Museum makes you strong starts at the phanTECHNIKUM
The innovative project “An interactive museum tour” enables a participatory museum experience for children and young people through the joint commitment of Licht am Horizont e.V., TLM MV and Filmbüro MV.
In 2024, two projects will start at the phanTECHNIKUM. The first project, “An Interactive Museum Tour”, will already be picking up speed during the winter holidays and is intended to offer children and young people without regular access to museum offers the opportunity to actively participate in and help shape the content-related mediation work. The projects are carried out with the local partners Licht am Horizont e.V., a non-profit organization dedicated to the care of educationally disadvantaged children and young people with a strong network in the socio-educational field, and the Filmbüro MV e.V., which has years of experience with media education projects and contributes the technical know-how.
The “Museum macht stark” program gives museums the chance to reach new target groups, financed by the German Museums Association and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In the “Museum macht stark” program, museums are given the opportunity to enter into alliances with socio-spatial partners and thus reach completely new target groups. The special feature here is the full financing of the project by the German Museums Association and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This also gives smaller museums the opportunity to network both regionally and nationally and to carry out socially valuable projects without having to contribute financially themselves. With the funds provided by the BMBF, several hundred small and large projects have already been planned and implemented.
The centerpiece of the project is the training of 12 participants to become peer teamers. The TLM MV and the Filmbüro MV are leading workshops on content and media education preparation. After the training, the peer teamers will develop digital mediation offers with 20 other participants.
The goal is to create several Actionbound tours. The project offers a unique opportunity to promote the participation of children and young people in cultural education and to explore innovative ways of using digital media for cultural education, while also contributing to diversity and inclusion in the field. A nice, lasting side effect is that the results will remain accessible to all visitors to the museum even after the project ends. Using the Actionbound app, the created museum tours can be played by anyone.
But the project work continues during the fall vacation as well. Together with both partners, a second subproject is preparing the implementation of a children's storytelling salon, which will be presented and digitally recorded during a final event. Under expert guidance, the children between the ages of 6 and 10 will take on all areas of responsibility themselves, from developing thematic ideas to technical implementation.