FÜHRUNG FÜR KINDER UND ERWACHSENE Das öffentliche Grün

We bring the park into the museum and the museum into the park. A huge flower picture painted on the wall shines out at us. Strange sports equipment for lazy people and a herbarium with park plants bring the city park feeling into the museum. Old photos show us what it looked like and how differently it was used. Who is the park for and what can you do there? If the weather is good, we will also go into the park and take a look at a flag course that poses precisely these questions.

The group exhibitionThe Public Greenis dedicated to Bochum's city park, which is celebrating its 150th birthday this year. As one of the oldest publicly accessible parks in the Ruhr region, it was created in 1876 on the site of the former Allmende, the city's communal pastureland. Where cows, sheep and goats once grazed, people now stroll, play, flirt, dream and much more. The exhibition grows out of the museum and into the park, viewing it as a multi-layered biotope full of stories and asking how space and resources are shared today.

With works by Anikẹ Joyce Sadiq, Black Archive Germany, bureaumilieux, Dagie Brundert, Émile Ratier, Fokus Grupa, FreelingWaters, Helena Wittmann, INLAND, Lin May Saeed, Lütfiye Güzel, Maria Renee Morales Garcia, Marina Naprushkina, Marleen Rothaus, Olu Ogunnaike, Peter Piller, Randomroutines, Taka Kagitomi and Thomas Geiger.

Participation in the guided tours is included in museum admission, children up to the age of 18 have Free admission. The meeting point is at the museum ticket office.