A week of researching and teaching, learning and living in (the middle of) the museum: from 21 to 26 July 2025, the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology organized a one-week practical course on current topics and tasks of museums together with the LWL Open-Air Museum Detmold (“Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Alltagskultur”) and the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”. Participants gained in-depth insights into the museum as a field of practice, as a place of research, as a collection and educational institution and much more.
“Nachhaltigkeit?!” (“Sustainability?!”): The Summer School 2025 thus followed the current motto of the Detmold Open-Air Museum and was interested in the making and transformations of this institution. Over the course of the week, a communication and curatorial project was developed in collaboration with the course director, the invited international guest curator and the staff on site.
Participation was open to Master’s students of cultural anthropology, history and art history, as well as other degree programs in the Department of History/Philosophy at the University of Münster.
Concept and management
Prof. Dr. Lioba Keller-Drescher
Professor of European Ethnology with a focus on museums, collections and material culture at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology and In-House Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change” at the University of Münster
International guest curator
Dr. Birgit Johler (Graz/Vienna)
Curator at the Volkskundemuseum Graz – Universalmuseum Joanneum, honorary professor of European Ethnology at the University of Vienna and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change” at the University of Münster
Sponsors
The event was supported by the LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold, the Verein der Freunde des Museums, Fachbereich 8 of the University of Münster and the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”.