A week of researching and teaching, learning and living in (the middle of) the museum: from 22 to 27 July 2024, the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology was organizing a one-week practical course on current topics and tasks of museums together with the LWL Open-Air Museum Detmold (“Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Alltagskultur”). Participants gained in-depth insights into the museum as a field of practice, as a place of research, as a collection and educational institution and much more.
“Making of - museum in the making”: The Summer School 2024 thus followed the current motto of the Detmold Open-Air Museum and was interested in the making and transformations of this institution. Over the course of the week, a communication and curatorial project was developed in collaboration with the course director, the invited international guest curator and the staff on site. Master’s students of cultural anthropology, history and art history could take part.
Concept and management
Prof. Dr. Lioba Keller-Drescher
Professor of European Ethnology with a focus on museums, collections and material culture at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology and In-House Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change” at the University of Münster
International guest curator
Dr. Birgit Johler (Graz/Vienna)
Curator at the Volkskundemuseum Graz – Universalmuseum Joanneum and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change” at the University of Münster
Sponsors
The event was supported by the LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold, the Verein der Freunde des Museums, Fachbereich 8 of the University of Münster and the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change” .