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Exceptions are the Rule Here. Inclusive Educational Work in Museums

During the project period from September 2019 to December 2021, Museum Island and Haus Bastian became experimental spaces for inclusive educational work in museums. People with and without disabilities, actors from museums, educational institutions, art and culture jointly explored the creative and design potential of inclusive educational processes. The project consisted of three building blocks.

Inclusive Schools and Museums

In four model projects, students and teachers from inclusive schools, together with museum staff, developed new approaches for communicating information. By analysing works of art and artistic strategies, they explored the strengths of diversity and heterogeneity. The participants in the process also reflected on how inclusive schools and museums work together and how this collaboration can have a lasting effect.

Working Group: Art and Inclusion

The “Art and Inclusion” working group was the creative and reflective level of the project Exceptions are the Rule Here: Inclusive Educational Work in Museums. At regular intervals, participants in the model projects met together with external experts at Haus Bastian. In an interdisciplinary and action-oriented exchange, they tested the forms of organisation, formats and methods of inclusive educational work in museums. The Working Group: Art and Inclusion continues to take place regularly at Haus Bastian.

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Workshops for Children and Families

On Sundays, families and children ‒ with and without disabilities ‒ have a chance to get creative. Using a variety of materials and techniques, they have a chance to express their ideas about topics relating to the Museumsinsel, while discovering their artistic styles in the process.

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The project Exceptions Are the Rule Here! Inclusive Educational Work in Museums was supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

The project exceptions are the rule here! Inclusive educational work in museums is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.