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Looking Back to the Future: The Path of German Industrial Culture in the Rhine‐Main Region
Author(s) -
Schirmbeck Peter
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.2006.tb00198.x
Subject(s) - german , german culture , task (project management) , key (lock) , history , political science , visual arts , architectural engineering , sociology , archaeology , engineering , computer science , art , computer security , systems engineering
Museums have the fine task of collecting and preserving history for future generations. By presenting the collections to the public, museums not only document different epochs but also try to look at them via new aspects, widening cultural understanding. In the Municipal Museum of Rüsselsheim, German industrial culture in the Rhine‐Main region is described and understood as a “route” that serves as a conceptual key identifying crucial architectural, historical and cultural resources of the region. In this cultural model, past, present and future are directly intertwined, and the invisible door between the world of museums and the “outside” world has vanished.