With its extensive collection, the Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster offers all those interested exciting insights into the art and handicrafts of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean region, the Near East, Ancient Egypt, Southern Arabia and late medieval and early modern Münster.

In collaboration with the Ukrainian NGO Після тиші / After Silence, the Department of Eastern European History and Ukrainian Studies in Münster (USiM) would like to use this exhibition in the foyer of the Philosophikum to shed light on the history of Nazi forced labour using the example of the fate and first-person documents of Hanna Pastuch, a Ukrainian ‘Eastern worker’ in Gelsenkirchen. The exhibition is presented in German and Ukrainian and can be visited from 21 November to 14 December 2024.

The body has always been part of the practices and ideas of religions worldwide. This is shown in the exhibition ‘Body. Cult. Religion. Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present’ by the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster. It can be seen from 25 October 2024 to 26 February 2025 in the Archaeological Museum and the Bible Museum at the University of Münster.

Anna Katharina Emmerick, the ‘Blessed of the Münsterland’, is still present today in the places where she was born and where she died and is also honoured worldwide. Together with students from the University of Münster, the Coesfeld City Museum has put together this special exhibition, which will be on display from 31 August 2024 to 2 February 2025. Above all, it explores the question of what we really know about Anna Katharina Emmerick and what was only reported about her by contemporary witnesses, later admirers or critics and is therefore possibly only a matter of faith.

The digital exhibition uses letters, photographs, music manuscripts, concert programmes and numerous other objects to illustrate the eventful life of the composer and conductor Julius Otto Grimm (1827–1903). Grimm worked as a conductor, composer and musician in Münster from 1860 to 1900. He was also a lecturer in music theory and singing and to a certain extent founded music education in an academic context in Münster. For almost 100 years, his personal legacy has remained largely unprocessed in the Münster city archives.

The programme of a discipline can be found in outlines, handbooks and encyclopaedias. The history of science is usually written linearly as progress and improvement. A historical-epistemological perspective, on the other hand, is interested in the media and techniques of scientific work – book collections, teaching materials, library systematics. As part of a teaching research project in the MA Cultural Anthropology programme, this material was made visible as traces in 2013/2014.