Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ute Franz-Scarciglia
Spread over 700 square metres, the permanent exhibition 'Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe' is the first ever display of a cross-section of all the Museum of European Culture’s diverse collections. It examines discussions on social movements and social boundaries.
The mobility, physical and social contacts of people within Europe and to Europe sets off a chain of cultural interaction and intermingling that may give rise to the development of global cultures, while at the same time raising questions of belonging and the identity of individuals and whole groups. As a result of such globalization individuals may feel 'lost' and yearn for what is familiar to them: their home, their home town, a particular region or their country.
Do Europe's cultural commonalities play a role in this process? The permanent exhibition 'Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe' highlights a few examples of such shared cultural affinities, encapsulates several themes at once: trade, travel, visual media, migration, specific cultural localities and piety.
Museum Europäischer Kulturen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Museum Europäischer Kulturen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
The Museum of European Cultures (Museum Europäischer Kulturen) was called into being in 1999 and was created by merging the 110 year-old Museum of (German) Folklife (Museum für [Deutsche] Volkskunde) with the European collection of the Ethnological Museum. It focuses on lifeworlds in Europe and European cultural points of contact from the 18th century until today. Comprising some 275,000 original objects, the museum houses one of the largest European collections of everyday culture and popular art. The topics covered by the collection are as diverse as the cultures of Europe themselves.
Museum Europäischer Kulturen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Museum Europäischer Kulturen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
25 Arnimallee Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Berlin 14195Germany
