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eLBe – The Current of Society
This joint project by the Saxon State Theatres and the dance theatre group “bodytalk” from Cologne focused on the cultural region around the Elbe River in Saxony. The team embarked on a several-week “dance journey” to jointly explore the rural Elbe...
European Civil Society in the 21st Century
In the complex world of the 21st century, we are witnessing the birth of new civic movements and the first contours of a global civil society. Following the systemic upheaval of 1989 and in light of the recent events of the Arab Spring, it appears...
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...
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...
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...
Familiarly Foreign - An Ethnological Cross Section
The Landesmuseum für Natur und Mensch Oldenburg originated from a ducal wunderkammer dating back to 1836. Today, the collection comprises three large departments containing a broad spectrum of ethnological, archaeological, botanical and zoological...
Coincidences of Evolution in the Eocene Geiseltal
The Zentralmagazin Naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen (ZNS) is a central institute of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. As a national competence centre for biodiversity, the institute aims to create an innovative link between its...
One God – Descendants of Abraham on the Nile
The three great world religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, coexisted in Egypt for the longest period of time – from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. In cooperation with three collections of the Berlin State Museums, the fellow Dr. Mary...