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VIsitors in the exhibition WORLDS IN MOTION at the Weltkulturen Museum
Events and Workshops
The Weltkulturen Museum offers various events and workshops for young people and adults.
The workshops mentioned here can only be booked as a group. Please contact .
- Workshop based on current exhibitions
Making Comics Sound
Pow! Splash! Boink! – How do comics speak to us and what sounds do we imagine when reading them? In the exhibition ‘SHEROES. Comic Art from Africa,’ we learn about the meaning and contexts of comics and works of art. Afterwards, we experiment with different sound effects and add sound to selected comics to make the visual stories loud and lively. Duration: 2 hours, cost €6 per person.
The format is adapted to the age group.
Maps that tell more
There are places that are of great personal significance to us. This is also true for the comic artists in the exhibition ‘SHEROES. Comic Art from Africa’. After exploring the exhibition, we consider which places these are for us and how we can make them visible. What does a place need for us to feel comfortable? How do we navigate boundaries or forbidden paths? What changes when we stay in a place or have to leave it? Together, we create maps to record the special meanings and our knowledge of an area.
Duration: 2.5 hours. Cost: €7.50 per person.
Talking about everything with comics?
In this workshop, participants explore the exhibition ‘SHEROES. Comic Art from Africa’. The focus is on topics such as colonialism and power in connection with knowledge, historiography and memory culture. Participants will note down their initial observations and questions in connection with the works in the exhibition, which we will explore in more depth in discussions. They will record their findings in homemade comic zines, which can then be reproduced and distributed.
Duration: 2.5 hours, cost €7.50 per person person. - Workshop with visit to the storage facilities
What is this doing here?
How and under what circumstances did objects such as a ceremonial shield from present-day Kenya or a comb from present-day Cameroon find their way into the Weltkulturen Museum? In the workshop ‘What is it doing here?’, participants critically examine the origins and acquisition histories of individual objects in the museum's collection that are intertwined with Germany's colonial history. They discuss the significance of provenance and restitution and develop a possible stance on the issue.
Duration: 2 hours, cost: €6 per person
Maps that tell more
There are places that are of great personal significance to us. This is also true for the comic artists featured in the exhibition ‘SHEROES. Comic Art from Africa’. After exploring the exhibition, we will consider which places are important to us and how we can make them visible. What does a place need to make us feel comfortable? How do we navigate boundaries or forbidden paths? What changes when we stay in a place or have to leave it? Together, we will create maps to record the special meanings and our knowledge of an area.
Duration: 2.5 hours. Cost: €7.50 per person. - Workshop based on the Film and Image Archive
Störbilder (Disturbing Images)
The workshop invites young people to take a look at the image archive of the museum. About 100.000 photos and 550 anthropological films are stored in the archive. What is the logic behind an archive? Which material is stored here? By looking at historical images from the archive we try to analyse colonial patterns and question the continuities in today’s racist imagery, in publicity, and the media. The workshop reflects power relations between the photographer and the photographed and challenges the way we perceive images.
Duration: 3 hours - Workshop with a simple language
Nature, Culture, Architecture
Wanderwege (Travel Routes)
The objects in the Weltkulturen Museum all come from “migration backgrounds”. The museum’s history stretches back over one hundred years – and over that time, thousands of objects from different centuries have been collected from the Americas, Africa, South-east Asia and Oceania and brought to Frankfurt. What routes did they take? What is so special about them? And why are they now in a museum? With our hands-on collection and a tour through the museum’s current special exhibition, we discover more about everyday objects, art works and notions of culture. In this process, the aim is always to connect one’s own everyday life and the objects in the museum. At the end of the tour, ideas and insights are expressed in a creative form.
“Travel Routes” is customised for the particular groups of participants.
Duration: 2.5 hours, free of charge.
This non-profit educational project is specifically designed for visitors who have as yet had little or no opportunity to take part in cultural activities.
This activity can be booked as a group. The “Nature, Culture, Architecture” programme is available at the Welkulturen Museum, the Senckenberg Natural History Museum and the DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum.
The programme is a cooperative project by the Weltkulturen Museum, Senckenberg Natural History Museum and DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum. Our thanks go to the Department of Cultural Affairs of the city of Frankfurt for generously funding this project.
