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Teahouse, mosque and garden

Students discover Japanese and oriental architecture
22.10.2005 - 19.03.2006
Students from the schoolclasses 5b and 5c of the Karlsgymnasium Stuttgart present their results emerging from the nationwide pilot venture “schule@museum”. The exhibition in the Wannersaal invites the visitors to look and to play.

schule@museum initiates cooperations between schools and museums turning students from observers into active participants. Eight museums were involved in the nationwide pilot phase, which was started in November 2004 by the Deutsche Museumsbund, Bundesverband Museumspädagogik and the BDK Fachverband für Kunstpädagogik. From November 2004 until June 2005 students coming from several schooltypes and levels discovered the cooperating partner museums and their exhibits concentrating on the intercultural focus.

Dealing with the individuality and speciality of other cultures should create a deep understanding for cultural contexts in the young people’s minds. The different projects of schule@museum shall enable children and teenagers not only to look at the exhibits but to deal with the objects actively and creatively. Working on the museums objects the students were free to transform the objects and to present their ideas using all kind of media.

“Teahouse, mosque and garden” was the title of the Karlsgymnasium project with the Linden-Museum Stuttgart. By the different types of architecture the students discovered the great variety of Japanese and oriental forms of living.

The main topics connect several regions and make a comparison of cultural traditions
possible. In the course of the project the students learnt about different ways of living in different parts of the world.

The students gained a basical introduction in the regional cultures, their economic basis, their social relations and their religious values.

In the end the teams working on different topics exchanged their results, combined them and now present them to the public in the Linden-Museum.


gallery of the exhibition