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

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. 

It began with a short conversation on Twitter and a to-do-list for 2013 as the new year was just three weeks off.  

What actually happens in the project office after the exhibition has opened?

What does the project team do once the catalogue is edited, the artworks safely shipped and installed in the museum, the blog and the Facebook page set up, the exhibition design decided, the audio guide mixed, the opening remarks made, and the exhibition officially opened?

A comparison of project members’ desks. 

Some call it winter; we call it museum weather. Even if it isn’t that cold, the monotone grey outside doesn’t exactly make you think of long walks. Nonetheless, in an effort to convince more visitors of the true value of ‘museum weather’ and our exhibition, we invited two organisations, Livekritik and Kulturloge Berlin, in for a visit.