Museum on the monastery island

The only preserved parts of the Bordesholm monastery are the monastery church and the vaulted cellar. The vaulted cellar probably housed the brewing cellar in which the monastery beer was produced in monastic times. The history of the monastery becomes comprehensible with the relocation from Neumünster to Bordesholm, the transformation into a Latin school as well as the establishment of the district administration. In the historic vaulted cellar, the history of the monastery can be experienced. The permanent exhibition consists of the following thematic blocks: the impact of St. Vicelin, the transfer of the canons' monastery from Neumünster to Bordesholm and the transformation into a Latin school. In the vaulted cellar, excavation finds, especially the unique devotional objects from the monastery period, can be viewed. Written and pictorial documents from the past and present of the Bordesholm region are exhibited in the Bordesholm local history collection. Documents from the old Bordesholm office as well as textiles and tools from agriculture, household and handicraft are also shown in the museum. Additional comprehensive information about the excavation and many other areas of the monastery's history is provided by a video installation. In the Heimatsammlung in the east wing of the monastery monastery there are annually changing exhibitions on regional history and folklore topics. The life's work of the Bordesholm sculptress Margret Erichsen-Worch can be viewed as a permanent exhibition in the Administration Academy Bordesholm in Heintzestraße. All sculptures by the sculptress Margret Erichsen-Worch exhibited there have been donated to the Heimatsammlung Bordesholm.