Δ CITY TOURS FOR REFUGEES

Specifically designed for refugees, these city tours help people who have fled their homes to become familiar with life in Frankfurt.

As urban walks, the tours offer practical advice, information and an initial orientation directly at the stops on the route. In this way, the Römerberg can tell of the history of Frankfurt as a centre of international trade, the Paulskirche introduce the development of democracy in Germany, and the Cathedral offers an insight into the city’s religious traditions. In contrast, the Weltkulturen Museum presents the world of non-European cultures and ideas. The range of food and culinary dishes on offer at the “Kleinmarkthalle” market hall reflects Frankfurt’s international character. The municipal library, museums and free WiFi are all a support for facilitating new contacts, finding information, reading newspapers and books, and borrowing language course materials.

Since the tours are given in simple German with a written translation of key words in Arabic, Pashto and Tigrinya, the entire walk fosters the language skills of Frankfurt’s new residents.

These city tours are offered free of charge by volunteer city district historians from the Stiftung Polytechnischen Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main and tour guides from the Frankfurt Tour Guide Association (Frankfurter Stadt- und Gästeführer e.V.).

City Tours for Refugees is a project organised by the Friends of the Weltkulturen Museum, the Frankfurt Tour Guide Association (Frankfurter Stadt- und Gästeführer e.V.) and Frankfurt hilft - Engagement für Flüchtlinge. With the generous support of the Stiftung Polytechnischen Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main.
 

Registration necessary: Dieter Wesp 0170 3333716 or Hans Zimmermann 0171 5492010

Every second Friday

The groups on these tours have free admission to the Welkulturen Museum and the historisches museum.

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Δ EXHIBITION OPENING

Welcome
Dr. Ina Hartwig (Deputy major in charge of culture of the city Frankfurt am Main)
Dr. Eva Ch. Raabe (Acting director and curator Oceania at the Weltkulturen Museum)

Introduction
Vanessa von Gliszczynski (Curatorial director of the exhibition and curator South East Asia at the Weltkulturen Museum)

The participating artists, composers and curators will be present.

With Indonesian dance and finger food.

 

“THE COMMON THREAD - The warp and weft of thinking”

Why are the principles for the first computer based on a loom? Why do so many maths teachers in Peru come from the families of weavers? And why do people on Sumba say that children are spun in their mother’s womb?

Threads, materials and patterns are taken for granted as a natural part of our daily life. Around the world, textile ideas and terms shape our language, narratives, stories and myths. The making of textiles stimulates our spatial and mathematical thinking. Taking the museum’s textile collections from the Americas, South East Asia, Oceania and Africa as a basis, THE COMMON THREAD reflects on and presents the culturally diverse techniques of textile production. Many tools, fibres, materials and other artefacts are shown to the public for the first time, including such pieces as an ikat scarf from a material interwoven with silver threads, a pre-Columbian coca bag from the Andes, a Maori cloak – a status symbol – as well as finely embroidered plush-textured raffia cloths from Central Africa.

In this exhibition, artists and composers also explore textiles, their symbolic value and significance, and their associations today. Young composers transform Indonesian textiles from the museum’s collection into modern tapestries of sound. In their installations two artists visualise connections between textiles and the digital world. Inspired by plaited baskets from the Americas collection,  North American artists create their own works to explore the lyrical connection between text and textile as well as their indigenous identity. Teenagers from Frankfurt produce their own film investigating alternative ways of textile production.

 

Curatorial director: Vanessa von Gliszczynski (curator South East Asia, Weltkulturen Museum)

Co-curator: Max Carocci (anthropologist and curator of arts, London, United Kingdom), Mona Suhrbier (curator Americas, Weltkulturen Museum) and Eva Ch. Raabe (acting director/curator Oceania, Weltkulturen Museum)

Participating artists and musicians: Maren Gebhardt (editor and artist, Tübingen, Germany), Shan Goshorn (artist, Cherokee, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA), Tobias Hagedorn (composer of electronic and contemporary music, Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Raphaël Languillat (musicologist and composer, Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Sarah Sense (artist, Chitimacha/Choctaw, Sacramento, California and Bristol, United Kingdom), Ruth Stützle Kaiser (cultural scientist and artist, Tübingen, Germany)

The richly illustrated accompanying catalogue contains essays by Max Carocci, Maren Gebhardt, Vanessa von Gliszczynski, Shan Goshorn, Tobias Hagedorn, William Ingram, Willemijn de Jong, Raphaël Languillat, Gerhard Müller-Hornbach, Eva Ch. Raabe, Dagmar Schweitzer de Palacios, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Sarah Sense, Jens Soentgen, Ruth Stützle Kaiser, Mona Suhrbier, Rangituatahi Te Kanawa and Tim Zahn, expanding the focus of the exhibition with new, interdisciplinary perspectives. The catalogue is published in English and German by the Kerber Verlag.

 

With kind support:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The project “Musical textures” is a cooperation between the Weltkulturen Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Music IzM at the University of Music and Performing Art Frankfurt (HfMDK).

 

With kind support of the exhibition opening:

Running time
17th November 2016 - 27th August 2017

€7 / reduced €3.50
Exhibition opening free
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm and Wed, 11am-8pm
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ ARTIST’S CONVERSATION

“Text & textile”

With Shan Goshorn (artist, Cherokee, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA), Sarah Sense (artist, Chitimacha/Choctaw, Sacramento, California and Bristol, United Kingdom) and Max Carocci (co-curator of the exhibition, anthropologist and curator of arts, London, United Kingdom)

The artists Shan Goshorn and Sarah Sense weave baskets and wall panels from historical photographs and texts.

By adapting and reinterpreting patterns and symbols from their own indigenous groups, they reflect together with curator Max Carocci on the history of Native Americans and their situation today.

Learn more about the exhibition “THE COMMON THREAD - The warp and weft of thinking”

In English
€7 / reduced €3.50
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ CITY TOURS FOR REFUGEES

Specifically designed for refugees, these city tours help people who have fled their homes to become familiar with life in Frankfurt.

As urban walks, the tours offer practical advice, information and an initial orientation directly at the stops on the route. In this way, the Römerberg can tell of the history of Frankfurt as a centre of international trade, the Paulskirche introduce the development of democracy in Germany, and the Cathedral offers an insight into the city’s religious traditions. In contrast, the Weltkulturen Museum presents the world of non-European cultures and ideas. The range of food and culinary dishes on offer at the “Kleinmarkthalle” market hall reflects Frankfurt’s international character. The municipal library, museums and free WiFi are all a support for facilitating new contacts, finding information, reading newspapers and books, and borrowing language course materials.

Since the tours are given in simple German with a written translation of key words in Arabic, Pashto and Tigrinya, the entire walk fosters the language skills of Frankfurt’s new residents.

These city tours are offered free of charge by volunteer city district historians from the Stiftung Polytechnischen Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main and tour guides from the Frankfurt Tour Guide Association (Frankfurter Stadt- und Gästeführer e.V.).

City Tours for Refugees is a project organised by the Friends of the Weltkulturen Museum, the Frankfurt Tour Guide Association (Frankfurter Stadt- und Gästeführer e.V.) and Frankfurt hilft - Engagement für Flüchtlinge. With the generous support of the Stiftung Polytechnischen Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main.
 

Registration necessary: Dieter Wesp 0170 3333716 or Hans Zimmermann 0171 5492010

Every second Friday

The groups on these tours have free admission to the Welkulturen Museum and the historisches museum.

schließen

Δ CURATOR’S GUIDED TOUR "The Common Thread - The warp and weft of thinking"

With Eva Raabe (curator oceania and acting director, Weltkulturen Museum)

Why are the principles for the first computer based on a loom? Why do so many maths teachers in Peru come from the families of weavers? What meanings lie behind the language of textile idioms? On this tour, Eva Raabe provides the answers to these questions, and explains the idea behind the exhibition and its development.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ THE BOOKISH OWL

“Museum spaces – back to the future”

Buildings have many different functions. Some are places to live, others places to work and others again are public space – housing, for instance, a museum.

But what happens when someone’s home is turned into a museum? What does a building used as a museum actually need?

We take a trip back in time to explore the history of the villas on Schaumainkai and design the museum of the future.

For families with kids from 6 years old.
In German
€2. Registration required:
Weltkulturen Education, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ THEME RELATED GUIDED TOUR “The material of myths: Sacred robes and textile cosmogonies”

With Matthias Claudius Hofmann (research assistant, Weltkulturen Museum)

In all societies, threads, cords and textiles are crucially important culturally. This is particularly evident in myths and legends where textiles or the tools to produce them explain the origins of the world or, for instance, the nature of society. This tour looks specifically at the connection between textiles and their myths.

€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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