Network museums

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Network museums
logo Logo Network Museums.jpg
definition Association of museums from Germany, France and Switzerland
target simultaneous exhibitions on a common theme
begin 2012
Theme 2014 First World War
Number of partners 36
Project management Markus Moehring
Office Dreiländermuseum
Website http://www.netzwerk-museen.eu

The Museums Network is an association of museums from Germany, France and Switzerland.

initial situation

With the exhibition "After the War / Après la Guerre" from 1995, the trinational cooperation of museums began in the southern Upper Rhine for the first time. The German-Swiss-French project addressed the end of the war and the post-war period in the southern Upper Rhine 50 years after the end of the Second World War . The exhibitions of the participating museums: Dreiländermuseum Lörrach (Germany); former name: Museum am Burghof, Museum.BL (Switzerland); Name at that time: Canton Museum Baselland and Musée Historique Mulhouse (France) took place at the same time. The cooperation extended to the conception, supporting program and public relations of the exhibitions. There was a joint catalog and a joint exhibition poster for the 3 exhibitions. Over the years 4 further exhibition series followed:

  • Revolution 1848/49 - Nationality Separates, Freedom Unites (1998)
  • Crazy Regio: Fasnacht - Fasnet - Carnaval (2004)
  • Mythical places on the Upper Rhine (2007)
  • The Upper Rhine around 1900 (2009)

Idea and goal

The basic idea of ​​the network is to use the possibilities of cross-border museum cooperation in order to present history in a transnational context. In order to ensure continuous cooperation between museums from France, Germany and Switzerland and to enable constant and flexible cooperation that brings together changing museums on a project basis, the Museums Network was founded by the Dreiländermuseum Lörrach in 2012. The Dreiländermuseum itself has a cross-border permanent exhibition and had already played a leading role in all cross-border projects. Funding from the European Union made it possible to expand the network to the entire Upper Rhine area. The network museums therefore also became an essential part of the INTERREG project B 34 with the project title "Dreiländermuseum - trinational network for history and culture" of the Dreiländermuseum Lörrach. The aim of the network is to design cross-border exhibition series every 3 to 4 years on a superordinate thematic focus and to use synergy effects in the area of ​​collection and public relations. With the network museums an instrument was created that brings broad sections of the population closer to the past and present of the region on the Upper Rhine and is intended to encourage the people of the region to visit exhibitions on a thematic focus both in their own country and in the respective neighboring countries.

organization

Logo Network Museums 2014
Organization chart network museums

The MUSEUMS-PASS-MUSÉES office and the Dreiländermuseum Lörrach initiate workshops for the participating museums every three years. The first kick-off working meeting took place on March 8, 2013. The museums only bind themselves to the network for one exhibition project. The composition of the workshops can change every 3 years depending on the exhibition theme. Every 4 years the participating museums present a series of cross-border exhibitions. Every 6 months, the museums meet for a full-day working session. In addition to the exhibition concepts, topics such as cross-border museum education, accompanying events, public relations and cooperation with external institutions are also on the agenda. The network is coordinated and organized by the Dreiländermuseum in Lörrach. A trinational committee determined by the museums involved was set up for decisions that have to be made in the meantime. It consists of a representative of the museums per country and the head of the network's office. In order to be publicly perceived, a logo was developed and a website created. Since the cooperation between the museums is project-related, the logo is given the year of the current project. The basis of the cooperation of the network is the equality of all partner museums regardless of the size of the museum, national affiliation or financial resources. Each museum determines the intensity of the collaboration.

Exhibition series on the First World War

The first exhibition series of the network in 2014 is dedicated to the topic of "First World War on the Upper Rhine". The participating museums from Germany, France and Switzerland deal with the First World War on the Upper Rhine from a national, local or thematic perspective in 35 exhibitions . The brochure "THE FIRST WORLD WAR ON THE UPPER RHINE" gives an overview of all exhibitions. This makes the Museums Network the largest cross-border project in the museum sector to date.

Network project in 2018/2019: the turning point of 1918/19

The second project of the network museums is a joint exhibition series under the title "Zeitwende 1918/19". From mid-2018, this will be devoted to the political, economic, social and cultural situation in Germany, France and Switzerland in the years after the First World War.

The core area of ​​the network is again the Upper Rhine area, but museums in neighboring regions are also involved. 30 museums between Strasbourg, Bern and Stuttgart present the largest cross-border exhibition network in a European region at the turn of the century 1918/19. The exhibition in the Dreiländermuseum, which the network is again coordinating, provides an overview. The exhibitions of the network partners illuminate time from a national, regional or thematic perspective.

Participating museums and institutions 2018/19

Participating museums and institutions in 2014

Exhibition venues 2014 on the First World War

Germany

France

  • Archives Départementales du Haut Rhin, Colmar in cooperation with the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe
  • Archives et Musée Historique, Strasbourg
  • Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, Strasbourg
  • Écomusée d'Alsace, Ungersheim
  • Fort de Mutzig - feasts of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mutzig
  • Hartmannswillerkopf, Hartmannswiller
  • Le Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse
  • Mémorial du Linge, Orbey
  • Musée Archéologique, Strasbourg
  • Musée Historique, Mulhouse
  • Serret Museum, Saint-Amarin
  • Sundgauvien Museum, Altkirch

Switzerland

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "After the war / Après la guerre" , website of the Dreiländermuseum. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
  2. ^ "Revolution 1848/49 - Nationality separates, freedom connects" , website of the Dreiländermuseum. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Verrückte Regio: Fasnacht - Fasnet - Carnaval" , website of the three-country museum. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
  4. ^ "Mythical Places on the Upper Rhine" , website of the Dreiländermuseum. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
  5. ^ "The Upper Rhine around 1900" , website of the three-country museum. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ "INTERREG IV Oberrhein" ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the INTERREG IV Upper Rhine funding program. Retrieved June 26, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.interreg-oberrhein.eu
  7. ↑ "Trinational Network for History and Culture" ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the INTERREG IV Upper Rhine funding program, Project B 34 - Dreiländermuseum - Trinational Network for History and Culture (pdf), accessed on June 26, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.interreg-oberrhein.eu
  8. ^ Markus Moehring: The Dreiländermuseum and the trinational networks on the Upper Rhine. In: Museum Studies. Vol. 78, 2013, pp. 47-49.
  9. ↑ Large cultural project "Dreiländermuseum - trinational network for history and culture starts on the Upper Rhine" , website REGIO TRENDS - the internet newspaper for Strasbourg - Freiburg - Basel - Black Forest. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  10. ^ Markus Moehring: The Dreiländermuseum and the trinational networks on the Upper Rhine. In: Museum Studies. Vol. 78, 2013, p. 50.
  11. ^ "The First World War - the torn region" , brochure for the exhibition, website of the Dreiländermuseum. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  12. ^ "How the Great War changed everything - The Museum Network - a trinational project for international understanding" , SWR website. Retrieved June 28, 2014
  13. ↑ Historial franco-allemand de la Grande Guerre au Hartmannswillerkopf