More worth your time at the same venue, plus a few nearby picks.
EXHIBITIONS
The Giant Mechanical Nativity Scene from the Ore Mountains
One of the highlights of the permanent exhibition at the Museum Europäischer Kulturen is the mechanical ‘Weihnachtsberg’, a giant nativity scene set in a hillside town that was fabricated in the 19th century in the Ore Mountains, near the border of Germany and the Czech…
EXHIBITIONS
Flechtwerke
Braiding is a craft practiced worldwide that has not yet been mastered by any machine. The interactive exhibition combines experience, knowledge, innovation and stories about braiding. Who braids? With what? Why?
WORKSHOPS
Open workshop: braiding
n addition to your hands, you need patience for braiding. A wide variety of materials, tools and instructions are available in the workshop. Try it!
EXHIBITIONS
ALL HANDS ON: Basketry
Basketry is a cultural technique that is thousands of years old, practised worldwide, regionally distinctive and still a handicraft in the truest sense of the word. Humans alone have mastered the complex weaving method, with no machine capable of replacing their artisanship.
SCULPTURE
Muslim InVisibilities: Creating Relationships. Intervention
Muslim life has been part of European everyday cultures for centuries. But is this also reflected by the artefacts in MEK's collection? What are these objects? What do they tell us about the people who made and used them?
FESTIVALS
The Applied Arts of the Brücke Artists
The applied arts of the Brücke have been little studied and exhibited to this date. This is all the more surprising given that Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Emil Nolde spent their lives designing furniture, jewelry and carpets in addition to their paintings…
FESTIVALS
Vita & Virginia
Love at first sight and until death do us part. Love across the distance as well as up close, separations, jealousy, longing, friendship. Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West met in London in 1921.
FESTIVALS
Rey Akdogan. Carousels
Rey Akdogan (Heilbronn, Cologne, lives and works in New York) focuses her attention on the standardization of materials and perceptual processes that shape the visual present.
