2008 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Visitors to the exhibition “Baustelle Heimat”
(The Building Site called Home)
0 “Ein stück museum – für sie und für die staatlichen
kunstsammlungen Dresden” (A bit of museum – for you
and for the Dresden state Art Collections) …
… This is the slogan that turns a product bought from the
collection of the MSU Museumsladen GmbH into a donation.
On 9th April 2008 the managing director of the
company, Maria Krusche, handed over a cheque for 12,000
Euro to Director-General Prof. Dr. Martin Roth at the Art &
Info Visitor Centre. By purchasing an article from the wide
range of souvenirs on offer relating to the individual museums
– whether it be a pencil with a golden crown or an
umbrella featuring the cherubs from the Sistine Madonna
– every customer takes a bit of museum home and thus
helps boost the profits of the company, which in turn
benefits the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
general meeting of the Numismatic Commission of the
Federal states in the Federal Republic of germany
On 18th April 2008 the General Meeting of the Numismatic
Commission of the Federal States in the Federal
Republic of Germany took place in Dresden. The meeting
was organised by the Münzkabinett. As a scientific organisation
of the federal states, the Commission endeavours
to foster and develop the history of coins and currency
and to promote research on medals in Germany.
baustelle heimat – An exhibition to mark the centenary
of the Landesverein sächsischer heimatschutz
The Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst transformed its
rooms into a bustling building site on which the concept
of Heimat (‘home’ or ‘homeland’) was investigated, illuminated
and discussed from every possible perspective. A
Dr. Thomas de Maizière, Head of the Office of the Federal Chancellor and Federal Minister
for Special Assignments, welcomes members of staff from the administration department
of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden to the Office of the Federal Chancellor
path led along a pink building site fence through colourful
rooms full of associations which evoked memories and
thoughts – from the images of home imprinted on our
minds during childhood to ideas about the relationship
between our homeland and the outside world and questions
about the integration and exclusion of other people.
Questions were also raised about tradition versus modern
trends, about consumption versus conservation, and even
about the extremes as regards the emotive content of the
concept. In books and on the building site fence itself,
visitors wrote statements which were then commented
on by those who followed them. This lively communication
was the true content of the exhibition, even though it
appeared primarily to be about the production of houses
and urban growth.
minister in the Office of the Federal Chancellor receives
the staff of the administrative department
The administrative department’s staff outing was to Berlin
on 16th October 2008. In the morning they visited the
Office of the Federal Chancellor and were given a guided
tour focusing on architecture and art. To their great surprise,
they were invited to have their photograph taken
with the Head of the Office of the Federal Chancellor,
Federal Minister Dr. Thomas de Maizière, on the floor where
the Federal Chancellor’s personal office is located.
The staff then divided up and either visited the Egyptian
Museum, took part in a behind-the-scenes guided tour of
the Bode Museum or looked at the exhibition “Kult des
Künstlers: BEUYS. Die Revolution sind wir” (Cult of the
Artist: BEUYS – We ave the Revolution) at the Hamburger
Bahnhof museum.