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

With Vanessa von Gliszczynski (curator South East Asia, Weltkulturen Museum)

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, curator Vanessa von Gliszczynski reflects on and presents the culturally diverse techniques of textile production.

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

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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 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 CONVERSATION IN THE EXHIBITION „THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking“

With Nora Schön

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, Nora Schön 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 CURATOR’S GUIDED TOUR “Resist-dye techniques: The play of colours and ikat strands”

With Vanessa von Gliszczynski (curator South East Asia, Weltkulturen Museum)

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, curator Vanessa von Gliszczynski 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 plush-textured raffia cloths from Central Africa.

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

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

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

With Berit Mohr (anthropologist and costumier)

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, Berit Mohr 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 CONSERVATORS GUIDED TOUR "Simply Iron?"

With Kristina Werner and Mareike Mehlis (Conservators, Weltkulturen Museum)

What does the work of conservators involve? What are their tasks in setting up an exhibition? And are the textiles in a museum ever ironed? Our conservators Mareike Mehlis and Kristina Werner provide not just the answers, but also a rather different perspective on the exhibition.
 

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

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Δ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR “THE COMMON THREAD”

“New patterns for old”

Where do our clothes come from? What are the different manufacturing processes they go through? After exploring THE COMMON THREAD exhibition, we redesign rejected T-shirts using a hot press. Please bring along a T-shirt!

From 6 years old.
€6. No registration required
Weltkulturen Education, Schaumainkai 29

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

With Berit Mohr (anthropologist and costumier)

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, Berit Mohr 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 GUIDED TOUR “THE COMMON THREAD - The warp and weft of thinking”

With Berit Mohr (anthropologist and costumier)

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, Berit Mohr 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

schließen

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

Guided tour cancelled

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