Tanzmuseum des Deutschen Tanzarchivs Köln

In the location's words:

The Dance Museum sees itself as a place of cultural memory, as a place of mediation, but also as a place of encounter and exchange. The range of topics as well as the variety of exhibits - photographs, program notes, reviews, posters, films, diaries and letters of dancers and choreographers, costumes and stage design sketches as well as evidence of visual artists' engagement with the subject of "dance" - prove each time anew how informative, exciting and stimulating 'dance in the museum' can be.

The Dance Museum wants to motivate its visitors to see the reality of dance 'with different eyes'. For this reason, the museum repeatedly asks fundamental questions in its thematic exhibitions: What do we see when we see dance? What shapes our image of dance? Why do we see dance the way we do? Questions that also want to stimulate the visitor to continue asking and researching, to look for answers. This is possible in the archive, but also in the accompanying events in the Dance Museum, which deepen the theme of the exhibition and encourage the visitor to see the exhibition again with different eyes afterwards.