Reorganisation of Kassel's museum landscape, Kassel (D)
Kategorie: Strategic Museum Concept
Auftrag: Analysis of the present situation, strategic plan, Reorgansation of the collections, spatial and functional concept, cost estimate
Auftraggeber: Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts, Wiesbaden, Germany
Team: Dieter Bogner
Zeitraum: 2004-2006
In 2004, bogner.cc Vienna joined Frankfurt-based architects and planners AS&P – Albert Speer & Partner (project architect: Jens Jakob Happ) to develop a strategic plan for the reorganisation of Kassel’s museum landscape. The focus of the ten-year project, with a total budget of 300 million euros, is on Kassel’s state museums and the landscape gardens, several hundred hectares in size and featuring numerous attractions, that are maintained by the Castles and Gardens Section. The concept includes the Hercules monument atop the Habichtswald, the Mountain Park with its trick fountains and romantic Lowenburg Castle, the picture gallery and antiques collection in Wilhelmshoehe Palace, treasure art, ethnology and prehistory/ancient history in the Landesmuseum, the Museum of Astronomy and History of Technology in the Orangery, and Wilhelmsthal Palace in Calden, but also the documenta complex around the Fridericianum, and the Neue Galerie an der Schoenen Aussicht. The complexity of the task required a holistic view of the diversity of state, municipal and private cultural facilities and their different problems as well as consideration of the complex links between social, economic, legal, organisational and technical aspects.
Auftrag: Analysis of the present situation, strategic plan, Reorgansation of the collections, spatial and functional concept, cost estimate
Auftraggeber: Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts, Wiesbaden, Germany
Team: Dieter Bogner
Zeitraum: 2004-2006
In 2004, bogner.cc Vienna joined Frankfurt-based architects and planners AS&P – Albert Speer & Partner (project architect: Jens Jakob Happ) to develop a strategic plan for the reorganisation of Kassel’s museum landscape. The focus of the ten-year project, with a total budget of 300 million euros, is on Kassel’s state museums and the landscape gardens, several hundred hectares in size and featuring numerous attractions, that are maintained by the Castles and Gardens Section. The concept includes the Hercules monument atop the Habichtswald, the Mountain Park with its trick fountains and romantic Lowenburg Castle, the picture gallery and antiques collection in Wilhelmshoehe Palace, treasure art, ethnology and prehistory/ancient history in the Landesmuseum, the Museum of Astronomy and History of Technology in the Orangery, and Wilhelmsthal Palace in Calden, but also the documenta complex around the Fridericianum, and the Neue Galerie an der Schoenen Aussicht. The complexity of the task required a holistic view of the diversity of state, municipal and private cultural facilities and their different problems as well as consideration of the complex links between social, economic, legal, organisational and technical aspects.