Selected Museum Projects
The Goethe-Institut is incorporating new perspectives on cultural education and international cooperation into a variety of projects. Museums and other social actors are significant partners for the institutes abroad.
The general public is becoming increasingly aware of the potential offered by museums as places for democratic education, dialogue and social discourse with participation from diverse actors. The Goethe-Instituts abroad have strong connections to key figures within the museum and culture scene at local level.
The organisation has years of practical experience in cooperative and partner-oriented working approaches, during which time an ideal of international dialogue has been pursued, with the principle of learning from one another at its core. Capacity building in this context is neither a one-sided transfer of knowledge nor an export of existing models of museum practice, it’s a process of knowledge sharing between all parties, and the expression of a self-perception based on learning and unlearning. A dialogic encounter on an equal footing, which also reflects power relations, forms the foundation for the development of new museum practices and projects.
The general public is becoming increasingly aware of the potential offered by museums as places for democratic education, dialogue and social discourse with participation from diverse actors. The Goethe-Instituts abroad have strong connections to key figures within the museum and culture scene at local level.
The organisation has years of practical experience in cooperative and partner-oriented working approaches, during which time an ideal of international dialogue has been pursued, with the principle of learning from one another at its core. Capacity building in this context is neither a one-sided transfer of knowledge nor an export of existing models of museum practice, it’s a process of knowledge sharing between all parties, and the expression of a self-perception based on learning and unlearning. A dialogic encounter on an equal footing, which also reflects power relations, forms the foundation for the development of new museum practices and projects.
