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Rafting museum with a new face

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On Friday, June 1st, the new special exhibition "Wolfach in Transition" will not only open in Wolfach's Museum. The Kultur im Schloss association has also completely redesigned and rebuilt the museum's rafting department.

 

The redesign of the exhibition, which had existed for almost 20 years, was necessary to adapt the concept to today's requirements. “In the internet age we just have completely different habits,” says the chairman of the association, Christian Oberfell. Complex topics such as the history of rafting must be presented in a very compact way today. It took a long time to think about how to approach the topic. After all, there was great respect for the existing, very well-founded exhibition. But you want to get a museum "from a single source", so the chairman. The new conception became all the more urgent because the museum is part of the new rafting route, which will open in mid-June.

 

In the future, visitors will therefore be able to visit a rafters' room, where the rafters meet after a hard day's work to drink a glass or two of must. An activity that participants in one of the planned adventure tours on the subject of rafting can then immediately understand. A large table is available for groups in the museum, which offers space for activities of all kinds. In order to be more flexible, the exhibition organizers removed a large raft from the museum with the help of the Wolfacher Kinzig raftsmen. It will now be set up in the castle courtyard. The texts were reduced to a minimum in order to put the valuable original exhibits at the center of the exhibition. In addition to pictures by Hasemann, Eyth, Sax and Trautwein, this includes a unique raft model that was built by a real raftsman at the end of the 19th century. The prosperity that some Wolfach bourgeois families achieved through the timber trade is reflected in exquisite Delft porcelain and objects made of ivory. But the last piece of gold that was left to the Wolfach skippers after the rafting industry ended can also be seen in the museum. These exhibits are combined with the tools of the forest farmers and the raftmen who worked for Wolfach's timber merchants.

 

The Kultur im Schloss association is particularly proud that the comprehensive redesign of the exhibition could be implemented entirely from its own resources and without public subsidies. A living museum is possible even in times of empty coffers.

 

After the vernissage on June 1st, the redesigned Flößerstube can always be seen on Saturday and Sunday from 14 p.m. to 17 p.m. Admission, which is also valid for the exhibition “Wolfach im Wandel”, costs 2 euros.