Deutsches Historisches Museum - Verf�hrung Freiheit. Kunst in Europa seit 1945 - Blog

We usually present a Tuesday Question here. But we held our very first MuseUp last Friday, so we would like tell you about it—or answer the question: How did our #MuseUp go? 

How do the museum guides prepare themselves for ever new exhibitions? What are the challenges facing a museum guide? And which is his favourite picture? We placed these and many more questions to our museum guide Philippe Carasco, who, by the way, was also the guide for our #MuseUp. 

The Catholic University in Eichstatt-Ingolstadt developed history workshops on certain subjects to supplement the DHM education department’s pedagogical programme: ‘Icons of terror—icons of freedom’, ‘Way to stop the forgetting: remembrance and commemoration in contemporary art’, and ‘Worlds to live in, worlds to take in'. What is unique about the history workshops is they encourage the students themselves to become the creative ones.

We were not the only curious ones, so our ninth Tuesday Question is: How does a history workshop actually go? 

In the fifth instalment of our ‘Stories from our Travels’, co-curator Ulrike Schmiegelt tells us about a trip that she and our curator Monika Flacke took to Moscow in search of additional objects for the exhibition. A further protagonist in the story: a sparrow on Stalin’s head countering Soviet nostalgia. 

Our Tuesday Questions have looked into what goes on behind the scenes (or at the desks) in the project office, why we have both analogue and digital versions of the exhibition catalogue, how the exhibition artworks are selected, or who Leo Glückselig actually is.

Today’s Tuesday Question looks beyond the German Historical Museum. We asked the project team what their favourite exhibition of the past year was, thus following the lead of the Frankfurt Historical Museum’s call for a blog carnival.