Preserving history – safeguarding culture It is a special moment when you enter the museum from Prielmayerstraße, across the newly redesigned forecourt and through the large entrance door. A photo wall with images from Erding’s past and present accompanies visitors into the brightly designed foyer of the museum’s modern new building. Here the old building is linked with the new, the past with the present. The history of the museum begins in 1856. Master shoemaker Anton Bachmair laid the foundation for the important collection of cultural objects from Erding and the region. The museum houses over 50,000 objects — from photographs and postcards to books, valuable paintings, religious figures and old furnishings. Only a small portion of these can be shown to the public in the exhibition. With the new building, the permanent exhibitions about the bellfounders and the Loderer — two of Erding’s most important crafts — were opened first in June 2010. The Archaeology and City Development exhibitions are housed on the ground floor of the old building. On the first floor are the departments Art & Artists and Everyday History.