A „Museum in a Suitcase“ - always on the road with intercultural projects
Intention
To encourage children to create something of which they can be proud.
Goals
To draw, to paint, to make music, to play theatre, to make films, to organize exhibitions and to publish books
Motto
From children – with children – for children. Museum has made it as a goal to provide more attention to and recognition of the creative expressiveness of children and to build a worldwide forum for the cultural exchange on the basis of children’s art. To build a bridge between all nations through the candid artwork of children.
The main areas:
- The organization and realization of international children’s art exhibitions;
- The creation of interactive exhibition program designs along with supplemental activities for cultural understanding / education;
- The collection, archiving and digitalization of children’s art from around the world;
In cooperation with different institutions all over the world, children are invited to send in their work – pictures, poems, prose, photos, music sheets, videos - any form of artistic expression is possible.
The gallery of children’s art as represented in the exhibitions, is characterized by great diversity and expressiveness. This diversity provides a point of departure for yet another aspect of Museum's work, in which it focus on the encounter with other cultures by way of:
- intercultural communication through cultural exchanges, roving exhibitions and seminars;
- cultural education by means of special offers to children and youth within the exhibitions as well as within the schools.
Local artists from around the world provide a supplement framework for the Berlin exhibitions under the motto „Games, Art, Music“.
The "Kinder - Kunst - Museum" (KKM) owns a collection of international children’s art unique in Germany consisting of 25,000 objects from 82 countries. The works provide a representation of contemporary international children’s art according to size, content and place of origin. Museum's archives also contain teaching materials and visual aids for artistic and / or (inter)cultural education. Additionally, they provide a valuable resource for research in a variety of fields, including art, education, social science, psychology and more.
The greater part of the archive may be borrowed, including the traveling exhibitions "World Dove", "Atlantis", "Millennium", "Arche Noah", "Children & Sports", "My House, My Blue Planet Earth", "Stillleben" "Fantasia" and "Give Me Your Hand".
Credit: image of Kinder - Kunst - Museum
Contacts
+49 (0) 30 8015817
info@kkm-berlin.de
Links
Address
BerlinHartmannsweilerweg 9, 14163 Berlin