Creaviva
| Creaviva Children's Museum | |
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 Logo Creaviva |
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 Loft in the Creaviva Children's Museum |
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| place | Monument im Fruchtland 3 3006 Bern Switzerland 
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| Art | Children's Museum |
| architect | Renzo Piano |
| opening | 2005 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 20,575 (2016) |
| operator | Fondation du Musée des Enfants auprès du Center Paul Klee |
| management | Urs Rietmann |
| Website | www.creaviva-zpk.org |
Creaviva (from Latin creare (to create, to create) and vivere (to live)) is the name of the children's museum for children aged four to 88 in the Paul Klee Center in Bern . It sees itself as a competence center for practical, experience-oriented and interactive art education. The visitors should be introduced to a better understanding of art and thus to themselves through their own creative activities. The Creaviva Children's Museum was founded by the founder of the Zentrum Paul Klee, the orthopedic professor Maurice Edmond Müller and his daughter, Janine Aebi-Müller, who trained as an art teacher in the USA. The Creaviva Children's Museum opened in 2005 at the same time as the Paul Klee Center .
history
Professor Dr. med. Maurice Edmond Müller , world-famous orthopedic surgeon, academic teacher, researcher and developer of orthopedic instruments, prostheses and surgical techniques, and his wife Martha Müller-Lüthi decided in 1998 to give the city and canton of Bern the building of the Paul Klee interdisciplinary center (ZPK) to enable. They made well over CHF 100 million available for this. The ZPK, planned and built by the Italian architect Renzo Piano , opened in 2005.
Because sustainable art mediation, based on people's own creativity, was particularly important to them, Maurice Edmond Müller and his daughter Janine Aebi-Müller founded the Fondation du Musée des during the planning and construction phase of the ZPK on June 10, 2002 Enfants auprès du Center Paul Klee (FME) and provided them with financial means of CHF 5.5 million for operation during the first seven years. They did this in order to give practical art mediation the central place it deserved in the future Zentrum Paul Klee.
10 days after the FME was founded, on June 20, 2002, the foundation stone for the ZPK was laid where the KM Creaviva is located today.
After the establishment of the FME until the opening in 2005, the team that prepared the start of operations of the ZPK, thanks to the generosity of Maurice Edmond Müller, was able to get an idea of the state of museum education in Europe in the most important European children's museums. From this and from the collaboration with other museum educational services, Janine Aebi-Müller and Adrian Weber, the first director of the Children's Museum Creaviva, did not develop another museum didactic unit similar to that already existing in practically all art museums, but rather they have a practical institution Art mediation created that starts from approaches that have not yet been used.
Foundation, endowment
From 2002 to mid-2007, Maurice E. Müller personally chaired the FME. Janine Aebi-Müller has headed the foundation since then.
Today the Board of Trustees is composed as follows:
- Janine Aebi-Müller, President
- Hans Ulrich Glarner
- Ulrich Hofmann
- Corinne Mariéthoz-Aebi
- Andreas Marti, Vice President, until December 28, 2018
- Ueli Winzenried
concept
The first children's museums were created in the USA around 1900 . The first foundations in Europe followed in 1970 , and the first children's museum in Switzerland was opened in 1984 in Baden . After 1980, museum education services were set up in many museums in Switzerland.
The children's museum Creaviva in the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern sees itself, in contrast to most museum educational institutions, as a competence center for practical, experience-oriented and interactive art education. It is about introducing the visitors to art , to understanding and absorbing art and artistic content through their own creativity and with the help of the visual work of Paul Klee .
The participants deal creatively with art in workshops with an integrated visit to the collection or a temporary exhibition of the ZPK, in one-hour open studios or in interactive exhibitions. The starting point is always either a technique used by Paul Klee, a topic he has worked on in a single work or a series of works, or the current exhibition at the ZPK. The Creaviva Children's Museum goes beyond the previously cultivated forms of art mediation, because the participants develop their design and sensory skills and thus their ability to view art through their own creative work. The goal is achieved when the visitors feel attracted and touched by art and artistic statements. It is particularly important to keep the thresholds for visiting museums low so that people who normally do not visit museums can also find access to art. Offers are aimed at kindergartens and schools of all levels, at people with disabilities, children, young people, entire families, as well as through further training offers for companies and other adult groups to adults.
deals
Workshops
The designation “Children's Museum” suggests that the offers are aimed exclusively at children. However, the founders wanted to reach a multigenerational audience right from the start, "because there is a child inside every person".
In addition to children from 4 years of age, adolescents and schools of all levels, adults also take part in workshops. These are always combined with a tour of the current exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee. With their visits to the Creaviva Children's Museum, the schools fulfill part of the curriculum in the subject of artistic design. Companies hold team events, teachers receive further training and free groups of adults use the offers to celebrate an anniversary or as a leisure activity. The group workshops lasting several hours are mainly used by school classes. Thanks to the deliberately not cost-covering prices and the cooperation with RailAway, these come from all over Switzerland.
Since 2011, workshops and guided tours for people with disabilities have been held under the title “Klee ohne Barrieren” and since autumn 2012, workshops in architecture mediation have been offered under the title “Saper vedere” for schools in secondary levels I and II.
The courses for children, which combine musical and artistic creation, are also an important offer. These are offered together with the Bern Conservatory .
Courses
Since 2011, courses on “Art and New Media (“ creaTiV! ”)” Have been held for young people on the basis of digital image and sound processing technologies, in which Paul Klee's design principles and techniques are used to produce animated films (e.g. in Stop motion technique).
During the school holidays, children and young people can attend summer courses with changing topics. The Children's Forum takes place every Saturday during school hours, in which children can immerse themselves in the adventure of art, color and shapes and thus encounter the work of Paul Klee.
Examples of conveyed content and techniques:
- collage
- watercolor
- etching
- Impasto
- mosaic
- screen printing
- Stamp drawing
- Architectural models and techniques
- Sculptures made of plaster over wire skeleton
- Painting with paint rollers and acrylic paints
Interactive exhibitions
In the spacious loft in front of the three large studios, visitors to the ZPK and the Creaviva Children's Museum are shown interactive exhibitions. They refer to an ongoing exhibition and invite visitors to lend a hand, to become active, to help shape the exhibition and thus change it.
Open studio
For children of all ages, adults and the whole family, the "Open Atelier", which has existed since the opening in 2005 and was developed by the then director, Adrian Weber, is offered. Here, too, the participants are introduced to the art and work of Paul Klee through their own work.
Professional art educators accompany the participants and within an hour introduce them to a certain technique from the field of art or a certain topic from the work of Paul Klee. The topics change monthly and are always related to the current exhibitions at the Zentrum Paul Klee.
The aim is to introduce visitors to new techniques and materials and to experience joy in the play of colors and shapes.
The open studio lasts one hour and is offered Tuesday to Friday at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at 12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Renzo Piano's building
The Creaviva Children's Museum is housed in the Paul Klee Center, built by the Italian architect Renzo Piano . The building in Schöngrün, on the eastern edge of the city of Bern, very easy to reach by public transport and by car, is characterized by three hills, formed from steel arches, each with different functions.
The three hills are connected by a 150 m long so-called “Museum Street”, which is designed as a “promenade” with a museum shop, cafeteria and information.
The Creaviva Children's Museum occupies the basement in the north hill, which is open to the west through a continuous glass front and which visitors can see from the outside.
A total of around 700 m² is available with the loft for the interactive exhibitions and three studios for the workshops and the open studio.
The entire Paul Klee Center is handicapped accessible.
literature
- Zentrum Paul Klee (Ed.): Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1532-0 (extensive catalog with accompanying CD-ROM documents )
- Zentrum Paul Klee (Ed.): Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern - The architecture. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, 160 pages, 120 illustrations, 103 of them in color, ISBN 3-7757-1549-5 (English ISBN 3-7757-1550-9 ; French ISBN 3-7757-1551-7 )
Web links
- Official website
- Creaviva on the Bern Tourism website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual Report 2016 Zentrum Paul Klee. In: Annual report. Zentrum Paul Klee, June 9, 2017, p. 33 , accessed on March 19, 2018 (Combined Annual Report Kunstmuseum Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee and Creaviva; PDF from p. 25. PDF download 1.2 MB. Number of visitors 2016 p. 28) .
- ^ Center Paul Klee, Bern. Edited by Zentrum Paul Klee, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2005, p. 310.
- ^ Center Paul Klee, Bern. Edited by Zentrum Paul Klee, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2005, p. 95.