Digitization does not stop at the museums door: The Übersee-Museum is also working on digitizing its collections and making them accessible online for everyone. Not an easy task with over 1 million objects in the natural history department alone! This important work is mostly hidden and hardly noticed by the public.
With the cabinet exhibition “Digi … What?” the Übersee-Museum is making its collection work visible and invites visitors to look behind the scenes. At set times, natural history objects are digitized live in the exhibit. At the same time, the public can engage in conversation with the staff. How does the digitization of the objects work? What equipment and technologies are used? What challenges do the employees face and where are the opportunities for the daily museum work? What will the museum of the future look like? Visitors can get to the bottom of these questions and marvel at the first results of digitization at an explorative media table.
Funded by the Kultur Digital program of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
With “The Blue Continent”, the Übersee-Museum is opening a fascinating look at life and cultures in the Pacific. The new permanent exhibition offers a change of perspective, as it was conceived together with Pacific Islanders and provides space for the diverse voices from the region. The exhibition is dedicated to the major issues of our time: biodiversity, cultural identity, use of resources, climate change and a look at the colonial past form a multifaceted kaleidoscope of island worlds. The highlight of the exhibition is an eight-meter-high planted island with a digital waterfall. Young and old are invited to linger under the installation of a school of fish or to experience the blue continent at interactive stations.