Annual Report 2010 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

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There was a wide-ranging programme
accompanying the opening of the Türckische
Cammer: a turner demonstrated his craft …
tAKI nG StoCK I n 2010 –
MuSeuM eDuCAtIon
… and in the Kunstbibliothek a reading
by Dede Korkut took place
The Museum Education department of the Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden can look back on a successful
and eventful anniversary year. By providing various thematic
programmes, the department was able to meet its
expectations with regard to education at the same time
as making a visit to the museums a memorable and special
experience for all guests, particularly children and
teenagers.
The opening of the Türckische Cammer was celebrated
with an extremely varied programme of events: special
guided tours for families, concerts played on traditional
instruments, a theatrical performance of a Persian fairy
tale and readings in German and Turkish in the Kunstbibliothek
alternated with workshops on Turkish music, regional
and cultural studies relating to the Ottoman Empire
and textile design with exotic and oriental style elements.
Of course, people from Turkey and with Turkish ancestry
were also invited to these events. Numerous guests, especially
from Berlin, took up this invitation.
There was also a wide­ranging accompanying programme
of events in connection with the Anniversary Exhibition
“Zukunft seit 1560”. Daily ‘art breaks’ and walking tours,
workshop courses, special guided tours and events for
senior citizens targeted a wide audience; in the school
summer holidays, there were workshops for school students.
The core of the educational programme was the
school students took part in a project in the
Gemäldegalerie alte Meister “auf junge arT”
museum laboratory. There, successive workshops took
place in an experimental laboratory where participants
could investigate 450 years of museum history. A special
highlight was the International Youth Congress entitled
“Culture! My future” which took place in the Residenzschloss
from 13th to 17th April, 2010.
On International Children’s Day on 1st June, 2010, the
Residenzschloss opened its doors only to children and
adolescents. They were invited to explore the Anniversary
Exhibition, the Grünes Gewölbe and the Türckische Cammer,
as well as the Hausmannsturm. The young guests got
a close­up view of the works of art and were able to use
the knowledge they had gained in the museums as the
basis for creative activities in workshops – for Kindergarten
children this was done in a very playful way, whereas
for adolescents there were interdisciplinary learning stations.
The wide­ranging programme made this International
Children’s Day into a truly special event for 1,577
children.
A year before the opening of the Albertinum as a museum
of modernity, the project “Lernort Albertinum” (Learning in
the Albertinum) was launched in association with students
of Art Education at the Technische Universität Dresden. A
broad range of interdisciplinary learning modules were developed
on curriculum­specific themes, each of which was
combined with a practical section. Furthermore, works of
art could also be understood and discussed with reference
to different aspects of life, such as the family, fashion, city
life or travel, or in relation to political issues such as violence,
liberty, authority and the representation of power.