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Concentrated reality

The diorama

25.02. - 26.02.2016

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Date

25.02. - 26.02.2016

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum

Meeting point

Zentralmagazin Naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Domplatz 4, 06108 Halle (Saale) (DE)

Costs

180 €, reduced price 150 € (The reduced fee is available to students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)

External registration

Please register via e-mail.

 

Contact

+43-664/8017-9537

museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

 

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About the
Event

Dioramas were already in use in museums of nature, technology, history and ethnology in the 19th century. For museum experts, they were an opportunity to create the illusion of reality and to display the objects in context. For visitors, they suggested a glimpse into past or distant worlds. Meanwhile, dioramas have become less relevant to the recent history of exhibition design due to the cost and effort of their production and their static nature. In this event, we raise the question of the future of this didactic medium: Have dioramas become things of the past, or do they still enable forms of visualization unachievable by other means? What can dioramas do that mise-en-scènes or films cannot? What possibilities are there for the technological development of the medium? We will take a look at the history of museums, analyse selected dioramas, and try our hand at building miniature dioramas.


with Zentralmagazin Naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen (ZNS) der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Verbindung mit dem Tieranatomischen Theater, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE).

With
Kai Füldner Director of the Natural History Museum in the Ottoneum and Kassel City Museum (DE)
Hans-Joachim Händel Taxidermist, Central Stack of Natural History Collections, University of Halle-Wittenberg (DE)
Anne Hölck Freelance scenographer and curator, Berlin (DE)
Jörn Köhler Curator for Zoology, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (DE)
Wilfried Matz Taxidermist, Rudolstadt (DE)
Michael Stache Taxidermist, Central Stack of Natural Science Collections, University of Halle-Wittenberg (DE)
Alexander Streitberger Professor of Art History, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (BE)
Manfred Verhaagh Head of Entomology Department, State Museum of Natural History, Karlsruhe (DE)

 

Organisers 
Michael Fehr Managing Director of the Werkbundarchiv – Museum of Things, Berlin (DE)
Frank D. Steinheimer Head of the Central Depot of the Natural Science Collections, University of Halle-Wittenberg (DE)