A new concept for museum training in Germany

To talk about a new concept for museum training seems perhaps, to be a little bit exaggerated. For long time you have all been talking about concepts and contents for museum training and as I figured out the debate on the topic in Germany is as old as the appearance of national museums in the 19th century. Men like Theodor Mommsen, Rudolph Virchow, Alfred Lichtwark, all well known historians and supporters of the museum idea, spoke and wrote not only about the importance of museums as cultural and educational institutions but also supported the idea of professionalisation of museums work. Some of the ideas of our ancestors are still part of an ongoing discussion. The topic of my talk today will be what king of personnel a museum of our time needs to cope with the growing demand for internal and external organization. I shall present to you a new training program for museum workers in Germany which aims not to produce a new group of researchers but to prepare students for the practical work in the museum field.

Katalog der vom Verein "Jüdisches Museum Breslau" in den Räumen des Schlesischen Museums für Kunstgewerbe und Altertümer veranstalteten Ausstellung Das Judentum in der Geschichte Schlesiens : 3. Februar bis 17. März 1929

verfaßt von Erwin Hintze

Vor den neuen Fresco-Bildern am Museum: Nante: Pots Tausend! Herr Doktor! Da sind Sie ja noch mit Ihr Pflegekind in Berlin ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Nante erläutert den bayerischen Abgeordneten Eisele und Beisele die Bedeutung der neuen Fresko-Bilder am Berliner Museum. Mit einer Fülle von politischen Anspielungen

Der Königl. Botanische Garten und das Botanische Museum zu Berlin in den Jahren 1878-1891

Von Ign. Urban

Das botanische Museum in Berlin

Von Prof. Dr. H. Landois

The Berlin Republic. Evolution of Germany's politics of memory and German patriotism. OSW Point of View, August 2009

Important changes have occurred in recent years in the attitude of a majority of the German elite towards the history of the 20th century and the political identity built on collective memory. Until recently, the sense of guilt for the crimes of the Third Reich and the obligation to remember were prevalent. While these two elements of Germany's memory of World War II are still important, currently the focus increasingly shifts to the German resistance against Nazism and the fate of the Germans who suffered in the war. Positive references to Germany's post-war history also occupy more and more space in the German memory. In 2009, i.e. the year of the 60th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany and the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism, the efforts of German public institutions concentrate on promoting a new canon of history built around the successful democratisation and Germany's post-war economic success. The purpose behind these measures is to build a common historical memory that could be shared by the eastern and western parts of Germany and appeal to Germany's immigrants, who account for a growing proportion of the society.

Germany - Federal Republic and West Berlin; official standard names approved by the U. S. Board on Geographic Names.

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Bericht über die Thontafeln von Tell-el-Amarna im Königlichen Museum zu Berlin und im Museum von Bulaq /

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