Kurzvorträge Block 5 - Methoden

Good day. When the LWL Museum for Archaeology and Culture opened its doors 20 years ago, it was considered one of the most modern archaeology museums in Europe, which was largely due to the continuous staging of the house, i.e. the permanent exhibition, but of course also at the time the use of digital media such as BIMA information stations or audio stations. The times are changing, the methods are changing, and we would like to introduce them to you. We are now ready to present the spirits of the past in the field of augmented reality, i.e. you can discover ghost appearances in our museum in accordance with the objects that are there, either with your own device or with devices provided, which lie around in the permanent exhibition, hopefully theft-free. A second project on AR is currently being planned. This is a digital cube on the topic of migration. In our exhibition, in our excavation landscape, we have invited excavation tents to look at the important topics again intensively. We have not had migration so far. We will be able to integrate them this year, in digital form. This means that the exhibition will not be touched in any way, except for this white outline back there on the picture. Everything else is digital. You can open boxes with a device and then approach a topic of migration on various levels. Here is an example of the climate refugee Neanderthals, where the distribution of certain finds defines a different living space, a different living space. The whole thing on such a small theater stage, which also folds over. That means you have three different levels where you can get very deep into the topic. In addition to the AR presentations, we also have a very old theater trick, Pepper's Ghost, which we have processed in our HoloVitrines. A semi-transparent mirror shows seemingly holographic animations next to objects. Here we have selected objects that were produced in a very complex technique, which you often don't look at so closely. That means we can show visitors in beautiful pictures and in a simple way what the value of an object actually is. This is often not the material value, but the value that lies in the production of the object. Here is an example of a faustkeil. And down there we have a beautiful early medieval Fibel, which is really artistic in the highest way. And if you see this animation, you will also be very enthusiastic. What we also have planned is, of course, the VR topic, virtual reality. We are currently improving and perfecting a tour through the castle of Isenburg in Hattingen. You can walk around in it, you can also jump on the castle wall and jump down again if you want. Of course, this will be a stationary thing that we have to include in the exhibition. I don't know what it will look like afterwards. And if you want to take a look at all of this, you have a good opportunity for our museum birthday, which Mrs. Mölders has just published here. From March 31st to April 2nd, we celebrate birthdays with many events and festivities. And of course with our ghosts, with our holo-shops, everything you want. Thank you very much. I'll say good evening now. I'm the closing speaker. It's nice that so many are still there. We do stone by stone. That would be nothing unusual for the Paderborn Museum in the Kaiserpfalz. Nevertheless, it was an unusual exhibition that had nothing to do with digital, but with Lego bricks. This is perhaps really unusual for a museum of archaeology, because we are not a toy museum. That's why we won't change our name now. Nevertheless, it was a very successful exhibition that we all had a lot of fun with. The title doesn't fit us that badly at first. Because in the Paderborn Palatinate, great builders like Carl the Great, Heinrich II or Bishop Meinberg were involved in the construction of the stone. But we have now worked with Lego buildings. But we have not only shown church buildings, to which I come from, but also built a model of the Paderborn Kaiserpfalz from Lego bricks on the occasion of the history of the homeland. And that in its own right, because I was lucky that our museum technician is also one of the Lego fans, is a Lego nerd. Not only true. The actual occasion for the exhibition was actually a model of the Paderborn Cathedral. The seven-year-old, back then they were still students, so 17, 18 years old. Now they are all students. They called themselves Team Hundprax on the occasion of the Paderborn Cathedral anniversary in 2018. A very poorly founded anniversary, but you just like to celebrate anniversaries. On the occasion of the cathedral anniversary, they built it from Lego bricks, about 30,000 bricks. They worked for nights with collapsing towers, but they still finished it. And after the cathedral anniversary, the thing had to be placed somewhere. And then suddenly it was with me. I wasn't that excited at first, because I thought, where do we put this? But then I noticed how people are interested in it. And then the idea came up that a slightly larger exhibition with several other churches would be made from it. And that's why the subtitle is Stein auf Stein Großkirchen. The Paderborn Cathedral is actually one. It is located where there are other models for larger churches. Who has something like that? Who built something like that? Who can borrow something like that? There is actually a scene in Germany, some of which are very active associations. They have up to 80 members, even engage in inclusion projects. And on the other side there are individual people who work in the basement and sacrifice their vacation and I think their financial background to build these Lego bricks. Because they are sometimes up to stones in seven-digit height, which all cost a few cents. We then have, to do a little bit of science, to exaggerate the science, but we have shown large churches from Romanesque to the Neolithic, so up to the Neolithic, if you want to say it more precisely, and brought them to Paderborn. We start here with a Romanesque cathedral. This is one of the most famous Romanesque churches in Germany, the Würzburger Dom. Also the work of a single person, who really worked on it for several years. And you can see on the model that these Lego builders do not reconstruct a Romanesque cathedral and show it, but show the cathedral church of today with the buildings. What looks like a cathedral monastery now? This is the church educational center of the 20th century. They also show Baroque buildings, as you can see here. On the next picture we come to Romanesque. On the small picture on the right, you can see the model of the Paderborn Cathedral in the background, and in the foreground, the Münsteraner Dom, two works of late Romanesque, of early Gothic. One says early Gothic is of course exaggerated when you know that the early Gothic churches were already finished at that time. But this is the delaying element of Westphalia, which we see here. And retarded, I could also say. The cathedral building below is the Münsteraner Dom. This is the work of a Münsteraner theology student, who apparently got terribly bored during the Corona time and then rebuilt the cathedral. The special thing about this church is that the roof was partially dismantled here, although this was definitely part of this model. Here you can also see how differently it is worked. On the right, the Paderborns took relatively light green plates for the copper tones. They also said they were cheaper than the dark green plates that come a little closer to the copper. This is now our highlight that is suitable for cathedral churches. On the one hand, we showed Paris-Notre-Dame there, even before the fire. The model was already ten years old. And on the other hand, our largest model, the Cologne Cathedral, which was made of more than two million Lego bricks. The gentleman standing back there didn't build it as much as possible, despite all the brick shops you have now. But he actually got his bricks directly from Lego. At a time when Lego was in a crisis, he was supported there with commercially viable gray and dark gray bricks and built over two million of them. This is Jürgen Brameck. This is actually his main job. That's how big this model was. The Cologne Cathedral then caused a lot of attention. Not many people were there at our first press conference, but then my, yes, at most 1.60 m volunteer from this Cologne Cathedral could be seen in a newspaper article. And then came Sat.1, RTL and the WDR and then supported our exhibition a bit. I have now left a late Gothic cathedral. So a church that was not built by the bishops, but by the bourgeoisie. It was also technically interesting because it was built by Legoland in Günzburg. And unlike the other cathedrals we have, it is not quite cleanly built in the Lego style as the associations do it. You glued the stones here. This makes it a lot easier to transport. You are not so dependent on the bishops to reassemble Notre-Dame. So not us, but the builders. But still, of course, this does not work with a glued-together church at the height of the Cologne Cathedral. So you have to disassemble it again. And that was the case with Ulm. We now come to the Baroque. This is perhaps least known. The Wiblingen Monastery at Ulm, one of these large Bavarian Baroque monasteries, the Universitätsklinik Ulm. They modelled a little on the towers. They are capped at the top. These Bavarian onion towers are missing. But they are in the original plan of the monastery. So here you actually have a bit of reconstruction. In the background you can see another Baroque church, but only very weak. This is Santa Maria della Salute in Venice. This is something special for the LEGO friends. This is the Dresden Women's Church on the right. He also built this model of Venice and really built the domes from LEGO bricks, which he always placed opposite each other. And he succeeded. There are other dome solutions. For example, the Schönborn Chapel of the Würzburger Dom was developed by the builder with a model from a space station and it fit perfectly. That was a blue plastic part. But here is the coupling art of a builder from Bamberg. Finally, I have to say that the exhibition was a rather unexpected success for me. We were also able to offer a lot of programs in museum pedagogy. In one picture we see the guys from Hundprax, who built the Paderborn Cathedral. They make LEGO films with which they also inspired quite a few children who were then able to make action films with these LEGO dolls. We were particularly supported by a club from Kaiserslautern, the Lautersteine, below the Betzenberg. They not only left us the model of a church from Kaiserslautern, the Marienkirche, for adult LEGO fans. It's also about tricks, how to build something like that. And above all, with contacts to the LEGO headquarters. Among other things, they got us a construction table with thousands of stones for the visitors. We were able to see what was created on the weekend as a result of the most young builders. They were the ones who created this together with the club. Overall, after Corona, it was a successful year for us. A successful museum year that we had a lot of fun. And we could imagine repeating this again. Not to churches, but to palaces, to the palace, to the government buildings and to the headquarters.