DASA - Working World Exhibition

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Dasa in Dortmund (2011).
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The DASA - Working World Exhibition is a museum in Dortmund opened in 1993 as a German occupational safety exhibition and sees itself as a creative learning place for safety and health at work with recreational value.

DASA is part of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health . On September 10, 1980, the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs , Herbert Ehrenberg , entrusted this federal institute by decree to set up a permanent exhibition for occupational safety in order to “talk about the world of work, its status in society and its humane design as well as about safety in Home, leisure and school [to] inform ”after the North Rhine-Westphalian state government included the establishment of this exhibition in the Ruhr action program in 1979 . From 1988 a small planning team under Gerhard Kilger developed the concept of the exhibition, which celebrated a partial opening in 1993 with the exhibition units "In the rhythm of the machine", "In the race for the latest news" and "On the screen". In 1996, DASA received the Luigi Micheletti Prize for the best new technology and industrial museum in Europe, the second prize at the European Museum of the Year Award for exceptional design and the photokina special prize for innovative and multimedia communication. The current exhibition building was completed in 2000 as a decentralized location for the world exhibition Expo 2000 with 13,000 m² of exhibition space. It is also a selected location for the Land of Ideas initiative . The DASA has around 200,000 visitors annually.

The premises are also used as an event location, for example the DASA youth congress takes place here every year . The building has a canteen accessible to visitors. The exhibits may expressly only be photographed for personal use.

The historian and philosopher Gregor Isenbort is head of DASA .

Permanent exhibition

Entrance area of ​​Dasa.
Transparent man in his various forms at the beginning of the exhibition tour.

With an interactive exhibition, DASA focuses on people and their physical, mental, social and cultural concerns. With its leitmotif People - Work - Technology , DASA shows a holistic understanding of people in the world of work beyond the strict occupational safety . There is an A320 flight simulator .

The exhibits at the exhibition include typewriters , calculating machines , televisions , desktop computers and manual printing machines . This contrasts with modern office equipment that points to the problem of rigid posture when working. This so-called forced posture is a leitmotif of DASA. Clocks and clocks made it possible to synchronize the work of the employees. There is also the area of ​​"healing and care", which is characterized by occupational medicine.

Structural and civil engineering sites are shown in the inner courtyard of the building, which in particular offer employment opportunities for children. Excavator driving can also be tried out there in good weather. There is also a tunnel construction site that shows the creation of a subway tunnel.

Remnants of the truck from the Herborn accident

Looms are presented and a historical typesetting or printing shop and bookbinding shop can be visited. The more modern devices include an industrial robot and one of the largest notebooks in the world. The control center of a coal-fired power plant is reproduced in a hall. In the steel hall, the largest exhibition unit, there is an electric arc furnace and a "ghost train" that shows dangers in warehouse management in 90 seconds. An old tram from Dortmund can be viewed, as well as the burned-out remains of the truck from the Herborn accident in July 1987. There is also an exhibition area on the topic of “Working Environment”, which deals with the human senses.

The physical phenomena shown include electrostatic discharge and the cloud chamber .

Temporary exhibitions

A humanoid robot during "The Robots".

There are two rooms for special exhibitions: The popular interactive exhibitions take place in the ExCenter. New exhibition formats and thematic exhibitions have their place in the DASA gallery. There is an extensive supporting program for each project.

Web links

Commons : DASA - Working World Exhibition  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The history of DASA . Website in the dasa-dortmund.de portal , accessed on September 1, 2015
  2. DASA: DASA story
  3. Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: Work makes you sick - but this is counteracted. (DASA working world exhibition) In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 1, Northern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 122–123, ISBN 978-3-7776-2510-2 .

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