Meshwork of Things
The Collections Showcase of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
80 objects. 26 collections. 1 digital guide.
∞ connections.
The Meshwork of Things is our permanent exhibition. It connects the collections of the university in new ways. Things from different scientific disciplines come together in an unexpected constellations: What connects an Ice Age rock sample with a gramophone record? What comparisons do the respiratory organs of vertebrates and church images afford?
A digital guide reveals the diversity and (in)comparability of things, historical developments and the use of things in research and teaching.
The Meshwork of Things is currently becoming the Meshwork of Knowledge!
The former Meshwork of Things exhibition can still be visited online. Please click here.
In the press
“The cabinet of curiosities of the 21st century opens via an app. […] With these transversal connections, the exhibition team succeeds in creating an approach to mediation that is as critical as it is playful.”
Der Tagesspiegel (our translation)
Credits
- Curated by Felix Sattler, Sarah Katharina Becker, Jessica Korp.
- Idea: Felix Sattler, Jochen Hennig
- Architect: Roswitha Koetz
- Exhibition design: Felix Sattler, Caspar Pichner
- Graphic design: Konrad Angermüller and shoutr labs UG
- Production: Caspar Pichner
- Digital Guide: shoutr labs UG
- Lighting: service+support LICHTSYSTEME e. K., Jens Spangenberg
- Woodworkers: Tischlerei Fritz Schulz GmbH, Peter Dörnert
Easy Read Version
What is this exhibition?
Meshwork of Things
is the permanent exhibition
of the Tieranatomisches Theater.
The exhibition brings together
many different objects
from the collections
of Humboldt-Universität.
The exhibition asks:
What connects things?
Some objects may seem
very different.
But together,
they can tell new stories.
And they can help us
ask new questions.
Right now,
the exhibition is being changed.