With its chosen title ‘how it is’, the Folk Life Museum marks the starting point for its new exhibition. It undertakes a survey of the present social situation and of cultural forms of expression, linking the way a Central European region sees and conceives of itself, a region that enjoys immense popularity as a tourist destination. The focus shifts to those who live in Styria, spend time here or are connected to the province in some other way. What concerns people? What do they identify with, what do they care about? How do they shape their lives, their environment and society? How do they act when faced with developments that influence their usual way of life?
‘SHOWING STYRIA is an ideal opportunity for the Folk Life Museum to deepen the perspective of the present already found in exhibitions to date, and to take up, to a greater degree, topical, socially relevant themes. In this, it always becomes clear that everything that has come into being has a history, too. The museum also takes new paths in terms of communication and cultural participation, its goal thereby to create new approaches to the subject matter of a folk life museum in today’s world.’
Birgit Johler
Curator, Folk Life Museum
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Gruppenfoto im Volkskundemuseum, v. l. n. r.: Kuratorin Birgit Johler, Leiterin Claudia Unger und Kulturlandesrat Christopher Drexler, Foto: Michaela Lorber
Gruppenfoto im Volkskundemuseum, v. l. n. r.: Leiterin Claudia Unger, Kuratorin Birgit Johler und Kulturlandesrat Christopher Drexler, Foto: Michaela Lorber
Reconstruction at Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Reconstruction at Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Reconstruction at Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Reconstruction at Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Reconstruction at Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Reconstruction at Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Reconstruction at Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Reconstruction at Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Reconstruction at Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Reconstruction at Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
The colour of Styria, © Benedikt Haid, Heidi Pretterhofer, Michael Rieper
Airport Graz, May 13, 2020, photo: Airport Graz
Graz, bird's eye view from the east, detail from a 16-part plan by Andreas Trost, 1699
Styrian Provincial Archives, local picture collection: OBS-Graz-III-E-2-K-006-re_print 1730
Consecration stone, Antonius Church, 1602, photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Collection of 300 apple models, Company Dürfeld, Germany, 1880ies, botanical collection/Universalmuseum Joanneum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/Milatovic
Photo of Rainer family in Schloss Seggau, 1970ies, Folk Life Museum/Universalmuseum Joanneum
Model of new synagogue at Graz, planned by Jörg und Ingrid Mayr, scale 1 : 50, about 2000, Jüdische Gemeinde Graz, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/Milatovic
T-Shirt with Styria logo „The green heart of Austria“, 1970ies, Folk Life Museum/Universalmuseum Joanneum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/Milatovic
Claudia Unger, Head of Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Claudia Unger, Head of Folk Life Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Birgit Johler, curator, photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Birgit Johler, curator, photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Birgit Johler, curator, photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Birgit Johler, curator, photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
