For a long time, a painting in the permanent exhibition of the Wels City Museum was a mystery: The work by local artist Josef Sterrer shows a panorama of Wels from 1851. “For a long time, we understood panorama in the modern sense of the word – as a view from a point of view,” says museum director Ingeborg Micko. However, some details did not fit – such as the route of the horse-drawn railway, which was actually straight as an arrow, but curves in the picture.
In 2005, Micko solved the mystery: Scherrer climbed the church tower of the Protestant parish church and from there created a 360-degree view of Wels and the surrounding area. “The fact that such a picture of Wels exists is in itself a special thing – it was produced on a large scale for metropolises like Paris or London, rarely for such small cities,” explains Micko.
Digital accents in the museum
She has long been thinking about how visitors to the castle museum could also be given this panoramic view. Now a separate, circular exhibition room has been created for this purpose. Scherrer’s panoramic painting adorns the walls. Markings show special points in the city – if these are scanned with a mobile phone, pictures or videos are shown that show the development up to the present day. “We not only enable visitors to immerse themselves in the past. We also establish a connection to the present. We want to make this possible more in the museum in the future,” says Micko.
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Photo: Rene Hauser
Source: Nachrichten
