Museum suitcase

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Picture of the museum case project at the University of Paderborn

Museum suitcases are transportable didactic teaching media that are intended to clearly present and convey representative objects on a specific cultural heritage theme in the compact collection space of the suitcase. In most cases, museum cases are unique items made by institutions, teachers, students and school classes.

description

Museum cases are didactic media in which various classic functions of the museum are “condensed”, such as collecting and preserving, archiving, documenting, conveying (exhibiting) and forming. For this reason, the term “miniature museums” is also used. These are transportable didactic media that vividly present and convey representative objects on a specific cultural heritage topic in the compressed collection space of the suitcase.

In most cases, museum cases are unique items made by institutions, teachers, students and school classes. Museum cases are therefore very suitable as a teaching medium, as they stimulate research questions, promote creative development and can be adapted to different age or ethnic groups with different learning levels.

history

The first museum cases can already be seen in the ornate boxes and shrines in which the kings of the Merovingian and Carolingian times transported their most important possessions and treasures or relics on their travels. Further design information can be found in the discussion of the Kunst- und Wunderkammer. In the early modern period, a growing collection of curiosities, exotic objects and realities developed in Europe, which were presented there as collections. They not only served curiosity, but also for scientific studies and a lively research exchange. Even at this time, transportable collection cabinets and boxes were used for information and teaching purposes. Storage and packaging containers are also linked to the history of the museum suitcase. For example, splendid porcelain services were packed in elaborate boxes to equip the European royal courts. Painted boxes, on the other hand, were part of the inventory of peasant rooms and later became popular souvenirs.

The history of the museum suitcase is also linked to the cultural history of the travel suitcase, which leads, among other things, into the areas of emigration (e.g. emigration to America in the 19th century), the lives of servants and also of commercial travelers.

From 2002 to 2019, a teaching and research project on "Museum suitcases and cultural heritage" was carried out at the University of Paderborn at the chair of Jutta Ströter-Bender at the Institute for Art. The project is primarily concerned with the mediation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and World Heritage Education and designs corresponding suitcases in the courses that can serve as preparatory museum educational teaching material. As “museums in miniature”, the museum cases offer the opportunity to convey cultural heritage and, thanks to their mobility, can be used in all educational institutions, museums and schools. Since 2018, the museum case project has undergone further development in cooperation with IRAND (International Research and Archives Network Historical Children’s and Youth Drawings) and is used internationally in the context of the communication of historical children and youth drawings under the title "Telling histories of child art" .

literature

  • Hans Joachim Gach: History on the move. Historical learning with museum suitcases . Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts, 2005
  • Jutta Ströter-Bender: Museum suitcase and intercultural communication . In: I just wanted out: Intercultural dialogue - yesterday and today. Experience. Perspectives. Reflections . (= Materials / Thuringian Institute for Teacher Training, Curriculum Development and Media, 140), Schirmer, Weimar, 2008, pp. 68–69
  • Johanna Tewes: Museum suitcase and art class . In: World Heritage and Arts Education . Internet magazine vol. 1. H. 1, 2008, pp. 23–31 ( https://stroeter-art-research.de/world-heritage-and-arts-education )
  • Jutta Ströter-Bender (Ed.): Museum suitcase, material and idea boxes. Projects for collecting, exploring, exhibiting and designing for art classes at primary level, lower secondary level and museum education . Tectum, Marburg, 2009
  • Jutta Ströter-Bender (Ed.): World Heritage Education: Positions and Discourses on the Mediation of the UNESCO World Heritage . Marburg: Tectum Verlag, Marburg, 2010
  • Johanna Tewes: Paderborn-Essen-Paris. Out and about with the museum suitcases: Stations of a successful project . In: World Heritage and Arts Education . Internet magazine vol. 2. H. 2, 2010, pp. 46–52 ( https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/fach-kunst/kunst-und-ihre-didaktik-malerei/internetzeitschrift-world-heritage-arts -education / )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jutta Ströter-Bender: Museum suitcase, material and idea boxes. Projects for collecting, exploring, exhibiting and designing for art classes at primary level, lower secondary level and museum education. Tectum Verlag, Marburg, 2009, p. 9
  2. ↑ Jutta Ströter-Bender: Museum suitcase, material and idea boxes. Projects for collecting, exploring, exhibiting and designing for art classes at primary level, lower secondary level and museum education. Tectum Verlag, Marburg, 2009, p. 9
  3. ↑ Jutta Ströter-Bender: Museum suitcase, material and idea boxes. Projects for collecting, exploring, exhibiting and designing for art classes at primary level, lower secondary level and museum education. Tectum Verlag, Marburg, 2009, pp. 10-12
  4. ↑ Duration of the teaching and research project on "Museum Suitcases and Cultural Heritage". Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Museum suitcase. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ International Research and Archives Network for Historical Children's and Youth Drawings - Mediation. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ . Museum in a coffer - Telling Histories of Child Art Accessed on June 29, 2020 .