Programme for children and teenagers

At me Collectors Room, children and teenagers can explore the current exhibition and the Wunderkammer in a wide variety of ways, using all senses, not just sight. On offer are both a programme for school groups that can be individually tailored in liaison with teachers, and an extra-curricular range of activities.

At the heart of our work lie the curiosity and the participants’ desire to explore, as they are given the chance to follow, scrutinize and give creative responses to various topics, in workshops and tours aided by artists and a team of art, drama and music teachers.

The programme of activities has been conceived for various age groups and was created in conjunction with Stiftung Federkiel.

Contact: Charlotte Esser, Fon +49 30 86 00 85-113, esser[at]me-berlin.com

children’s programme

Monsterworkshop, 2011 © me Collectors Room Berlin, Foto Jana Ebert

Kinderprogramm © me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht

Kinderprogramm © me Collectors Room Berlin

WONDERFUL – Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke

The Wunderkammer has been a permanent part of me Collectors Room in Auguststrasse since the opening of the exhibition space in 2010 and is currently the only one of its kind in Berlin. With the current exhibition, the Wunderkammer is presenting spectacular artworks that it has been newly acquired, along with several contemporary works from the Olbricht Collection that center on the theme of the Wunderkammer or historical ‘cabinet of curiosities’.

The Wunderkammer Olbricht

The practice of maintaining ‘cabinets of curiosities’ evolved during the Renaissance and Baroque. Such cabinets were collectors’ rooms in which precious artworks (artificialia), rare phenomena of nature (naturalia), scientific instruments (scientifica), objects from strange worlds (exotica), and inexplicable items (mirabilia) were preserved.