
27.6.2024: Emergency association Bayern founded
Climate change promotes natural disasters and extreme weather conditions, the consequences of which increasingly affect cultural institutions. Flood 2024 again proves that such damage events are usually no longer possible at local level alone. A cross-border networked infrastructure for the protection of cultural property with appropriate personnel and technical equipment is becoming increasingly important. In order to be better prepared for major damage events in Bavaria, leading cultural institutions join the Bavarian emergency association. First sign of the agreement the Directorate-General of the State Archives of Bavaria the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek the state office for non-governmental museums in Bavaria the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen the Bavarian National Museum Archive and Library of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising the archive of the archbishop Bamberg the Archaeological State Collection the Federal Archive for its facility Load balancing archive Bayreuth The Bavaria emergency association supplements the existing regional emergency alliances with a supra-regional level. So far, there are already active emergency alliances in Bavaria at the locations of all state archives, i.e. in Amberg-Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Augsburg, Bamberg, Coburg, Landshut, Munich, Nuremberg and Würzburg. Other local allies are found. Minister of State Markus Blume emphasised on the signing of the agreement: “Prevention, protection and networking are best achieved t
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Top pieces of the Bavarian State Archives on bavarikon
bavaricon is the website of the Free State of Bavaria for the presentation of artistic, cultural and knowledge treasures from institutions in Bavaria. Archives, libraries and museums as well as institutions of the state administration, monument care and science are involved. bavarikon provides worldwide and free access to a wide range of cultural goods such as documents and archives, manuscripts, archaeological finds, paintings, graphics and photographs, city maps and maps, sculptures, means of payment, castles and castles, and folk culture and much more. The state archives of Bavaria are one of the cooperation partners of the portal. The Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv and the state archives present selected archives that have an outstanding significance for the historical memory of Bavaria. To the top pieces from the state archives of Bavaria
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The Constitution of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1818–1918
The exhibition opens a wide panorama of the 19th and beginning 20. century in Bavaria. Not only is the creation of the constitution, but also its further development, which led to an increasing parliamentaryization of the Bavarian monarchy. Individual aspects of constitutional reality round off the picture. One can approach the topic about the intensively explained individual exhibits or thematically about the individual sections of the exhibition. In addition to the prehistory of the Constitution with the Constitution of 1808, “State and Constitutional Code”, “King and Parliament”, “The Way to the State Court”, “Constitutional Reforms in 19th Century”, “Constitutional reforms after 1900”, “problems and break lines of the Constitutional Regulation” and “Constitutional Jubilees”. Here goes to the virtual exhibition.
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