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 LECTURE

“Migration – Flight and Trauma”

With Prof. Dr. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt)

Every experience of migration causes a severe emotional shock. However, such an experience must not necessarily lead to traumatisation. On the contrary , how the experience is processed and to which extent grief over the loss is possible plays an important role.

The interdisciplinary pilot project STEP-BY-STEP supports refugees in the initial reception centre Michaelisdorf in Darmstadt. The refugees have fled from war zones, torture, terror and the lack of prospects in their home countries. A form of migration, whichoften leads to traumatisation.

STEP-BY-STEP is being run by a research team of the Sigmund-Freud-Institute (Head: M. Leuzinger-Bohleber) and Goethe University (Head: S. Andresen) in close cooperation with the initial reception centre Michaelisdorf since January 2016. The project is supported by the Ministry of Social Affairs of Hesse. It tries to support refugees in various ways and to encourage them to integrate themselves into Germany in the long-term.

In her lecture, Prof. Dr. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber explains the notion of trauma and provides an insight into her work in Michaelisdorf.

In German
€5 / reduced €2.50
Weltkulturen Labor, 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. No registration necessary
Weltkulturen Education, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ PAZIFIC FORUM LECTURE

“History and memory of the 1965´s events in Indonesia”

With junior professor Elsa Clavé (Southeast Asian Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt)

The lecture discusses the wave of mass killings in Indonesia in 1965, when the armed forces and civilian vigilante groups killed those who were, or were thought to be, Communist party members or sympathisers. Estimates put the numbers of those murdered between 500,000 and three million. The destruction of the left wing in Indonesia led to drastic changes in society, with social, political and economic rights severely restricted.

In English
€5 / reduced €2.50
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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Δ ANNUAL LECTURE - WELTKULTUREN FRIENDS

“The medicine of the black gods - voodoo and ritual practice”

With Gert Chesi (photographer, author and journalist, Museum der Völker, Schwaz, Austria)

Even today, traditional medicine is still deeply rooted in African cultures. The treatments and remedies not only involve herbal or mineral remedies, but also have a spiritual aspect. They draw on a rich pantheon of gods whose spirit beings can be invoked to assist the process of healing. Gert Chesi shows his film “Die Medizin der schwarzen Götter” (The Medicine of the Black Gods) from 2015 before discussing his encounters with voodoo and the role of trance in healing.

Gert Chesi has a special relationship with the Weltkulturen Museum since the late 1980s when the museum acquired nearly 10,000 of his slides taken in North and West Africa.

In German
€5 / reduced €2.50
Reduced entrance for members
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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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