A field report from the Stapferhaus. With Sibylle Lichtensteiger (long-standing director of the Stapferhaus)
Moderated by: Barbara Plankensteiner, Director MARKK
The Swiss Stapferhaus aims to exhibit socially relevant and controversial topics in such a way that a broad public can engage with them. Because it has no collection to fall back on, it is always necessary to find new formats with which abstract themes can be experienced: visitors bathe in a million coins, are only allowed to enter the museum barefoot or swap the elevator ride for a Ferris wheel ride. Do such activities make sense? And: what would it take in a post ethnographic museum like the MARKK to pursue similar approaches? Sibylle Lichtensteiger brings examples from the Stapferhaus to the MARKK and discusses with visitors how museums can be experienced differently.
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