Museum@goethe

Arts and Cultural Management © Goethe-Institut/Loredana La Rocca

Innovation, flexibility, participation, future viability – Museum work and the role of museums as social actors are increasingly in the focus of interest. In this area the Goethe-Institut is incorporating new perspectives on cultural education and international cooperation into a variety of projects.

Current projects

Cultural Heritage

Practicing Freedom – Regarding Decoloniality and the Afterlife of Cultural Heritage Objects

Practicing Freedom is a transcultural research and artistic project which aims to harness ongoing conversations and initiatives within the overriding concepts of decoloniality and restitution.

Final Reste Supreme Museum Performance © Alun Be © Alun Be

Art education, intergenerative Learning

Across Generations – Learning from Art, Culture, and One Another

What potential do museums offer to intergenerational and heterogeneous visitor groups? The Across Generations project takes the dialogue between generations as its starting point, develops new methods for educational work at museums and contributes to the necessary diversification and inclusivity of cultural institutions.

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens © Anna Primou © Anna Primou

Training courses and residencies

Capacity building

SAWA Museum Academy

The SAWA Museum Academy is the first consistent transcultural capacity building programme for career starters at museums in Arab-speaking countries and Germany.

SAWA Museum Academy © Martina Kopp © Martina Kopp

Distance learning degree course

Arts and Cultural Management (M.A.)

The professional distance learning degree in Arts and Cultural Management, which is delivered in English, is aimed at cultural experts worldwide.

Master Arts and Cultural Management Photo: Goethe-Institut/Loredana La Rocca Photo: Goethe-Institut/Loredana La Rocca

Residency programme

London: Goethe V&A residency

Every two years, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and the Goethe-Institut London welcome an artist to their residency programme to work with the V&A’s collection investigating a particular theme.

Jumper (Scribble) © Victoria and Albert Museum, London © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Museum education

Georgia: Learning German in the museum

The Goethe-Institut Georgia has developed content packages for children and young adults in cooperation with the Georgian National Museum, which can be used to teach German in the museum.

Learning German in the museum Photo: Goethe-Institut Georgien Photo: Goethe-Institut Georgien

Training programme

APIK – organising an exhibition in Indonesia

How do I organise an exhibition? What do I have to consider? The APIK training programme prepares exhibition makers from Indonesia for the challenges encountered in this profession.

APIK © Goethe-Institut Indonesien © Goethe-Institut Indonesien

Themes and discourses

Practicing Freedom

The Afterlives of Objects

With a series of events entitled The Afterlives of Objects we seek to inquire and interrogate publicly with and among different stakeholders, communities, artists and activist initiatives about the possibility of redress and awareness.

Practicing Freedom – The Afterlives of Objects © Michelle Eistrup: Ntanga Zuzu (All Suns Forever), Opening in Huts | 2019 © Michelle Eistrup: Ntanga Zuzu (All Suns Forever), Opening in Huts | 2019

International Inventories Programme

Database is online!

With the opening of the exhibition “Invisible Inventories” at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne that database of the International Inventories Programme (IIP) will be launched.

“Invisible Inventories”, Installation, 2018 Photo: Shift Collective Photo: Shift Collective

Museum Conference Rio de Janeiro

REOPENING MUSEUMS: live on YouTube

Two years after the devastating fire at the Museu Nacional/UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro a digital panel discussion is focusing on the risks and opportunities of reopening museum during the pandemic.