Participatory museum workshop in the Museum of Ethnography – topic: intergeneration
In summer 2015 we had a workshop with 15 young adults (Z generation, ‘till 20 years), 3 Y generation (25-30 years old) curator and museum trainer, 2 X generation (35-50 years old) curator and museum educator and 1 V (V for veterans = above 50 years) curator. We were together for four days at the museum and wanted the youngsters and the museum to engage with each other – make the youngsters feel comfortable in the museum, and the museum to be comfortable with young adults.
The material goal was to prepare a small exhibition out of the personal objects of the participants. The sophisticated idea behind this was to change the roles of the participants and let them to be experts; to understand that their stories and their culture is important and has a value; and to make a familiar place out of the museum.
Actually it was a sort of bridging between the elitist, old fashioned and canonized museum and a dynamic, full-of-life part of society that is the audience, the surrounding and the source of the museum. Bridging between generations.
In summer 2015 we had a workshop with 15 young adults (Z generation, ‘till 20 years), 3 Y generation (25-30 years old) curator and museum trainer, 2 X generation (35-50 years old) curator and museum educator and 1 V (V for veterans = above 50 years) curator. We were together for four days at the museum and wanted the youngsters and the museum to engage with each other – make the youngsters feel comfortable in the museum, and the museum to be comfortable with young adults.
The material goal was to prepare a small exhibition out of the personal objects of the participants. The sophisticated idea behind this was to change the roles of the participants and let them to be experts; to understand that their stories and their culture is important and has a value; and to make a familiar place out of the museum.
Actually it was a sort of bridging between the elitist, old fashioned and canonized museum and a dynamic, full-of-life part of society that is the audience, the surrounding and the source of the museum. Bridging between generations.
