Rüttihubelbad
The Rüttihubelbad is an anthroposophical social, cultural and conference center in the municipality of Walkringen in the canton of Bern , Switzerland .
location
It is located on the Rüttihubel between Worb and Walkringen on the edge of the Emmental on a hill above Enggistein, about twelve kilometers from Bern . In 1756 Peter Schüpbach built the first farmhouse here. 27 years later, the pharmacist Benteli analyzed an iron mineral spring , officially certified it and thereby laid the foundation for a bathing culture that lasted around two hundred years. The "healing" water and the rich cuisine made the Rüttihubelbad known far beyond the regional borders.
business
In 1986 the "Stiftung Rüttihubelbad" bought the bankrupt restaurant and built the hamlet that exists today with ten buildings on the Rüttihubel, which includes the following areas:
- Hotel and restaurant
- Retirement and nursing home
- Social-therapeutic community (dormitory for mentally handicapped people, dormitory for people with mental impairment, protective workshops & employment)
- culture and education
- the sensorium in the Rüttihubelbad, a permanent educational experience exhibition on the “experience field of the senses ” based on ideas by Hugo Kükelhaus
Sensorium
The Sensorium is an interactive museum that is dedicated to the world of the senses and is based on the experience exhibition “ Field of experience for the development of the senses ” designed by Hugo Kükelhaus .
Field of experience for the senses
Using various stations, visitors discover "the laws of nature on the outside, but also in their own organism". The focus is on the human senses and the use of all their possibilities.
Permanent exhibition
According to Kükelhaus, the increasingly monotonous environment, which no longer gives the senses anything to do, and a simultaneous overload of stimuli that only overwhelm certain senses such as sight and hearing, increasingly prevent a differentiated perceptual ability and promote its degradation. This leaves less and less room for basic physical experience and development opportunities. Kükelhaus sees this as having serious consequences for human behavior in all its relationships - to oneself, to fellow human beings, to nature and technology.
There are around 70 stations in the sensorium to activate sensual perception. Rotating disks show optical phenomena, a scent tree presents different smells, stones, woods and gongs let you feel tones and their vibrations, a partner swing lets you experience active togetherness. According to Hugo Kükelhaus, people experience "how the eye sees, the ear hears, the nose smells, the skin feels, the fingers feel, the foot understands, the hand understands, the brain thinks, the lungs breathes, the blood pulses, the body vibrates ».
Annual exhibitions
The Sensorium invites you to a new temporary exhibition every year.
- 2014: The water: Experience the beauty and the phenomena of the element water.
- 2015: Bees make sense: Get to know the tasks of a bee and their connection to the senses.
- 2016: Labyrinth - Experience the way: branches, dead ends and wrong ways. Find the common thread and don't lose it.
- 2017: Play of forces: Playful and physical experiences with the topics of force and energy are the focus.
Sensonero
Sensonero is a gastronomic experience in the Sensorium. Visitors can eat a three-course menu in the dark, guided by the four senses and by blind and visually impaired employees of the Rüttihubelbad.
Web links
- Website of the Rüttihubelbad
- Sensorium website
- Rüttihubelbad Signature ES 320-327 in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Kükelhaus Foundation - About Hugo Kükelhaus. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
- ^ Foundation Rüttihubelbad Hugo Kükelhaus. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Foundation Rüttihubelbad permanent exhibition. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Foundation Rüttihubelbad Sensonero. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 23 " N , 7 ° 35 ′ 52" E ; CH1903: six hundred and twelve thousand one hundred and twenty-seven / 198747