Museum in the monastery

The museum was founded in 1952 as the district home museum in the north wing of the Cistercian convent of St Georgenberg, which was dissolved during the Reformation. In 1984, it was extended to include the Mauritius Chapel, built in the Romanesque style. Following a comprehensive redesign in the years 2021 to 2024, the former cloister and the rooms on the ground floor and first floor now house an exhibition on the town and district of Frankenberg - from the town's heyday in humanism to the district town period of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Views of the town and district
Once completed, the museum will take visitors on a journey through the centuries in the town and old district of Frankenberg under the title "Frankenberg an der Eder - views of the town and district". In the refectory, the lower exhibition room, the life and imagery of the town of Frankenberg from the 14th to the 16th century is thematised. In the dormitory, the upper exhibition room, the focus will be on life in the farming town and the rural old district of Frankenberg. The departments are linked by a "time window". For example, traditional costumes will be juxtaposed with today's fashion, the former use of water power with today's electrification of mills and the town planning of the Middle Ages with modern town planning and redevelopment.

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