Museum of the Peoples

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Leon Pollux: "Guardian Spirits" exhibition until March 2018
Exhibition "BALI - Island of the Gods", 2017
Exhibition "INDONESIA - Art and Cult from the Island Realm", 2017

The Museum der Völker in Schwaz, Austria , in the state of Tyrol was founded in 1995 by Gert Chesi as the cultural association Haus der Völker and is one of the ethnographic museums in Europe . After a new building and renovation, the exhibition opened on April 12, 2013.

history

Gert Chesi , photographer, journalist and author, had collected more than a thousand exhibits from all over the world over a period of fifty years. The art objects become the basis of the museum and give an insight into the cultic and artistic creation of mankind.

Cultural association

The cultural association of the same name runs the exhibition and works to use the achievements and skills of foreign cultures to understand and accept the unknown. The association manages the largest collection of Nok figures, a collection of clay objects from the Nok culture from the 6th to 2nd centuries BC, which is now in Nigeria .

Permanent exhibitions

Art objects from distant cultures over a period of four thousand years characterize the museum: stone sculptures from the Khmer , Buddha images from many epochs, terracotta figures from the Nok, ancestral figures from the Dayak , grave finds from China and old bronzes from Southeast Asia become more animistic alongside contemporary voodoo objects and utensils Religions on display.

Ethnographic exhibits from four subject areas are presented to the public:

Collections

The Chesi Collection of the City of Schwaz, the Schell Collection and the Lindner Collection are currently on display in the Museum der Völker. The photographic work of Gert Chesi runs through the exhibition space.

Special exhibitions

Special exhibitions are regularly held in two rooms. These show ethnographic collections and modern non-European art through to photographic works.

  • 2010: Treasures from the depot
  • 2010: Textile art from Africa
  • 2010: The Legacy of China
  • 2011: Fire and ore - blacksmiths and foundries in Africa
  • 2011: Africa's modernity as reflected in the generations
  • 2011: Living with your ancestors
  • 2011: Anniversary exhibition 15 years of the House of Nations
  • 2012: Magical fabrics - woven dreams - artistic textiles from Indonesia
  • 2013: Sangomas - traditional healers of South Africa, photographs by Peter Frank
  • 2013: Ghost masks from Thailand
  • 2013: Africa today!
  • 2014: Faces of Africa - photographs by Mario Marino
  • 2014: Sons and Daughters of the Wind - The Last Nomads of Africa, photographs by Mario Gerth
  • 2014: Art and magic in silver and silk - jewelry and textiles from Chinese hill tribe
  • 2014: Dogon, Art and Myth in collaboration with Jan Baptist Bedaux
  • 2015: Dancing shadows - puppets, puppets and masks from Asia
  • 2015: Burma - Masterpieces of Buddhism
  • 2015: Susanne Wenger - A life with the gods
  • 2015: The Magic of World Cultures - 20 years of the Museum of Nations
  • 2015: The memory of the stones - rare stone reliefs and figures from Asia
  • 2016: Evil - exhibits from black magic circles
  • 2016: India in pictures - photographs by Gert Chesi
  • 2016: Yoruba - masterpieces of an African high culture
  • 2016: Gladys - the painter and his ghosts - contemporary painting from Benin
  • 2016: The secret Cameroon - photographs by Henning Christoph
  • 2016: Africa in garb - Colorful textile diversity on a continent
  • 2016/2017: Indonesia - Art and Cult from the Island Empire
  • 2016/2017: Bali - Island of the Gods
  • 09.09.2017 - 11.03.2018: Leon Pollux "People"
  • 03/17/2018: Make it unforgettable
  • 05.05.2018 - 18.11.2018: Maasai - builders from Ololosokwan
  • 22.06.2018 - 18.11.2018 : school project and exhibition " My, your, our room"

Exhibitions and guided tours in cooperation

  • Child and ritual , SOS Children's Villages , Hermann Gmeiner Academy, ubuntu
  • Themed tour Common world instead of lonely worlds , project in cooperation with the state of Tyrol, which is aimed at schools to discuss refugee developments and to provide important awareness and educational work among young people in the search for solutions to migration issues.
  • African textiles - Strengthening the public perception of an African product with a long tradition of unifying people and high development potential , SOS Children's Village Benin, State of Tyrol

Documentaries

In-house documentary film productions have been shown in a video room since 2013.

  • Indonesia-Batak, Toraja, Sumba 2016. The film deals with the Batak on Sumatra, with the Toraja on Sulawesi and with the indigenous people of the same name on Sumba.
  • Buddha in Bad Society 2016. Whoever enters the world of lived Buddhism should have no illusions. Here we come across strange practices involving money and power. Gautama's teaching is often reinterpreted or reinterpreted.
  • Chinatown - Bangkok 2016. On the way in dark side streets and lively markets, in the Chinese temples and at dragon parades, pictures of captivating beauty presented themselves. “Chinatown Bangkok” is a documentary that presents the life and goings-on in a district and its residents in 60 minutes.
  • The Voodoo Diary 2015. The Voodoo Diary shows loosely strung together scenes that tell the story of a religion that leaves its mark well into profane life. Conversations with priests and kings, sacrificial acts and ancestral cults, but also the big annual festivals are topics of this documentation.
  • Royal cities of Asia - Laos / Vietnam / Cambodia 2015. Using the example of three Asian royal cities, this documentation shows how different cultures develop when claims to power and religious aspects guide the people.
  • Buddha's disobedient children - Part 3 2015. This film deals with the magical dolls, the Kuman Thons, the rockets of Yassothon or the tiger temple, which is constantly in criticism.
  • Imperial cities of Asia - Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia 2015. Using the example of three Asian royal cities, this documentation shows how different cultures develop when claims to power and religious aspects guide the people. Wars and changing religions brought destruction, but they were also the engine that drove the establishment of cities and the construction of temples. Angkor, Luang Prabang and Hué were centers of power in ancient times.
  • Gert Chesi 2017, founder of the Museum of the Nations
    The Medicine of the Black Gods - Magic and Healing Art of Africa Part 2 2015. African healing methods are deeply anchored in the autochthonous cultures to this day. In addition to the herbal and mineral medicines, the religious aspects play an important role. They make use of a heavily populated heaven of gods whose spirits are invoked.
  • The Medicine of the Black Gods - Magic and Healing Art of Africa Part 1 2015. The film shows African healing methods that are deeply anchored in autochthonous cultures to this day. In addition to the herbal and mineral medicines, the religious aspects play an important role. They make use of a heavily populated heaven of gods whose spirits are invoked.
  • Ethiopia - A journey through time in 2015. In southern Ethiopia, people are on the threshold of a change that threatens ancient cultures and traditions. The present film is an inventory that deals with dying cultures.
  • Burma - Buddha's heirs 2015
  • Dancing Shadows - Puppet Theater in Thailand 2015
  • Buddha's splendor and misery 2015
  • The Song of the Road - Part 2 2015
  • Buddha's Disobedient Children - Part 2 2014
  • The Song of the Road - Part 1 2014
  • Alice Mettler - My Life in Africa 2014
  • Life and Death in Bali 2014
  • Miao - A People in Transition 2014
  • Made in Africa (2014). The film shows craftsmen whose professions are still within the traditions. They are weavers, foundries and potters who produce for the local market. Their techniques are centuries old and can only be found in a few regions of West Africa. Imports from China and Europe have forced many to give up, but the peculiarities of local customer requests have also allowed companies to survive that have been using old methods to ensure their survival to this day.
  • Buddha's Disobedient Children Part 1 2014
  • Voodoo - Magician of the Earth (2013). This documentation shows the development of voodoo from the time of slavery to the present and builds on the experiences that Gert Chesi has gained in West Africa over the last 40 years. The recordings come from temples and cult sites in Togo, Ghana and Benin. They focus on priests, kings and healers.
  • Togo in Dance (2013) Each of the forty-two ethnic groups of Togo has its own dances, all of which come from the depths of African tradition.
  • Mask cults in Kerala / India 2013
  • The Story of the Ning (2013) This film is about a Thai boy who wanted to be a woman. The stations on the way to this goal were documented and commented on by Gert Chesi.

A4 magazine

The Haus der Völker publishing house, which belongs to the museum, is the publisher of the first German-language magazine to deal with non-European art and culture ( ISSN  1817-2091 ). The title of A4 magazine refers to the four continents, Australia, Asia, Africa and America. The editors-in-chief are Gerhard Merzeder and Gert Chesi.

Images of man

In 2013, the in-house publisher published the book People Images from Other Worlds . This photo series was published as an exhibition project in 45 large-format photographs (85 × 125 cm) and is accompanied by an illustrated book that describes the project and the people who modeled it with explanatory texts.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Museum der Völker, Schwaz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper August 23, 2008
  2. ^ DiePresse April 15, 2013
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau August 23, 2008
  4. ↑ ORF April 12, 2013
  5. ^ Kultur Tirol, accessed August 19, 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Kultur Tirol, accessed August 19, 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Kultur Tirol, accessed August 19, 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Kultur Tirol, accessed August 19, 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Kultur Tirol, accessed August 19, 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Tirol Info, accessed August 19, 2014
  11. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper January 24, 2012
  12. ^ Kultur Tirol, accessed August 19, 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ^ Kultur Tirol, accessed August 19, 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ^ Tiroler Bezirksblätter Schwaz March 2014
  15. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper August 4, 2014
  16. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper May 26, 2014
  17. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper October 21, 2014
  18. ↑ District Gazette February 7, 2015
  19. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper April 20, 2015
  20. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper June 17, 2015
  21. ↑ District Gazette August 13, 2015
  22. ↑ District Gazette November 7, 2015
  23. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper January 18, 2016
  24. ↑ district sheets March 9, 2016
  25. ^ Museum of the Peoples May 7, 2016
  26. ↑ district sheets June 26, 2016
  27. ↑ District Gazette September 3, 2016
  28. ↑ District Gazette September 16, 2016
  29. ^ SOS Children's Village Hermann Gmeiner Academy June 12, 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  30. ^ Ordinance sheet of the regional school council for Tyrol
  31. ↑ Land Tirol Development Cooperation 2016 ( Memento from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  32. ↑ Made in Africa trailer at: vimeo.com
  33. ^ Tiroler Bezirksblätter, May 15, 2014
  34. ^ Tiroler Bezirksblätter 15 July 2014
  35. ↑ Voodoo - Magician of the Earth. Trailer on: vimeo.com
  36. ^ Tiroler Bezirksblätter June 17, 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  37. ↑ Togo in the Dance Trailer at: vimeo.com
  38. ^ Tiroler Bezirksblätter September 25, 2014
  39. ↑ The History of the Ning Trailer at: vimeo.com
  40. ^ Tiroler Bezirksblätter 5 February 2012
  41. ↑ List of Tyrol Museum Awards as of 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  42. ↑ Acknowledgment Prize Austria 1999 ( Memento from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  43. ↑ Austrian Museum Seal of Approval 2014

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