The permanent exhibition of the Museum Lüneburg deals with the regional cultural landscape and its center, the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg. It exhibits evidence of the natural and cultural history of the city and region and presents these from the particular perspectives of natural history, cultural history and archaeology. The exhibition area covers a total of around 1700m2.
Seven sections repeatedly illuminate the role of man as the designer of his environment in changing historical contexts. Even though nature and culture have a reciprocal relationship, nature forms the basis of human existence. Only if we succeed in using nature in the sense of ecological, economic and social sustainability in the future can the human habitat and its cultural assets be preserved. The museum aims to encourage visitors to think about forward-looking ways of preserving an environment worth living in, using the Lüneburg region as an example.
The focus on important exhibits from the 15th and 16th centuries, the heyday of the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg, is exceptional. However, the collections on regional geology, the evidence of the prehistoric and early historical settlement of the region and the rich finds of Lüneburg's urban archaeology are also of significance for the whole of Lower Saxony. These valuable focal points of the collection are presented in a joint exhibition tour.
The realization of the exhibition
The tour and its exhibition architecture were developed over several years together with a team of representatives of the Museum Foundation Lüneburg, scientific advisors and the curators of the Museum Lüneburg by ikon Ausstellungen, Hanover, project management Martina Jung. The exhibition architecture was complemented by a graphic concept created by designagenten, Hanover. The design guidelines are based on the central leitmotifs of a catchy color concept and the lack of barriers to information and define the entire typography for the labeling of walls, objects and laboratories. Signal colors such as red, orange and magenta draw attention to exhibition sequences where the museum's core messages are condensed.
The tour leads through the different periods of Lüneburg, starting with the formation of Lüneburg's underground and the first people in the area through to the heyday of the patricians and finally ending in today's Lüneburg.
