Museum in a suitcase

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The Nuremberg Children's Museum and the Mummpitz Theater are also located in the headquarters of the Museum im Koffer .

The Museum in a suitcase in Nuremberg was founded in 1980 as the first mobile children's museum in Germany. It has also been running the Nuremberg Children's and Youth Museum since 2001.

The museum in a suitcase is a pioneer of the children's museum movement in Germany. (Almost) everything can be touched and tried out in children's museums. The natural curiosity of the children promotes the desire and fun at work and they like to learn voluntarily. Topics come from history, nature, technology or life in other countries.

history

The Nuremberg Museum in a suitcase e. V. was founded in 1980 by the art educator Kristine Popp, who built a collection from the start, largely financed by private funds. Ms. Popp linked her passion for collecting with her educational interests. Taking into account the “ learning by doing ” principles of the Anglo-American role models, she structured the content and topics and began touring with “ great-grandmother's washing day ”. Since then, another topic has been added year after year. To this day, the museum has been traveling in a suitcase with two buses. When the museum in a suitcase succeeded in setting up a permanent house in 2001, the natural sciences were added to the historical and intercultural topics . The listed building by Theo Kief was converted in 2001 by the Nuremberg architects Niederwöhmeier + Kief . The second floor of the Children's and Youth Museum was expanded into an environmental learning station under the exhibition title: "Treasure Chamber Earth".

subjects

The traveling exhibitions:

  • Prehistory and Early History: Journey to the Stone Age
  • Antiquity: the life of the Celts, off to Rome!
  • Middle Ages: writing workshop, paper workshop, Gutenberg's printing workshop
  • Technology: space travel
  • Other countries and cultures: trip to an Anatolian village, trip to a village in Senegal , a day in the life of the Plains Indians, Indonesia, food cultures
  • Cultural history: cocoa and chocolate
  • Knowledge of nature: subtropia, soap bubbles

Exhibitions

Everyday life of the great grandparents

The washing day was completed with “Great-grandmother's kitchen”, “Uropas shop” and “Uropas bakery”. The whole complex of topics was set up as a permanent exhibition in the children's and youth museum for “Everyday life of great-grandparents”. The reason for this selection lay not only in the fact that the objects were easy to obtain, but above all in the fact that the contemporary witnesses can still be reached by the children, thus enabling direct and lively access to recent history. It is just as important that skills that have been lost can be tried out and that a comparison can be made between yesterday and today.

Treasury Earth

Another attraction in the Children's and Youth Museum is the permanent exhibition “Treasure Chamber Earth”, which condenses and links scientific and technical content. Basic ecological knowledge is intended to help children and adults to get help for environmentally friendly behavior in everyday life. Complex ecological basic principles such as diversity, networking and cycle are conveyed in manageable steps. A child-friendly research laboratory for observing and experimenting, terrariums and greenhouses with animals and plants, large, walk-in models and diverse visual material offer a wealth of experiences on various natural phenomena.

Awards

The museum in the case / Children's and Youth Museum Nuremberg received numerous regional and national awards, e. B. 1999 the Children's Culture Prize of the Children's Fund, was awarded the Subtropia project as a decade project by Unesco and has been an environmental station sponsored by the Free State of Bavaria since 2012.

literature

  • Michael Popp: "hands on". Children's museums in the USA, institutions and initiatives in Germany. Verlag Popp & Partner, Nuremberg 1993, p. 80.
  • Marie-Luise Braun, Ulrike Peters, Thomas Pyhel (eds.): Fascination exhibition, practical book for environmental exhibitions. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-361-00565-5 , pp. 141–156.
  • Klaus Bergmann, Rita Rohrbach (Hrsg.): Children discover history: Theory and practice of historical learning in elementary school and in early lessons. Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2001, ISBN 3-87920-748-8 , pp. 145-147.
  • Nel Worm: Hands on! Children and youth museum - cultural place with a future. LKD-Verlag, Unna 1994, ISBN 3-925426-70-1 .
  • Dagmar von Kathen, Wolfgang Zacharias (Hrsg.): Initiative children and youth museum - a new place of cultural education in the city. LKD-Verlag, Unna 1993, ISBN 3-925426-44-2 .
  • Susanne Gesser, Heike Kraft: Look-Compare-Try. Historical learning in children's and youth museums. Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach 2006, ISBN 3-89974-223-0 .
  • Hans Joachim Gach: History on the move. Historical learning with museum suitcases. Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach 2005, ISBN 3-89974-141-2 .

Web links

Commons : Kindermuseum Nürnberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ N + K Children's Culture Center. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .