Erich Kästner Museum

Bronze sculpture on the wall of the Erich Kästner Museum in Dresden

Erich Kästner Museum - interactive mobile micromuseum

The Erich Kästner Museum in Dresden , the poet's birthplace, was founded in 1999 and opened in 2000. It is located in the “Villa Augustin” at Antonstrasse  1 and Albertplatz in the Inner New Town . Erich Kästner's uncle , Franz Augustin, a brother of his mother and a wealthy horse dealer, lived here. The young Erich Kästner came to visit often. Many places in the area appear in his stories in the volume When I Was a Little Boy . The Villa Augustin was revitalized through its new, creative use as a museum and is an example of dynamic monument preservation.

The Erich Kästner Museum is a mobile, interactive micromuseum designed by Ruairí O'Brien . When closed, the minimalist museum occupies a 3 × 2 × 1.2 meter cuboid , pictograms form its basis. The museum architecture consists of a multimedia core with exhibition areas for original exhibits, videos, books and 13 movable modules with differently colored drawers. Each drawer color stands for a different aspect of Erich Kästner's life and work. The visitors can discover Erich Kästner themselves by touching, reading and trying out the contents of the drawers. By operating the life-size, multimedia building blocks, interested parties have access to the complex Erich Kästner world, into which they can gain insight on a self-controlled route and at a self-determined pace. The micromuseum does not use a linear route through which the visitor is guided, but each museum walk is designed individually. This educational concept of interactivity, of learning through discovery, implemented in a literature museum, is one of the unique selling points of the Erich Kästner Museum. The resource-saving structure of the micromuseum is also future-oriented. The self-sufficient wooden cuboid can be found almost anywhere and can exist in both small and large exhibition rooms.

True to the concept of the “Doppelten Lottchen”, the “Traveling Micromuseum Exhibition” exists as a traveling twin of the Erich Kästner micromuseum. The traveling exhibition opened in 2014 and has since traveled to places such as Washington DC, Omsk, London and Tokyo.

A similarly conceived Dresden museum is the currently undeveloped prefabricated building museum in Johannstadt , which is also the basis of an O'Brien concept.

In 2015 the Erich Kästner Museum launched a new project, the museum without walls - Erich Kästner Viertel .

Web links

Commons : Erich Kästner Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the museum

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ruairí O'Brien (2007). Form Follows Content - Communication Architecture. In: Ruairí O'Brien et al. (Ed.): The Museum in the 21st Century , 124–154.
2. ↑ Ruairí O'Brien (2005): Microarchitecture. In: Art & Architecture Journal , 02/2005, 61, 42–45.
3. ^ Traveling Micromuseum Exhibition (TME) , Ruairí O'Brien.
4. ^ Museum without walls - Erich Kästner Viertel , accessed on May 11, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 49.6 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 44.5"  E