More Visitors and Exhibits at the Berlin Sports Museum - AIMS Marathon Museum of Running - Gerd Steins reports
The Berlin Sports Museum is growing and planning new exhibitions
On the occasion of the World Championships in Athletics berlin 2009, the Berlin Sports Museum presented several valuable memorabilia artefacts in the Champions Club, including the original race number “51”, with which Waldemar Cierpinksi won the Olympic Marathon race in 1976 in Montreal ©Sportmuseum Berlin – AIMS Marathon-Museum of Running
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Throughout the year 2009, the Berlin Sports Museum - AIMS Marathon Museum of Running received a constant flow of objects from numerous donators around the world to add to the museum’s collection (e.g. from Dr. Dave Martin/USA and Wim Verhoorn/Netherlands, who gave a substantial amount of valuable items from their personal collections to the museum).
Through the IAAF World Championships in Berlin in 2009, numerous teams and companies donated materials and equipment to the museum.
The Sports Museum in Berlin realized an increase of 9,537 visitors in 2009 over 2008, for a total of 22,657 visitors (an increase of 237%), while the exhibitions hosted outside of Berlin (travelling exhibitions on Turnen (exercise and gymnastics) and on Jewish sports) welcomed more than 10,000 visitors.
The Berlin Sports Museum - AIMS Marathon Museum of Running, together with the “Grünau Watersport Museum”, is no longer part of the “Stiftung Stadtmuseum” (City Museum Foundation) as of January 1, 2010. It is now under the auspices of the Berlin Senate for Sport, a decision, which was unanimously passed by the Senate Sport and Cultural committee (as per the Abgeordnetenhaus-Drucksache 16/2875) and is now recommended to the Berlin Senate for final parliamentary approval.
The financing of the planned permanent exhibition space at the Glockenturm bell tower at the Berlin Olympic Stadium is to be planned into the 2-year 2012/13 budget, after surprisingly being removed from the 2010/11 budget. Until the permanent exhibition is opened, the Sports Museum is to remain in the Haus des Deutschen Sports (House of German Sports at the Olympic Stadium) according to Sport Secretary Thomas Härtel at the Sports Committee on January 29, 2010, and the Watersport Museum is to remain in the regatta grandstands in Grünau.
The annual budget for 2010 for the Berlin Sports Museum, including staff funding, is 313,000 Euro, and the staff will increase from 2.8 fulltime positions to 4.5 fulltime positions. The additional 1.7 fulltime positions are to be filled by the middle of 2010 at the latest.
On August 19-20, 2010, the exhibition “2,500 Years of the Marathon” (financed by AIMS) will be opened in additional exhibition spaces in the Haus des Deutschen Sports in the Berlin Olympic Park Berlin. A brochure about the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running and its collections will accompany the exhibition, (colour, German/English, 64 pages, DIN A 4).
On May 7, 2010, the Berlin Sports Museum will open its travelling exhibition “2,500 years of the Marathon” in Mainz at the Gutenberg Mainz Marathon and the German Marathon Championships in a celebration organised by the German Athletics Association and financed by the Rhineland-Pfalz Sports Association, which is also celebrating its 60th anniversary.
This exhibitions will then travel to seven other marathon events in Germany and Switzerland.
Internet: www.Sportmuseum-Berlin.de and www.wassersportmuseum-gruenau.de
E-Mail: Sportmuseum.Berlin@t-online.de
Gerd Steins
Source: Sport in Berlin
