Workshops for school groups

a. Tours through the Wunderkammer

Exquisite artworks, rare objects from natural history, scientific instruments, objects from far-away lands and mysterious things from the age of the Renaissance and the Baroque are all on display in the Wunderkammer Olbricht. They are amazing, touching and spellbinding, and arouse the curiosity at every turn. After a tour through the Wunderkammer, or ‘cabinet of marvels’, participants will have the opportunity to make graphic studies of certain individual objects.

Guide: Charlotte Esser
Length: 45 minutes
Participation: €2 per person

b. Tours through the current exhibition

The tour gives participants an understanding of our current exhibition.

Length: 60 minutes
Participation: €2 per person

c. Collector boxes (workshop)

Do you also collect things of your own? Bring your collection to us and we will join heads in thinking of ways to make the best of your treasured pieces, to give them a format and clear concept. No matter what shape or size your collector box, we will spruce up your collection and take a closer look at it by comparing it to our current art collection.

Supervisor: Sabine Fassl
Length: 120 minutes
Participation: €2 per person

Workshops for Kindergartens

a. The Wunderkammer crocodile

Crocodiles nearly always featured as a traditional part of a cabinet of art and marvels. Our own Wunderkammer features a crocodile hand puppet to delight inquisitive children. It takes children on an exciting trail packed with mysterious stories that tell of distant lands, giant turtles and sailors who circumnavigated the globe. No adventure trail would be complete without a treasure chest. Ours contains all kinds of hidden things: instruments, objects from natural history and some strange and wonderful objects, all of which play a part in the story once the children have untapped their secrets.

Supervisor: Karina Spechter
Length: 45 – 60 minutes
Participation: €2 per person

b. When the birds fly again

High above our entrance lobby hangs a cage, borne aloft by birds with outstretched wings. The piece is by the British artist Polly Morgan and is entitled ‘Departures’. In our workshop we take a closer look at what the work has to say. Why do the birds carry the cage and not the other way around? What could Polly Morgan’s installation have to do with the diorama, or display cases, of recreations of the natural world that you can find in the natural history museum? At the end of the workshop we record bird song and create our own sounds using all kinds of materials such as transparencies, balloons, bird whistles and pots. We’ll also be constructing small sound objects and painting pictures on transparencies.

Supervisor: Joanna Zjadacz
Length: 60 – 90 minutes
Participation: €2 per person