Δ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR “STORIES NARRATE HISTORY”

“The museum of tomorrow”

Objects and artefacts in museums recount histories and narratives from the past, but what can they say about today and tomorrow? In the exhibition STORIES NARRATE HISTORY we consider together how tomorrow’s museum could look like and create our own design.

From six years old.
In German
€7.50. Registration necessary:
Weltkulturen Education, 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 WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR “STORIES NARRATE HISTORY”

“The museum of tomorrow”

Objects and artefacts in museums recount histories and narratives from the past, but what can they say about today and tomorrow? In the exhibition STORIES NARRATE HISTORY we consider together how tomorrow’s museum could look like and create our own design.

From six years old.
In German
€7.50. Registration necessary:
Weltkulturen Education, Schaumainkai 29

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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

Δ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR “STORIES NARRATE HISTORY”

“The museum of tomorrow”

Objects and artefacts in museums recount histories and narratives from the past, but what can they say about today and tomorrow? In the exhibition STORIES NARRATE HISTORY we consider together how tomorrow’s museum could look like and create our own design.

From six years old.
In German
€7.50. Registration necessary:
Weltkulturen Education, Schaumainkai 29

schließen

Δ EXHIBITION OPENING

“SHOW ME WHERE YOU COME FROM - Children draw their homes, flight and dreams”

Since September 2015, artist Dieter Mammel paints together with refugee children in two of Berlin’s initial reception camps. He was moved to become involved not only by his encounters with the first refugees on the island of Kos in August 2015, but above all by his own family history. By recounting how his own parents and grandparents fled from the Balkans to Germany during the Second World War, he encouraged the children to tell their own stories. For Dieter Mammel as well as the children, drawing and painting offered a chance to communicate with each other intensively, even across language barriers. In this process, the children, aged five to fifteen, have created impressive personal drawings and group paintings. They recount the children’s origins in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, their journeys to Germany, and their first impressions when they arrived. From the children’s perspective, they tell of tank deployments and shelling, dangerous sea crossings in unsafe boats, heavily guarded borders and fears – yet also of friendship, their future hopes and dreams.

At the Haus am Waldsee, a leading venue for international contemporary art in Berlin, Dieter Mammel and Director Katja Blomberg presented his project to the public for the first time. Afterwards, the works were also exhibited in the Berliner Dom, the Berlin Cathedral.

Frankfurt’s Weltkulturen Museum presents now a comprehensive selection of over 50 large-scale drawings and sketches related to the three overarching themes of home, flight, and arriving in Germany. In the first group of works, the children depict the homes they had to leave, war and their desire for peace, while the second focuses on their flight to Germany. The third group of works not only offers an insight into the children’s first impressions of Germany, but also their wishes and dreams for the future. The works are complemented by paintings and installations of the artist Dieter Mammel. In the accompanying film “Erzähl mir, woher Du kommst” (Tell me where you come from), produced together with Matthias Grübel, the children talk about their pictures. Their drawings help them to recount their experiences, and their body language also reveals just how deeply they are affected by their memories and hopes.

For the Weltkulturen Museum, the presentation of this project is also an experiment. How flexibly can a museum react to a current and sensitive issue? Which expectations can it meet, and how far? How do visitors react – and what debates does it trigger? We invite you to discuss these questions with us in the context of the education programme.

Lender: Stephanie and Wolfgang Bohn, Dieter Mammel (Gallery Hübner+Hübner Frankfurt)

Concert at the opening! 
At the opening, Ustad Ghulam Hussain (Frankfurt, Germany) and Mirwais Neda (Friedberg, Germany) will be playing traditional Afghan music on rubab and tabla.

Ranked as one of the world’s ten best rubab players, Ustad Ghulam Hussain is part of the “Safar – Afghanistan meets Germany” project organised by the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar. After fleeing from Afghanistan, he has been living in Frankfurt am Main since October 2014.

Music from Ustad Ghulam Hussain: 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Rm9ayMhb4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x70yFuo05fA

Supported by the Weltkulturen Freundeskreis

Accompanying publication
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication in both German and English containing numerous illustrations. Supported by Strofhoff International School, Beate und Dr. Daniel Schmid, the companies Imtradex and Karl Kolb, Bettina and Franz Otto, Katja and Axel König, Ulrike and Peter Thoma.

Running time
25th August – 9th October 2016

€3.50 / reduced €2
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm and Wed, 11am-8pm
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ MUSEUMSUFERFEST 2016 (Museum Embankment Festival)

In the exhibition “SHOW ME WHERE YOU COME FROM - Children draw their homes, flight and dreams”, guest curator and artist Dieter Mammel presents a series of impressive works by refugee children. These works have been created during a drawing project on-going since September 2015 in two of Berlin’s initial reception camps.

Through its narratives telling of doubts or formative moments in life, of joys or curious incidents, the STORIES NARRATE HISTORY exhibition in the Weltkulturen Labor offers an unusual, almost intimate insight into life and work in the buildings that house today’s Weltkulturen Museum.

Ustad Ghulam Hussain on rubab and tabla player Mirwais Neda (Friedberg, Germany) invite the audience to take a musical journey to Afghanistan. Ranked as one of the world’s ten best rubab players, Ustad Ghulam Hussain is part of the “Safar – Afghanistan meets Germany” project organised by the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar. After fleeing from Afghanistan, he has been living in Frankfurt am Main since October 2014.

Music from Ustad Ghulam Hussain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Rm9ayMhb4 and www.youtube.com/watch?v=x70yFuo05fA

Opening hours of the exhibitions
Fri, 3–10pm and Sat, 12am–10pm as well as Sun, 11am–8pm

Friday, 26th August
7pm
Conversation in the exhibition STORIES NARRATE HISTORY

Saturday, 27th August
7pm
Conversation in the exhibition STORIES NARRATE HISTORY

Sunday, 28th August
3pm
Curator’s guided tour SHOW ME WHERE YOU COME FROM

5pm 
Concert: Rubab player Ustad Ghulam Hussain and Mirwais Neda on tabla perform traditional Afghan music.

7pm
Conversation in the exhibition STORIES NARRATE HISTORY

Museumsuferfest-Buttons are available at the entrance of the Weltkulturen Museum.
Weltkulturen Museum and Weltkulturen Labor
Schaumainkai 29 and 37

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