Doku "ARCHIV DER ZUKUNFT" - mit Vortrag vom wissenschaftl. Direktor des Naturkundemuseums Karlsruhe

Special screening of the documentary film "ARCHIV DER ZUKUNFT" by Joerg Burger.

Followed by a lecture by the scientific director of the Natural History Museum Karlsruhe, Prof. Dr. Martin Husemann.

Like a tour, ARCHIV DER ZUKUNFT opens up the institution, especially those places that remain invisible during a regular museum visit: Here, a recently deceased lion is brought in for taxidermy or the posture of a dinosaur is adapted to the current state of research; there, the Venus of Willendorf is digitized or a prehistoric grave including cremation is recreated. In between: tweezers, saws, scanners, DNA samples.
Curious, inquiring, patient: room by room, handle by handle, the camera captures the action and reveals the tasks, responsibilities and possibilities of a museum layer by layer. With the gaze of an attentive observer, director and cameraman Joerg Burger sketches the museum as a place where the physical craft of the object always goes hand in hand with questions about knowledge constructions and their inherent power relations. The human species - as the supposed observer and knower - is ultimately itself observed in its relationship to animals, nature and history.

ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE shows the museum as a world that is constantly changing: The spectacular archives from thousands of years of natural and human history are constantly re-interrogated in the present through basic research and the museum's living apparatus in order to tell stories in the future.