PORZELLANIKON‘S CREATIVE PARTICIPATION OFFER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY
“Museums inspire the future” - that is the motto of this year's International Museum Day, which will take place again digitally across Germany on May 16, 2021. The Porzellanikon - State Museum for Porcelain, Selb and Hohenberg an der Eger, is again actively and creatively involved in this day. Since museum educational offers cannot yet be carried out on site due to the ongoing corona restrictions, the team from the museum's CREATIVE factory has prepared an exciting hands-on activity on the subject of “modeling, pouring and cutting porcelain mass”. It consists of a free “creative bag” for “young porcelain makers” and online instructions via YouTube. So you can bring at least a bit of museum experience home on museum day and get creative as a porcelain manufacturer without having to forego the support of the Porzellanikon team.
The “creative bag” contains utensils that are needed to design different porcelain objects: porcelain mass, slip, a rough-turned mug and other necessary accessories. This can be used to create three objects: a figure made of porcelain, a butterfly, for which the slip is required as a casting compound and the butterfly plaster mold, and a lantern made from the rough-turned cup. The “creative bags” can be ordered and picked up from Porzellanikon via email.
On International Museum Day, the Porzellanikon is digitally by your side by means of specially produced instructions on its YouTube channel (Porzellanikon). The “young porcelain makers” can call them up at home at any time. The CREATIVE factory team provides clear, step-by-step tips and instructions.
Once the museum has reopened, the finished, not yet fired creations can be brought to the Porzellanikon at the Selb location, where they will be fired free of charge. Special storage is not required until then. Christoph Uhlig, Head of Education and Mediation, says: “The objects formed at home remain combustible for a long time. We look forward to seeing the results after the museum opens and hope that this will be the case very soon. "
Interested parties can only pick up the free creative bags by prior arrangement due to the applicable corona regulations. The e-mail address museumspaedagogik(at)porzellanikon.org is available to arrange a collection date and to specify the required number of bags. The creative bags (while stocks last) can be picked up at the cash registers at the two museum locations: Werner-Schürer-Platz 1, 95100 Selb or Schirndinger Straße 48, 95691 Hohenberg a. d. Eger. On museum day, the online instructions are available directly on the museum's YouTube channel (Porzellanikon).
The contents of the Porzellanikon's "Creative Bag" for International Museum Day Photo: Andreas Gießler, © Porzellanikon
Christoph Uhlig, head of the Porzellanikon's education and outreach department, and Sina Hartmann, museum educator, present the contents of the "Creative Bag" Photo: Andreas Gießler, © Porzellanikon
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