International Museum Day: Happy Museums!

Sunday 21 May marks the 46th anniversary of International Museum Day. It was established in 1977 by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). The text of the 1977 ICOM resolution states (freely translated from English): "Museums are an important means for cultural exchange, the enrichment of cultures and the development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples". International Museum Day is also intended to help strengthen the role of the museum and to make visitors more aware of the diversity of museums.

The Gewerbemuseum is on the trail of sustainability in a practical way. The whole family can participate in different ways. Children from the age of 4 can experiment with a wide variety of materials and learn about their recyclability. Meanwhile, adults go on a material tour through the archive and discover a huge potential for sustainable action in chicken feathers, faecal coal or bone glue.

At 13.00, the sustainable work of the museums will be discussed in a discussion with the museum director Noemi Bearth. This will be followed at 14.00 by a guided tour of the current special exhibition. The focus will be on the meaning and effect of colours. The Happy Lego House competition is just as colourful, where you can try your luck throughout the day.

The questions surrounding the state of our earth and the influence of humans are illustrated in an easily understandable way in an interactive exhibition. Natural processes, big connections, misunderstandings and the consequences are explained with the help of facts.

On the occasion of International Museum Day, there will be an exciting post run through the museum that will make you think about yourself. The theme of sustainability and well-being refers to social sustainability in modern society. A new side of football can be discovered at various posts in the exhibition.

The museum is organising a guided tour on the occasion of International Museum Day at 11:30 a.m. on the topic: "Bionics - Animal Models of Technology" with biologist David Inauen. (from 8 years)

In addition, there will be a workshop from 14:00-16:00 on the topic of bionics research, where visitors can experiment and marvel at nature's inventiveness and ingenuity. (from 6 years)

How can we tackle growing mountains of waste and an increasing scarcity of resources? The counter-design to the throwaway society is called the repair society. Repairing is becoming a cultural, social and economic practice to be taken seriously and must already be included in the design process. The exhibition highlights the role of design on the way to a new repair society.

The museum specifically explores the concept of sustainability in the collection of the Numismatic Collection and discusses a sustainable further development of the collection in reference to the past and the future. In the Numismatic Collection, this leads from the coin slip to the online portal. Three guided tours provide in-depth insights into the topic.