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 “STORIES NARRATE HISTORY”

Weltkulturen Labor and Green Room Exhibition

Opening: Wednesday, 13th July, 7pm

How would a 1950s girl feel if she lived in a magnificent Wilhelminian villa, why are Tintin and Snowy important for the work in the Africa Collection, and why is a missing chocolate ear causing a big stir?

The Weltkulturen Museum was founded in 1904 by a group of citizens for citizens. For over a century it has been a place where stories have been created, collected and narrated, but also repeatedly discarded. Who tells what, what remains untold, and what is ultimately recorded?

STORIES NARRATE HISTORY focuses on personal perspectives of the Weltkulturen Museum which have never previously been told. The stories are strange, formative, cheerful, or doubtful, revealing unfamiliar and almost intimate insights into life and work in the buildings at Schaumainkai 29–37. The aim is not to provide a comprehensive historiography or re-narrate the museum’s history, but instead to focus on the people who have inscribed their own histories into the institution.

The exhibition uses objects, historical documents, architectural plans, photographs and publications to show that there is more than one objective reality. This forum for polyphony and multiple perspectives provides space for subjective points of view, inviting visitors to examine the exhibits and the history of this museum from a range of standpoints.

The debates concerning insufficient exhibition space are also tightly interwoven with the museum’s history. For almost fifty years there has been talk of expanding the museum: models, designs, and extensive correspondence on the issue will also be on display in two rooms.

The discussion space initiated specially for this exhibition invites visitors to exchange opinions and undertake their own analysis of topics relating to the museum. In addition, visitors will be able to put together their own small history book from stories told in the exhibition.

Postcards spanning decades of museum history can be purchased from our small shop, as well as posters, bags, games and an edition of chocolate artworks by artist Minerva Cuevas (Mexico).

Running time:
14th July - 9th October 2016

Weltkulturen Labor and Green Room
Schaumainkai  37, 60594 Frankfurt
Tues–Sun, 11am–6pm and Wed, 11am-8pm
Entrance: € 3 / reduced € 1.50

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Δ CURATOR’S GUIDED TOUR “STORIES NARRATE HISTORY”

With Alice Pawlik (Curator Visual Anthropology, Weltkulturen Museum)

STORIES NARRATE HISTORY focuses on untold personal perspectives of individuals connected to the Weltkulturen Museum. Narratives talking about doubts or life changing moments in life, of joyful or curious incidents, offer an unusual, almost intimate insight into the life and work in the buildings on Schaumainkai 29–37.

Curator Alice Pawlik offers an insight into the origins of the exhibition and into the different perspectives on the objects on display.

About the exhibition

€3/ reduced €1.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Labor und Green Room, Schaumainkai 37

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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