Tea and Coffe Lectures

A closer look: Exhibitions on sustainability topics and realised environmentally friendly

with Birte Kahmann
on 16 May 2025

Location: online via Zoom
Time Tunisia: 15.00-16.30
Time Germany: 16.00-17.30
Time Egypt: 17.00-18.30

On Friday, 20 June 2025, the GreenMuseumHub cordially invites you to the Tea & Coffee Lecture with Birte Kahmann. She will present the travelling exhibition “Jetzt geht’s rund”, which highlights the circular economy as a key model for sustainable development. The exhibition not only deals with sustainability thematically, but also serves as a practical example of environmentally responsible exhibition design.

How to make success measurable?
A guideline and an evaluation matrix of the Landesamt für Museen Baden-Württemberg

with Stefanie Dowidat
on 20.6.2025

Location: online via Zoom
Time Tunisia: 15.00-16.30
Time Germany: 16.00-17.30
Time Egypt: 17.00-18.30

Registration here:
Language: English with automatic Zoom subtitles in Arabic, German and other languages

On Friday, 20 June 2025, the GreenMuseumHub cordially invites you to the Tea & Coffee Lecture with Stefanie Dowidat, certified transformation manager for sustainable museums and experienced exhibition designer. She will present the recently published guide ‘Sustainable Exhibitions’, which was published by the Baden-Württemberg State Office for Museums.
The presentation will introduce both the guide and its complementary tool, the evaluation matrix - a digital self-assessment system that enables museums to systematically evaluate and quantify the sustainability of their exhibition practice in all project phases.

Upcoming Lectures:

Green from the outside: Green facades and urban gardening for more visibility and climate adaptation
Juli / August 2025

How do we want to live and learn in the future: communication and narratives in museums
Juli / August 2025

Past Lectures:

Making It Matter: How Do We Motivate More Sustainable Behaviour?

with Lars Petersen
on 2 May 2025

Location: online via Zoom
Time Tunisia: 15.00-16.30
Time Germany:
16.00-17.30
Time Egypt: 17.00-18.30

Language: English with automatic Zoom subtitles in Arabic, German, and other languages
On Friday, 2 May 2025, the GreenMuseumHub warmly invites you to a Tea & Coffee Lecture with Lars Petersen from the Baden State Museum Karlsruhe.
The lecture addresses the crucial question of how to effectively engage teams, institutions and audiences in sustainable thinking and action. While sustainability and climate issues have gained visibility, the challenge is to motivate lasting and widespread behaviour change. Together we will explore possible strategies and share experiences of successfully involving different stakeholders in museums and beyond.

Online-Lecture

"Climate Protection and Sustainability at the German Museums Association"

with Sina Hermann
15.11.2024

Location: Online via Zoom
Tunisian and German time: 4 - 5.30pm
Egyptian time: 5 - 6.30pm

Language: English with automatic subtitles in Arabic, German etc.

In her presentation, Sina Hermann will discuss the latest steps taken by the German Museums Association towards sustainable practices. Topics include the climate protection guide, minimum standards for museums, recommendations for the establishment of a climate corridor and plans for a forthcoming certification programme for sustainable museums, which is expected to be introduced by the end of next year.

We are looking forward to a lively exchange!

Free of charge

Registration: click here for Zoom-registration

GreenMuseumCamp Cairo 2024

13th-14th November 2024
Online via Zoom and live in Cairo
Register here for online participation: https://uni-wuerzburg.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u5Aqf-mgrj0qE9cF-VI1e5uVTFPkEUdRO3BE
13th November: Programme start at 5 pm local time, 4 pm Tunisian and German time
14th November: Programme start at 5.30 pm local time, 4.30 pm Tunisian and German time

Tea & Coffee Lectures

free Online-Lecture “Sustainability and justice” with Alice Schröder-Klaassen

Start:	27.09.2024 16:00
End:	27.09.2024 17:30

Dear Students, dear Network Partners, dear Interested Parties,

We cordially invite you to the fourth Tea & Coffee Lecture _"Sustainability and justice" with Alice Schröder-Klaassen_ (Head of Collection and Exhibition Department, Open Air Museum Detmold), followed by a discussion on:

_Friday, 27th September 2024, Location: Zoom (Online)_
from 15:00 – 16:30 (sharp) Tunesian time
from 16:00 – 17:30 (sharp) German time
from 17:00 – 18:30 (sharp) Egyptian time

What is fair enough? Museums on their way to Sustainability
Museums should increasingly act towards the future in terms of sustainability towards their collections and exhibitions, visitors and employees. As institutions, they are caught between the preservation of traditions and the development of an institution that acts fairly and participatively, both internally and externally. Museums must therefore increasingly deal with questions of social responsibility. In this context, philosophical theories of justice can offer valuable perspectives as they help to understand museums not only as places of cultural heritage but also as institutions of social and cultural transformation. By placing (distributive) justice at the heart of their work, museums can contribute to a more just and inclusive society, Alice Schröder-Klaassen says.

The host is the DAAD project "GreenMuseumHub: Sustainable Futures for Museums and Heritage Sites" of Helwan University in Cairo (Egypt), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Germany), and Université de la Manouba (Tunisia). As part of the project, several Tea & Coffee Lectures are held each year to collectively approach the topic of "Sustainability."

During and after the presentations, we invite you to discuss this topic. Where do we see the museum's responsibilities and opportunities?
We look forward to the exchange!

Language?
English, with automatic Zoom subtitles (Arabic, German etc.)

_Free entry!_

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