The Museum for Sepulchral Culture has a Circle of Friends
Founded in 2020
The newly founded network of museum friends faces a wide range of opportunities and tasks. A central challenge is to support the preparations for the sweeping redesign of the museum, which have been underway since 2017. Particularly in this phase, the museum team has already experienced how helpful it is to have support in times of change, to be able to offer advice and assistance in such a project. The network of friends will intensify this commitment to a unique museum from now on.
For all those who would like to support the future of the museum in this way, special insights will be offered, for example with special guided tours and events. For their part, the Friends of the Museum agree to donate 150 euros annually. These donations are always allocated to specific purposes, such as the promotion of new positions in art, design and handicrafts in the context of the sepulchral culture or the acquisition of works for our museum collection. Cultural education projects in the context of the important educational work with children and young people can also be supported.
In this way, the Friends of the Museum make a very direct and visible contribution to the development of the museum, without, however, influencing the museum's orientation in terms of content and personnel.
Projects that can be realised with donations from the Circle of Friends are presented on the museum's website and annually in the Yearbook for Sepulchral Culture.
We would be very pleased if you would also support us. If you would like to become part of the circle of friends, please send us a message to: freunde@sepulkralmuseum.de
In November 2025, the Friends of the Museum launched a campaign to support the museum. All further information can be found on the dedicated website: todgehörtdazu.de
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© Lorenz Widmaier
The First Meeting of the Friends
14. September 2020
On September 14, 25 of the 52 Friends of the Museum met for the first exchange at the Museum for Sepulchral Culture.
The former mayor of the city of Kassel, Bertram Hilgen, the director of the museum, Dr. Dirk Pörschmann, as well as the trainee Tatjana Ahle presented the current projects, exhibitions and the upcoming new concept to the new friends. In the future, such meetings will take place once or twice a year to exchange information and report on the museum's activities.
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Our Friends
Spokesperson
Bertram Hilgen
Lord Mayor of the City of Kassel a. D. (2005 to 2017)
Nomination in alphabetical order and with express permission of the nomination:
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Brigitte Bergholter
MD Dr. Erhard und Brigitte Biermer
Hans Eichel und Gabriele Wolff-Eichel
Ilona Friedrich
Gemeinnützige Wohnungsgesellschaft (GWG) der Stadt Kassel mbH
Position: Housing and renting
Dr. Monika Junker-John
Friederike Jünemann
Prof. Dr. med. Reinhard Lindner
Position: Head of the National Suicide Prevention Programme for Germany (NaSPro)
Prof. Ingrid Lübke-Besch
Christof Nolda
Position: Architect, former Manager of Heas of Urban Developement, Building and Evironment (Kassel)
Tatjana Rech
Michael Roth MdB
Position: SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) Heringen, Member of Parliament
Dr. Michael von Rüden
Dietmar und Gisela Schaub
Benjamin Schäfer
Volker und Helge Schäfer
Stiftung Hübner und Kennedy gGmbH
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal e.V.
Zentralinstitut für Sepulkralkultur
Museum für Sepulkralkultur
Weinbergstraße 25–27
D-34117 Kassel | Germany
Tel. +49 (0)561 918 93-0
info@sepulkralmuseum.de
