Alice - Museum for Children

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The Alice - Museum for Children (until May 2012: Children's Museum in the FEZ ) is a children's museum in the leisure and recreation center (FEZ) of Berlin's Wuhlheide in the former Volkspark Wuhlheide in the Oberschöneweide district .

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With its exhibition content, it aims at socially relevant topics and current educational discussions such as life and death , health , money and shopping or consumer protection . There are thematically designed rooms with walk-in presentations. Interactive installations and objects illustrate relationships that are otherwise not accessible to children in this way. Through a mixture of exhibits to touch , but also museum objects to look at, the visitors are invited to action and communication and thus to discuss and reflect on learning content. The desired variety of methods and interdisciplinarity allow visitors to acquire the exhibition content individually and depending on their interests, alone or together, via different approaches. The eight traveling exhibitions were shown in over 40 museums in Germany and Europe. The Children's Museum is a member of the Federal Association of German Children's and Youth Museums .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2001 “DEFA Fairy Tale Films”; Curators : Joachim Gira, Claudia Lorenz, Klemens Kühn
  • 2001 "Mice Money and Monet"; Curator: Claudia Lorenz
  • 2002 "Tell me something about death"; Curators: Claudia Lorenz, Klemens Kühn
  • 2004 "Look what you are buying"; Curator: Claudia Lorenz
  • 2007 “Attention Family”; Curators: Claudia Lorenz, Birgit Brüll, Klemens Kühn
  • 2009 “Say what was the GDR”, curators: Birgit Brüll, Klemens Kühn, Claudia Lorenz
  • 2011 “Willkommen @ Hotel Global”, curators: Claudia Lorenz, Birgit Brüll, Klemens Kühn
  • 2014 "Pop up Cranach", curators: Claudia Lorenz, Stefan Ostermeyer
  • 2014 "Cranach goes Asia" Curators: Noriko Takano, Claudia Lorenz, Klemens Kühn

"Tell me about death"

The interactive exhibition "Tell me something about death" by the Children's Museum in FEZ Berlin and the Francke Foundations in Halle is an exhibition about the ' before and after ' for children aged eight and over. It should enable an open and differentiated confrontation with death. Foreign customs, notions of death and the afterlife from different epochs and cultures exemplarily show differences and similarities in how people deal with death and how they imagine the afterlife. Visitors to the exhibition are encouraged to question their own ideas and existing rituals of death by means of the depicted foreign cultures. The journey leads to the realm of the dead of the Egyptians, to Mexico and to Europe. A lot can be actively tried out and touched. Together with their parents and grandparents, the children experience that death is part of life and that humans, like animals or plants, grow, bloom and perish as part of nature.

Previous stations of the exhibition were: Museum for Sepulchral Culture in Kassel, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover , Helmsmuseum Hamburg , State Museum of Prehistory Dresden , Museum am Burghof Lörrach, Children's Museum Munich, Children's Museum Mondo Mio Dortmund, Cultural Capital Luxembourg, ZOOM Children's Museum Vienna, Children's Museum Frida and Fred Graz, Bielefeld Natural History Museum, Parochial Church Berlin

"Attention family!"

The basic idea of ​​this interactive exhibition is a large labyrinth through which the visitor wanders and which connects the selected families and topics with one another. This labyrinth symbol corresponds best to the current situation of coexistence, in which there are distinguishable categories of families, but which merge into one another or alternate in time. Since it is not only about the outer form of the life of fathers, mothers and children, but above all about the wishes and visions behind them, the 24 rooms are a combination of indoor and outdoor spaces, nature, sky, narrow and wide, light and darkness, of absolute silence and very sound-stressed rooms. In short, it's a lot about the emotional and physical experience of the topics, about an intensive introduction to a complicated story, about playing with the difficult reality of everyday family life. The method consisted of extracting an important detail from the complex lives of the sample persons and making this the subject of the corresponding room. So z. E.g. the stress machine for the father in the parental year, the talking bed for the rainbow family or the laundry room for the children's village. The tour begins in the theater of the holy family, where you can see the 10 selected families as clay figures on miniature stages. The visitors will later find these protagonists in the labyrinth in more detail or have to look for them: as a game, as an audio story or as a walk-in installation. It is a journey through different worlds and thoughts. At the end you are in the most abstract and largest room - the family garden. In the surrounding wall compartments we see and hear what experiences and tips the 30 interviewed mothers and fathers can give us.

Previous stations of the exhibition were: Alice - Museum for Children 2007, Franckesche Stiftungen Halle, Edwin Scharf Museum Neu-Ulm, ZOOM Children's Museum Vienna 2012 ("Alles Familie!"), Hygiene-Museum Dresden 2014 ("Alles Familie!")

"Say what was the GDR"

An interactive traveling exhibition based on GDR children's diaries. The level of daily diary entries made by children makes it clear that on the one hand there was very simple normality even under a regime - that is, identification opportunities for today's visitors. On the other hand, it can be reported from this everyday life how people, regardless of their worldview, enforced or gave up humanitarian principles in simple situations. And how it was up to date every day and how arguments and conflict training remain up to the present day.

Previous stations of the exhibition: Alice Museum for Children 2008, City Museum Erlangen, City Museum Hofheim, Historical Museum Hanover

"Cranach goes Asia"

A collaboration between the Alice Children's Museum and the Children Museum of Art in Hamada as part of the “Pop Up Cranach” exhibition in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. The Japanese part of the project is funded by the Japanese Ministry of Culture. The cooperation included the start of the children's workshops in Berlin with a primary school from Kreuzberg. In this context, a ten meter long picture frieze was created, inspired by the pictures of the Cranach workshop. The picture frieze was continued in Hamada by Japanese children under the guidance of 2 employees of the Alice Children's Museum. In addition, further workshops on Cranach portraits and figures, dragon signatures and Renaissance costumes took place there.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '31.7 "  N , 13 ° 33' 12.2"  E