page_title: Stadtmuseum Gütersloh
section_title: Local History of Gütersloh
hierarchical_section_title: Stadtmuseum Gütersloh / Local History of Gütersloh
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Stadtgeschichte Gütersloh: Vitrine zur Royal Air Force im Stadtmuseum Gütersloh
context_page_description: The Stadtmuseum Gütersloh is a museum in Gütersloh, Germany, dealing with the city's history. Under the auspices of Gütersloh's association for local history it accommodates – beside exhibits to Gütersloh's local history – two exhibitions referring to the history of medicine and the industrial history. Every year about five to seven special exhibitions about local topics respectively travelling exhibitions take place in addition to these three permanent exhibitions. The medical-historic collection – the flagship of the museum – was granted a special prize of the European Museum of the Year Award in 1990. A desk of the Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch and an iron lung are some of the most important exhibits.
context_section_description: The exhibition about Gütersloh's local history features artefacts from the bronze-age to modern testimonials of the digital revolution. Beside original prehistoric finds a replication of the approximately 3.500 years old, 40 cm high "Pavenstädter Riesenbecher" ("Giant Beaker of Pavenstädt" – Pavenstädt is an urban district of Gütersloh) is exhibited, one of the oldest testimonials of human settlements in Gütersloh's urban area. The former purpose of the half-timbered house is illustrated in a teacher's residence of about 1840 (Vormärz era). The exhibition about the local history mainly deals with the everyday life of families living in Gütersloh in 1868. The furnishing and basic commodities of one Protestant and one Catholic family are shown. Historical meteorological data commemorate Gütersloh's first weather station installed by the town's honorary citizen Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Stohlmann.
  The entire workshop of Gütersloh's coppersmith Thiro of the year 1900 is exhibited in the former horse stable of the half-timbered house. Three generations of the Thiro family worked with the exhibited equipment till 1977, producing – among others – pots, pans and distillation apparatus for the local distilleries.
  A part of the exhibition deals with the topic "Gütersloh – Town of Patrons and Donors". Personalities, who campaigned for the town's public welfare by donation activities, are introduced – not only because of the fact that the museum's existence is due to a donation. A prominent example is Reinhard Mohn who set up the oldest community foundation of Germany in 1996. Therefore, a bronze sculpture of Reinhard Mohn – created in 1986 by the sculptor Hubert Hartmann (1915–2006) coming from Wiedenbrück – is exhibited in this area.
caption: An important chapter in the local history of Gütersloh: RAF Gütersloh
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