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Sharing Museums – Inclusive education in the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt

Smuggled Goods, Foreign Bodies, and Angel Hair

Owl Ahead!

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Researchers Club “Gallus”, Weltkulturen Museum 2016
Researchers Club “Gallus”, Weltkulturen Museum 2016
Researchers Club “Gallus”, Weltkulturen Museum 2016
Researchers Club “Gallus”, Weltkulturen Museum 2016

Weltkulturen Researchers Club

How do you actually do “research”?

The Weltkulturen Museum’s Researchers Club is especially designed for children aged between 8 and 12. The Club members meet once a month to conduct field research in practical and sometimes unusual ways! The Researchers Club has one key feature – its members also look for answers outside the museum. The Club has organised four editions since autumn 2012. In the previous editions, Club members conducted research into Frankfurt’s Gallus, the Frobenius Institute, the Weltkulturen Museum depot and holdings, the Leonid Matthias fashion label, the Arnold Auction House and the Challenge Club boxing association.

Gallus Researchers Club, 2016

The Gallus Researchers Club was a two-month project with unaccompanied refugee minors from Afghanistan, Eritrea, and Guinea who were visiting a language course run by the ASB Lehrerkooperative.

At a total of five meetings, the young people conducted aesthetic field research in Frankfurt’s Gallus district, viewing it through the camera lens, or from above, or collecting sounds, colours and words. They also produced a stop-motion-film in the Gallus Zentrum, a youth culture and media centre, visited two artists’ studios, the Gallus Boxing Camp and various companies on the Teves industrial site employing trainees, and explored the exhibition A LABOUR OF LOVE in the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt. The project concluded with a presentation, exhibition and live performance in the Gallus Zentrum.

Project Management: Stephanie Endter and Esther Poppe

Project Assistant: Julia Köchling

We would like to thank all of those we visited during the course of the project, in particular the Gallus Zentrum for the use of their rooms for the final presentation. Our thanks also go to our cooperation partner ASB Lehrerkooperative and all the young people who joined this field trip, and conducted their research whatever the weather! The Researchers Club is generously supported by the Friends of the Weltkulturen Museum.

Project period: February and March 2016