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HACK and the CITY
The Wilhelm-Hack-Museum is a cultural institution located in Ludwigshafen, a city shaped by industry and a large immigrant population. Consequently, its artistic research activities focus on themes which reflect on societal and social issues of...
In Order to Join
The Museum Abteiberg is an old municipal museum with a contemporary collection which focuses on the recent generation of international artists. The works by Rummana Hussain (1952 – 1999) serve as the starting point. The Indian artist produced her...
The Research Museum in a Public Context
Prehistoric birds, dinosaur skeletons and fossils of every kind – the collections at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (MfN) contain more than 30 million original botanical, zoological, paleontological, geological and mineralogical specimens. With...
Slavs in Europe
In recent years, numerous exhibitions have acquainted the public with the Celts, Vikings and Lombards as Europe’s early predominant ethnic groups. But not so of the Slavs, the cultural-historic forefathers of Brandenburg. The archaeological study of...
The New Pomeranians
The Pommersches Landesmuseum was established in the university town of Greifswald shortly following German reunification. It strives to promote understanding and reconciliation between Germany and its neighbouring country of Poland. This project aims...
Ideology on Display
With its extensive collection and large-scale exhibitions, the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin is one of Germany’s most renowned museums today. Part of its collection originally belonged to the Museum of German History (MfDG) which existed...
Anthropocene
The Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Paul Crutzen, coined the term "Anthropocene" to designate the period in which he claims human beings have played a role shaping the earth both biologically and geologically. Whether it be CO² emissions,...
AIDS as a Global Media Event
AIDS has radically transformed the world and become the focus of interdisciplinary study and research from a medical, cultural and media-historical perspective. Over the past 30 years, the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden has collected numerous items...
Amazonian Spiders and Butterflies
The Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe (SMNK) is one of the ten largest natural history research collections and exhibiting museums in Germany and owns a collection of approximately 2.4 million butterflies. The SMNK would like to intensify...
The Co-op Principle
The Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, was Germany’s most famous art and design school of classical modernism. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation has launched a fellowship programme which aims to investigate the principle of cooperative design,...
