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Freiburg Collects Memories for Tomorrow
This project by the Freiburg Museum für Stadtgeschichte highlights one of the central responsibilities of city museums – collecting. “Freiburg Collects” examines conventional collection practices and searches for new ways to present and preserve...
Inclusive City Museum: Participate – Don’t Discriminate!
The Stadt- und Industriemuseum in Rüsselsheim has teamed up with the Werkstätten für Behinderte Rhein-Main for a project which explores the subject of inclusion. In the project “Inclusive City Museum”, the partners wish to identify ways to reach out...
ARRIVING – building dwelling living
The project “ARRIVING – building dwelling living” by the Heimatmuseum Bernau focuses on the expanding communities located on the outskirts of Berlin. In view of immigration, new arrivals and the changes they bring, more and more people are asking...
The GDR Experience!
How do people today remember urban life in former East Germany (GDR)? This is the central question of the project “The GDR Experience!” organised by the Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz and its partners. The project calls on residents of Görlitz to...
Freedom Time Machine
The Stadtmuseum Memmingen will explore the significance of freedoms in civic life on the basis of the “Twelve Articles” of Memmingen. The bill, drafted in 1525 during the Peasant Wars, is considered one of the first European documents outlining basic...
arriving – surviving
The Hellweg-Museum Unna presents what coexistence looks like in a migration society from the point of view of native and immigrant populations. For its project “arriving – surviving”, the museum is cooperating with the Caritas Association in order to...
City Expedition
Plans are underway to construct a city museum in Kempten in the Allgäu region in the coming two years. The museums of the city of Kempten have now launched a project titled “City Expedition” to explore ways to get the public involved in the...
TURN – Fund for artistic cooperation between Germany and African countries
In 2012, the Federal Cultural Foundation established the TURN – Fund for Artistic Cooperation between Germany and African Countries in order to encourage a wide range of German institutions to shift their focus on the artistic production and cultural...
Digital Imaginaries – Africas in Production
Collective images can shape public perception of what Africa was, is and could become in the future. According to the postcolonial visionary Édouard Glissant (1928-2011), these different “Africas” can be described as a technological web of...
Congo Stars
Like in many African countries, the contemporary art scene in the Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a dilemma with regard to how it is represented abroad. For decades, the global art market has defined Congolese art as “peinture populaire”....