Overview:
Around 1890, the former municipal granary served as a workers' residence for the Krafft shoe factory in Fahrnau. Since 1986, the building has served as the town museum, which houses valuable collections of aristocratic and bourgeois domestic culture. These come from the baronial von Roggenbach family (resident in Schopfheim from around 1500 - 1925) as well as from bourgeois "high society" circles in Schopfheim in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In addition to the permanent exhibition "Living in the early Middle Ages up to the 1960s with integrated town history and literature", the design collection of Schopfheim's honorary citizen Prof. Hans Theo Baumann is also on display. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and graphic and interior design at the Basel School of Applied Arts. From 1955, he worked as a freelancer for Rosenthal Porzellan Manufaktur, followed by the opening of his own studio. He mainly designed glass and ceramic objects for renowned manufacturers such as KPM, Thomas and Arzberg.
There are also special exhibitions in which treasures from the museum depot are presented on changing themes, such as "Comic Heroes".
Music in the museum
There is a loose series of concerts on the 1799 table piano in the Roggenbach Room of the municipal museum. The instrument, which was donated by Anna Kym-Krafft, an honorary citizen of Schopfheim, was built by Johann Jacob Brosy in Basel in 1799 and has a range of five octaves.
Worth knowing
- Between the museum and St. Michael's Church is a memorial commemorating the deportation of Schopfheim's Jewish inhabitants to Gurs. It has stood there, as well as in the central memorial in Neckarzimmern, since 2007.
