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Three Different Ways to Exhibit Archaeology:
Herne, Xanten and Chemnitz
felix Becker, Atelier Brückner
Ladies and Gentleman.
First of all, thank you very much for your invitation. I would like to
start with a little overview of our office.
Our office is located in Stuttgart, South-Germany. Our operation
is run on a single level of this old factory, with about 1,800 square
meters space. The office is very open and transparent, sothat the colleagues
always have the opportunity to have a look at other ongoing
projects.
Atelier Brückner was founded approximately 13 years ago by Professor
Uwe R. Brückner and our CEO Shirin Frangoul-Brückner;
at the moment we are 70 employees. We have many specialists on
our teams, certainly architects and interior designers, but also historians
and a director from the theatre. The team is international and
in the past few years our projects have branched out as a result of
their input.
LWL-Museum for Archaeology, Herne, Germany
In the centre of the German city Herne, across from the neo-Gothic
“Holy Cross church” a new museum building was built between
1999 and 2002 (Architecture: von Busse, Klapp, Brüning Architekten,
Essen). Brick, glass and steel determine the frontage of
the sophisticated building. Brick is dominant as it reflects most obviously
the language of the architecture in the region. At the same
time it is intended to point to the fact that a construction material
is being used here which has been valued for thousand of years as a
durable building material.
However, the exterior of this building tells little about the true dimensions
of the museum. Only under ground does it reveal its full size.
Here, the rooms cover more than 6,800 square meters of which 4,300
square meters are available for exhibitions. Alongside the permanent
exhibition on 2,900 square meters in the southern area there are two
halls of 800 and 100 square meters for special exhibitions and an-
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