Guided Tour for Students “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”

How is knowledge created? What is science? What are facts? The Age of Enlightenment is regarded as the age of knowledge and the emergence of new sciences. The exhibition addresses numerous questions of this epoch, its ambivalences and contradictions. Topics such as the systematic recording and ordering of the world, the emergence of the (natural) sciences or the consolidation of gender roles specific to the time, which preoccupied the newly emerging public of the 18th century, are critically examined in the exhibition and are the focus of the guided tours.

In addition to these focal points, the guided tours pick up on specific interests of the students by arrangement and thematise these in various areas of the exhibition. Participants are invited to contribute their current academic perspectives on the themes of the exhibition. In dialogue with the educational advisors, they relate these to the ideas of the Enlightenment, classify them historically and create space for a critical discussion about the era.

Duration: 60 minutes

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, German