Heimatstube Reichenberg, Regional heritage museum in Augsburg, Germany
The Heimatstube Reichenberg is a museum in Augsburg holding collections on the history of Liberec, formerly Reichenberg, in North Bohemia. Its exhibits include traditional costume caps, paintings, loom models and clothmakers' tools, alongside a picture archive of several thousand landscape and town photographs of North Bohemia and the Iser Mountains.
In 1955 Augsburg took on the sponsorship of Sudeten Germans expelled from the Reichenberg region, and the Heimatkreis Reichenberg was given rooms on Maximilianstrasse that same year to build a museum, which opened in 1959 and gained a local-history archive. In 1971 it moved to Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 55, and later to number 39. Contacts made by the association led to the Augsburg–Liberec town partnership in 2001.
The museum preserves the cultural memory of Sudeten Germans from the Reichenberg region, now called Liberec. Visitors see handcraft techniques and everyday items that show how people in this area lived and worked.
The visit offers access to over 1,500 volumes of local literature and thousands of photographs documenting North Bohemia and the Iser Mountains region. Visitors can take time to explore the different exhibition rooms and discover details at their own pace.
The museum houses a preserved fabric fragment from Emperor Charles IV's burial shroud in its collection of historical textiles. This rare piece connects the museum's collections to the medieval history of the region.
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