNDING No more reading tables, visitors will be active / country subsidizes new concept
The concept of the Roman Hall, opened 25 years ago to the current needs of the museum visitor will be adjusted. In four stages, changes made in the permanent exhibition, there will be interactive stations where visitors themselves actively and playfully called knowledge is presented. For example, to building materials, heating equipment, the lives of the rich and the poor Romans, the military and of course, the mosaic floors. The Museum Association of Rhineland-Palatinate 2007 was the city, and Dr. Angela Nestler-Zapp, Director of Museums in the manor Bangert, approached the question of a development concept for the transformation.
The Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture, Mainz, has promised the city's financial support for a revision and expansion of the permanent exhibition in the Roman Hall. The Roman Hall is one of four museums in Rhineland-Palatinate, undergoing multi-year project funding from state funds. "This support also makes clear the importance, which the Romans have Hall and the Roman Villa of the Roman past of our state," emphasized Cultural Affairs Helga Baumann and Nestler-Zapp.
A total of 189 000 euro will put into the redesign, 50 000 of them with the city. Due to the promotion of "cultural heritage of the region," the implementation of the project is based on four years. It takes place in annual projects, the first step "building history of the Roman Villa of Bad Kreuznach" begins in 2009.
Heidi Schumacher, Head of the Culture Ministry, stressed that the Tourism Strategy 2015, the country's culture which is considered as the basis of the four priorities hiking, cycling, wine and wellness. Under the umbrella of "Romans, knights, and romantic," said Schumacher, funded projects, of which one is a Revitalization of an entire region promise. In particular, "bad weather" offerings were sown in the country for the tourists not as abundant. The cultural significance of the Roman Villa, on the basis of the residential type, the size of the plant, the building concept and the splendor of the interior construction of an outstanding example of Roman architecture villas north of the Alps, was evaluated in the application as a unique selling point. The collection of soldiers grave stones of the cemetery at Bingerbrück from the 1st Century AD and the late ancient fort at Kreuznach will be important topics of the redesign. Target is the contemporary treatment and presentation of exhibits, the cultural experience and the intergenerational learning for the visitors in the foreground. Archaeological findings are to be made usable as a former Roman territory readable and thus as an identification feature of the region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
A team, the project, its scientific management in the hands of Dr. Angela Nestler-Zapp implement, is: Sibylle von Roesgen MA, (v.roesgens cultural management, Heidenheim, Germany), Alfred Engler (arts + media, Mainz), Dr. Karin Drda-Kuehn (k media, Bad Mergentheim), and Dr. Sabine Hornung MA, Mainz. Support has also promised provincial archaeologist Dr. Gerd Rupprecht. "Through the promotion of a contemporary Roman Hall Standard of Presentation prepared. It contains unique treasures, but they alone are not sufficient to attract visitors, it must also meet the show standard to today's requirements, "said Cultural Affairs Baumann. Currently, in the Roman Hall counted annually 13000-14000 visitors. Nester-Zapp stressed that the number to be increased, "the device would have earned more than twice as many visitors."
source: general-zeitung.de
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