Institution Tag: Museum

Deutsches
Hygiene-
Museum
Dresden

Deutsches <br>Hygiene-<br>Museum<br>Dresden
© Oliver Killig

About us

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (DHMD) is an open forum for discussion, open to everyone who is interested in the cultural, social and scientific revolutions taking place in our society at the beginning of the 21st century.

The Project

Opening Time: The DHMD in Transformation

Faced with social polarization and financial uncertainty, the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden is using the challenges of our time as a stimulus for profound change. With a long-term strategy, the museum aims to evolve from a purely curatorially-focused institution into a space that increasingly prioritises participation and diversity. To achieve this, opening processes will be structurally embedded, and sustainable alliances with the city’s community and national partners will be built. In this way, the museum is transforming into a multi-voiced forum for social dialogue – open, accessible, and future-oriented.

Contact

Anja Sommer

Kooperationen

Iris Edenheiser

Director

Histori
sches
Museum
Frankfurt

Histori<br>sches <br>Museum <br>Frankfurt
© Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Stefanie Kösling

About us

Historisches Museum Frankfurt is the city’s oldest museum and one of the largest city museums in Europe.

The Project

Commoning the Museum: City Museums for a Socially Just Society

How can museums convey a multi-voiced and inclusive historical culture amid the pressures of radical political forces? The Historisches Museum Frankfurt and Stadtmuseum Dresden are embarking on a journey to open museums as spaces for social cohesion, actively engaging audience groups that have previously been underrepresented. This raises the question: what constitutes historical culture – and how can a clear vision of it help to strengthen democratic values such as plurality and inclusion?
Collaborative learning, new forms of cooperation, and the considered use of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, aim to create new spaces of possibility: for shared decision-making, creation, and exchange – in line with the guiding principle of “commoning the museum.”

Contact

Dr. Angela Jannelli

Projectmanagement & Curation

Dr. Doreen Mölders

Director

Focke-
Museum

Bremer Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
Focke-<br>Museum
© Focke-Museum Bremen

About us

Set within a spacious park are four historic buildings, the modern main building, and the visible storage facility. Together, they create a fascinating interplay between the permanent collections on urban history and general cultural history. Special exhibitions regularly update this programme, focusing on themes such as urban history, arts and crafts and design, photography, and art.

The Project

freiSTIL – Co-Creative Work in History Museums

The Focke Museum in Bremen is using its current structural expansion as an opportunity for fundamental change: in future, the museum and a citizens’ forum are to be conceived together – as a place for shared remembrance, discussion, and creation. Within this initiative, values and models for the museum of the future are being developed on a local scale. This raises questions such as: Which perspectives are taken into account in communicating history? How does the museum engage with social controversies? How does it contribute to democratic coexistence?
Through international networking, new impulses for exhibitions and collaborations are emerging. For what the Focke Museum presents reaches far beyond Bremen: regional history here is understood as part of global history – and as a collective task for tomorrow and the day after.

Contact

Dr. Bora Akşen

Kurator Medien & Stadtlabor

Prof. Dr. Anna Greve

Director