Get involved in developing and shaping the museum
Would you like to support the Pomeranian State Museum?
A museum needs committed people who feel connected to the museum and its programme. They help to keep it alive as an active part of Pomerania’s cultural landscape.
The Friends of the Pomeranian State Museum (Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Pommersches Landesmuseums e.V.) facilitates purchases and restorations, supports the operation of the museum, and hosts special events. You can find the dates of the Society’s events in the Calendar of Events.
Your engagement and creative ideas are needed!
Our Board of Directors
Chairman: Dr Gerd Siebeneicher
First Deputy Chairman: Knut Teuthorn
Second Deputy Chairman: Hans-Philipp von Randow
Board Members: Dr Andreas Donner, Dr Petra Kessler-Zumpe, Dr Sabine Lindqvist, Dr Cornelius Richter, Alfred Schöpf
Director of the Pomeranian State Museum: Dr Ruth Slenczka
Contact
Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Pommerschen Landesmuseums e.V.
(Friends of the Pomeranian State Museum e.V.)
Rakower Straße 9
17489 Greifswald
Ralf Pleul
Office Manager of the Society of the Friends of the Pomeranian State Museum
Phone: +49 (0) 3834 83 12 0
Office: foerdergesellschaft{at}pommersches-landesmuseum.de
Board of Directors: fg-vorstand{at}pommersches-landesmuseum.de
Become a member!
As a member you will enjoy the following benefits:
- Free year-round admission to our permanent exhibition (including, for families, all children under 18)
- Regular information on current exhibitions and events at the museum
- Invitations to exhibition openings and exclusive events (e.g. for previews or a “look behind the scenes”)
Support for the Cabinet of Graphic Art in the Galerie der Romantik
The Pomeranian State Museum has a sizable collection of prints by Caspar David Friedrich and his contemporaries, as well as a repository of letters by the artist and his siblings. These light-sensitive works on paper will be presented in the Galerie der Romantik for the first time. Individual prints will be on display for a limited time in a separate cabinet. The Friends of the Pomeranian State Museum would like to make the establishment of this graphic cabinet possible through the current donation project. And you can help!
Purchase of two paintings by Ilse von Heyden-Linden (1883–1949)
Thanks to a donation by the Friends of the Pomeranian State Museum, two paintings by the Demmin-born artist Ilse von Heyden-Linden have been acquired. These paintings enrich the holdings of the Pomeranian State Museum, which already include several works by Ilse von Heyden-Linden.
Restoration of the Neustettin Memorial Plaque of Fallen Soldiers
The exhibition “Pomerania in the 20th Century,” which opened in 2021, begins with the First World War. Exemplary for the personal fates of many Pomeranians is the Memorial Plaque of Klein Schwarzsee/Neustettin Czarne Małe/pow. drawski: This community of 375 people paid a high price: 22 of their soldiers fell during the war from 1914–1918. Prior to the opening of the exhibition, the memorial wooden plaque was restored with the support of the Friends of the Pomeranian State Museum.
Historical Frames for works by Caspar David Friedrich
In 2019, two nineteenth-century frames were conjointly donated to the Pomeranian State Museum by the Friends of the Pomeranian State Museum, the Rotary Club Greifswald – Caspar David Friedrich, and the Greif Alarm company. In these frames, Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings “Ruins of Eldena Abbey in the Giant Mountains” and “Rock Gorge in the Harz Mountains” are shown to even better advantage.
The photo shows Joachim von der Wense (President of the Rotary Club Greifswald – Caspar David Friedrich), art historian Dr Birte Frenssen (PLM), and Dr Gerd Siebeneicher (Managing Director of Greif-Alarm Sicherheitstechnik GmbH and Chairman of the Board of the Friends of the Pomeranian State Museum) in front of the newly framed paintings.
The Restoration of Caspar David Friedrich’s letters with his siblings
The Pomeranian State Museum purchased a bundle of 55 letters by Friedrich and his siblings, which will be presented in the Galerie der Romantik. In 2017, the Friends of the Pomeranian State Museum supported the essential restoration of these letters, which showed signs of water damage, creases, and deterioration due to dust.