19.02.2019: "On number safe! Protection of contents in the archive" - Teaching exhibition in the Bavarian Main State Archive
Archives are the memory of a society. They shall ensure that the archives kept by them are preserved, secured and kept permanently. Only, what means in the long term, secure and receive? What are the dangers and can archives be set and how can they be met? The small exhibition with about 35 exhibits shows, on the basis of selected examples, the dangers to which archival material can be exposed: from total loss through war, fire or theft, to partial damage caused by nager or insects, to targeted, unauthorized manipulation of content. In the second part, protection measures are introduced that apply archives and archivists yesterday and today for the preservation of the original and its contents: correct storage, pest management, certification and stapling, theft protections, standards and rules, copies and filming. The exhibition was opened in the course of training in the preparation service 2017/2020 for the entry into the 3rd Education and Science, specialized in archives, at the University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria. The exhibition can be seen from 19 February to 2 April 2019 in the main building of the Bavarian Main State Archive (Treppenhaus, 1st OG), Schönfeldstraße 5, 80539 Munich. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30 – 18.00 hrs., Friday 8.30 – 13.30 hrs. (Faschingsdienstag, 5 March only until 12.00 hrs.) Free admission. Guided tours for groups can be agreed under (089) 28638-2575.
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15.01.2019: Introduction of Archive Director Dr. Christian Kruse as new head of the Bamberg State Archive
Tuesday, 15th In January 2019, Dr. Christian Kruse, Director General Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon, was officially introduced as Head of the State Archives. Ms. President of the Government Heidrun Piwernetz has spoken a greeting. Dr. Christian Kruse was effective from 1. December 2018 appointed Head of the Bamberg State Archives. He followed archive director a.D. Dr. Stefan Nöth, who has been the state archive since 1st. August 2006 and retired as of 31 August 2018. Christian Kruse, born in Kiel, studied history and German at the universities of Erlangen and Vienna. He received his doctorate in Erlangen with a work on “Franz Friedrich Anton von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld 1750–1806”. After training as a scientific archivist at the Bayerische Archivschule, he worked from 1991 to 2002 in the Bayerischer Hauptstaatsarchiv and from 2002 to 2007 in the Staatsarchiv Augsburg and Nuremberg. From 2007 to 2008, he worked as a permanent representative of the Head of State Archives in Munich, from 2008 to 2018 he was responsible for archive building, stock conservation, publications and public relations in the Bavarian State Archives Directorate-General. Dr. Kruse represented the state archives of Bavaria in federal-counter-gremien. The state archive Bamberg can inaugurate a modern magazine building in the next few months. Networking in the region with archives, authorities, courts, educational institutions and schools is a central task that will be intensified.
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