About this project
PART I: Information on the applicant organisation
1.1 Name of organisation and acronym/abbreviation: City Šternberk
1.2 Legal status:Public
1.3 Registration number: 00299529
1.4 Date of establishment: 1st October 1980
1.5 Address:
Street: Horní náměstí 16
Postcode: 785 01
Town/city: Štenberk
Country: Czech republic
1.6 Tel. (including country and area codes): +420585 013 785
1.7 Fax (including country and area codes): +420585 012 953
1.8 E-mail: gottwaldova@sternberk.cz
1.9 Permanent staff employed by the organisation (number): 125
1.10 Legal representative (person authorised to sign an agreement with the Commission):
Surname: Skyva
Forename: Petr
Position: Mayor
1.11 Contact person/project manager (person responsible for the general coordination of the work programme):
Surname: Skyva
Forename: Petr
Position: Mayor
1.12 Person responsible for financial matters:
Surname: Skyva
Forename: Petr
Position: Mayor
1.13 Structure of the applicant organisation
The oldest reference to the town of Šternberk comes from 1296. In the second half of the 14th century, Šternberk obtained the privileges of a fortified town from Albert from Šternberk, the archbishop of Magdeburg. In 1409 Šternberk acquired the town privilege, which led to judicial and administrative autonomy. Šternberk is known for its rich history (Šternberk castle, Augustinian monastery from 18th century, Church of the Annuciation of Virgin Mary and many others), car races called "ECCE HOMO" (the race track was used as early in 1905 as the track for speed testing in the competition of reliability Vienna - Wroclaw) which attracts annually tourists from the whole Czech republic as well as from abroad.
The city Šternberk as an economical subject exists from 1980, and besides administrating the own city, it executes the state administration for 19 surrounding villages. There are 14 198 inhabitants living in Šternberk.
The structure of the city administration is as follows:
1.14 Organisation's usual sources of finance
One part of the Šternberk budget comes from public resources as a subsidy from the state budget of the Czech republic - covering approximately 15% of the city's yearly budget. Further the incomes to the city's budget are made up from tax incomes of all kinds, own activities income, other then claimed subsidies (acquired on the basis of applications such as PHARE, State environmental fund etc.) and transfers from the economic activity of the city. The city's total income has been increasing over the past years and it should continue to do so furthermore.
Šternberk realises the importance of acquiring alternative sources of finance and therefore since 2000 it has applied for many subsidies and grants, mainly in the field of infrastructure, renovation of the monastery and its wall paintings, reconstruction of the building for future Exposition of time etc.
1.15 Experience in the sector to which this application relates
The city Šternberk can demonstrate its experience in various activities and projects in the cultural sector. Apart from the traditional cultural events realized every year (Šternberk´s cultural summer, European heritage days, Craftsmen fair) and annual participation at foreign tourist trades, Šternberk´s two most important cultural projects are:
- Extensive reconstruction of former augustinian monastery.
- Complete reconstruction of the "House of enlightenment" and proposal of the design and its future utilization as the "Exposition of time" space.
The House of enlightenment is situated on one of the main Šternberk´s avenues and belongs to the oldest city houses. The house is registered in the list of cultural heritage of the Czech republic (reg.no. 9-25). Since 2000 Šternberk initiated a project of creating a content and utilization for this huge space.
The project concerned the revival of exhibits from the former Museum of time, which used to exist in Štenberk since 1965. These exhibits were removed in 2000 into Museum of Geography Olomouc, but because of many protests and disagreements with this transfer (see Annex 5 Demonstration), the city decided that the House of enlightenment will be gradually restored for the purposes of new, modern, barrier-free and interactive space for the Exposition of time. The reconstruction started in 2002 owing to the financial contribution of € 97 000 from the Ministry of Culture, Czech republic and it should be completed at the turn of 2005/2006.
As Šternberk´s aim is to prepare really unique Exposition of time as an added value of the city, its representatives initiated already 3 years ago co-operation with many professional, art and science institutions who created the members of the present project "Exposition of time" proposed in this Culture 2000 call.
1.16 Previous experience in cooperation with other organisations in other countries participating in the programme
For example:
Czech-German fund for the future: co-operation on the common exhibition of a German painter living in Šternberk, 2002.
- INTERACT, Stutgart: joint co-operation on the annual artistic symposium during 90´s.
- Pro Helvetia foundation, Switzerland: permanent co-operation on the annual artistic symposium held in the Šternberk monastery area.
- PROARTE VIVENDI, Berlin: symposium "Levels of communication", including the exhibition in Hamburg, Berlin. 2002 - 2003.
- BRITISH COUNCIL, Great Britain: Exhibition "Foreign closeness" organized in co-operation with the Jewish foundation Prague, 2002.
- United Games, Europe: annual competition of European high schools.
1.17 Financial support previously obtained directly or indirectly from a European institution or Community body during the past three years (where applicable and including one-year projects or multiannual cooperation agreement projects funded by Culture 2000)
Please give details of each grant obtained:
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Community
programme or budget heading |
Project title |
Year and
contract reference number |
Grant amount |
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PHARE
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Year 2001
CZ 9807/04/01
Grant agreement No: 68 |
5 638 |
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PHARE |
Partner
co-operation with European union countries |
Year 2001
CZ 9807/04/01
Grant agreement No:
83 |
8 457 |
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PHARE
|
Creation
of the information system of the microregion Šternbersko |
Year 2001
CZ 9807/04/01
Grant agreement No: 89 |
2 481 |
1.18 Has your organisation submitted, or does it intend to submit, a grant application for this project or another project in the same sector to another Commission department?
NO
If yes, please sign the following declaration:
I am fully aware that my organisation is not entitled to receive more than one grant from the Commission for the action covered by this application and will therefore withdraw any other application for any other grant from the Commission should this application be successful, or will withdraw this application should any other application be successful.
PART II Information on the project for which you are requesting a grant
II.1 Title of the project: EXPOSITION OF TIME
II.2 Description of the project
Planned project activities
A long-term project objective (to be realized in 2005-2006) is to open access to the unique collection of the European horology (mostly from the collection fund of the Muzeum of Geography, Olomouc) that will be displayed in the recently reconstructed space of the "Exposition of Time" (ET) in Štenberk. In order to fill this 3 storey space with a quality Exposition, verified and enriched by the European experience, a part of it will be opened for broad public in the partner European cities within the project "Exposition of Time" in the form of a touring exhibition.
To enable the touring part of the ET for setting into a complex framework, one project part will be also an extensive preparation of virtual animation of the final space design of the building for the ET, including the choice and placement of particular exhibits as well as art, interactive and informative elements.
Besides the preparation of the ET, there will be held one of the most important project activities - workshop called "Museopedagogy In Time". It will concern the methods of museopedagogy solving the questions of active utilization of museum work in the education process. The target is to contribute to the improvement of the exhibition and museum life in the participating countries.
Seminars, workshops and other thematic events for both the youth and the broad public will supplement the touring exhibition. These seminars will always comply with local conditions of a partner country. Each of them will choose coorporating organizations and lecturers for such seminars within its part of the exhibition. The seminars will open the TIME topics and arouse a discussion over the "supra-time" life questions. One of the associated activities of the touring exhibition will be an installation of a unique musical composition Longplayer (perfoming until 2999 as the Millenium Musical Composition) evoking the topics of time, rush and eternity.
An informative visit to the London museums is intended for the project team members and specialists selected from the cooperating partners, as well as the meeting with their representatives for the purposes of acquiring inspiration for the preparation of the touring exhibition, establishing contacts with the British museum specialists and gaining practical experience for future exhibiting events. Other essential project activities will concern: design and update of the project web site, screen documentary of the project proceedings, preparation, print and distiribution of advertising materials supporting the publicity of the project, gradual and final evaluation.
Date, place and duration of the project events:
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Month |
Activity
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Place
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Preparatory activities |
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June – September 2004 |
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Šternberk |
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Preparatory work on the design
of the project webpage |
Olomouc,Sternberk |
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Press conference – the project
presentation |
Olomouc |
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October 2004 |
2-day meeting of all project
members and specialized partners |
Šternberk |
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November 2004 |
Selection of exhibits for the
virtual animation Exposition of Time |
Olomouc,Prague, Šternb. |
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Meeting of the Workshop
lecturers – praparation of the program |
Lorsch (Germany) |
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December 2004 |
Opening of the virtual animation
space of the Exposition of Time |
Prague, Sternberk |
|
Events program |
|
January 2005 |
5-day Workshop “Museopedagogy In
Time” |
Lorsch (Germany) |
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Initiation of the preparatory
phase of the travelling exhibition |
Olomouc,Prague,
Sternberk+foreign partners |
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February 2005 |
|
London (UK) |
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March 2005 |
Finalization of the preparatory
phase of the travelling exhibition |
Olomouc,Prague,
Sternberk+foreign partners |
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2–30 April 2005 |
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Kungsbacka, Sweden |
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April 2005 |
Associated activities of the
exhibition (WS, seminars, Longplayer) |
Kungsbacka, Sweden |
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Finalising the virtual animation
of the Exposition of Time |
Prague, UK, Sternberk |
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May 2005 |
1-day meeting of all project
organizers – gradual evaluations |
Sternberk |
|
|
Sternberk |
|
Initiation of the travelling
exhibition in Sternberk |
Sternberk, ČR |
|
Press conference |
Sternberk,Olomouc |
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June 2005 |
Assosiated activities |
Sternberk |
|
July-September |
Opening of the travelling
exhibition in Olomouc |
Olomouc |
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11 September – 14 October 2005 |
Opening of the the travelling
exhibition in Lorsch |
Lorsch, Germany |
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Assosiated acitivities of the
exhibition |
Lorsch, Germany |
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October 2005 |
2-day meeting of the project
members and partners; project evaluation |
Sternberk |
Objectives of the project and the way of reaching them
Long-term project targets:
- Revilatization of the almost perished name of the town - ŠTERNBERK - THE CITY OF CLOCK.
- Recovery of the unique European collection of clocks presently placed in the depository of the Museum of Geography in Olomouc (not fully accessible to public), through the touring (and afterwards stable) Exposition of Time. This collection contains products from the clock manufactures throughout Europe. The subject of time, its measuring and the development of mechanical time measurement has always been evolving in the European context.
- By means of quality, reviewed and enriched touring exhibition with the theme of European horology to fill the newly recontructed space of the ET in Sternberk, in which the unique Exposition will be placed after the 35 years of the building's operating, followed by a current 4-year break.
Short-term project targets
- Accessibility of the European cultural heritage through new technologies (virtual animation of the overall space of the ET).
- Increased quality of the upcoming exposition based on the cooperation with European specialists so as to include into the exhibition the most modern elements of interactivity to create an efficient relationship with the target group of the exhibition: children and the youth.
- Initiation of a cultural dialog and search for new forms of education through modern methods and experiences of museumpedagogy that will be the key topic of the Workshop in the partner town of Lorsch and following project activities.
- Explicating (together with the Czech and foreign specialists) the question of "TIME" and its importance for all age groups.
- Revitalization of the life in museums and exhibition spaces of all partner cities through the touring part of the ET containing modern findings from museopedagogy and active work with visitors.
Long-term expected results of the project
Open access of the rich European cultural heritage in the form of quality, modern and inovative Exposition with an active attitude towards public, especially children and the youth. The theme of the Exposition concerns several subjects of education (geography, history, physics) and will be presented as an illustrative part for the definition of a particular curriculum, prompting creativity of children (museopedagogy elements).
Cooperation of co-organizers on the realisation of the project
Co-organizers of the project are the partner cities of the applicant, the town of Kungsbacka, Sweden, and Lorsch, Gemany.
Kungsbacka: preparation of the exhibition, an active participation on the Workshop in Lorsch, an organization of the exhibition in the cultural centre of Kungsbacka including several associated activities (a workshop with children, cooperation with a Space observatory, work on an amateur film, etc.). This will be the place of the first evaluation of the project (public response, comments and others). Further, it will actively participate on the promotion of the project.
Lorsch: an organization of the preparatory meeting of the Workshop lecturers; afterwards the organizer of the overall Workshop with the topic of museopedagogy. Additionally, it will share the preparation of the touring exhibition and response for its realisation in the Museum of Lorsch, including a coordination of associated activities of the exhibition focusing on broad public.
Added value of the cooperation on the European level
Meeting the target of introducing the rich European cultural heritage by means of interactive, modern and entertaining/educational form to broad public (with the focus on children and the youth) can be achieved explicitly by cooperating with specialists on the European level. The methods of musopedagogy are not recently widely spread in the Czech Republic, and neither is sufficient the preparation of future specialists in this area. The information on the posibilities of utilization of these methods is also inefficient. Within the 1-year project, through the exchange of experience ranging throughout Europe, the target of enrichment of the museum and exhibition life of all participating organizations and institutions will be met.
The travelling part of the Exposition of Time containing the common European inheritage will offer a chance to be seen by a great number of visitors of various cultural backgrounds (Southern Sweden, Northern Czech Republic, Southern Germany). Also partners from Great Britain and Austria will be cooperating on the project.
The project will keep its permanent continuity in the Exposition of Time in Sternberk, where also museopedagogy projects with children will be accomplished in cooperation with the project partners.
The target groups benefiting from the project
- Visitors of the exhibitions, associated seminars and practical workshops - children, the youth, students, families with children, tourists, broad public.
- Participants of the specialized workshop, seminars, a tour of London museums - specialists from the partner institutions and organizations from the branches such as museum work, exhibition work, museology, pedagogy.
II.3 Detailed description of the activities for which financial support is requested
Subcontracting bodies participating in the preparation and realisation of the project:
- CREATEAM, Prague, Czech republic:
- art scenario and visual solution of the Exposition of time space, virtual animation of the Exposition of time, graphical design of promotion materials. For the company portfolio see Annex 5 Createam Profile.
- WHITE ROOK Consultancy, Devon, Great Britain:
- co-operation on the overall concept of the project to maximise its potential (in the form of consultancy), partake on the project web site, co-organiser and lector of the WS in Lorsch, project evaluation. For company details see Annex 5 White Rook profile.
- LONGPLAYER Trust, London, Great Britain:
- supplier of the Longplayer licence
- MERIDIAN, Olomouc, Czech Republic:
- web site creation
- Next suppliers will be e.g.:
- long distance transportation company, interpreters and translators, technical equipment hire, film documentation of the project etc.
Detailed description of the project activities
Animation of the virtual space of the Exposition of Time, November 2004 - May 2005
At the turning point of the year 200/2006, the reconstruction of the 3-storey classicist building (the future space of a stable Exposition of Time) in the Šternberk center will be completed. The building with the exhibition area of 1,572m2 will be ceremonially opened with the Exposition of Time. The architectonical study of the space design throughout the house for the purposes of the Exposition of Time initiation has been at disposal since 2001.
The exposition will be dealing with time, beginning at the ages when the Sun was worshipped not only as a source of light but when it became a beautiful natural time measuring instrument. Over millenniums people used to rely on the natural phenomena for the time measurement before they gradually developed various calendar systems, and additionally time measuring instruments, helping establish the fact that time started to have its precisely measured value. The Exposition of Time, thanks to its rich collections, will demonstrate the so ever fascinating development of chronometry, from the wheel, tower and portable clocks and watches up to professional ones, time measuring instruments for navigation purposes, demonstrations of the European horology up to the early times of the usage of electric power in chronometry, not forgetting the principles of nuclear clock - such great the range of the Exposition will be. The Exposition of Time wants to become a place sought by families with children and the young. It intends to draw a visitor into the game by a number of interactive exhibits and visual shows and decorations. Even for the youngest ones it will offer a chance to test their skills and fantasy in the form of games and entertaining exhibits.
To make this space available for filling up with a quality and reviewed exposition, a preparation of virtual animation of this space will supplement the Exposition of Time project. The main scenarists of the specialized part of the exposition together with their art advisors, through new technologies, will create 3D animation of the overall museum space, including the choice and placement of individual exhibits, design of supplementary museopedagogical, art and interactive elements.
This visualisation of the upcoming Exposition of Time utilizing the most modern technologies will therefore become a pioneer project in the sphere of the Czech museology and exhibition events. Subsequently it will be placed on the web site of the project as a supportive mean for the visitors of the museum to whom such visualization can offer much more clearer idea about the image and atmosphere of the whole exposition.
Target:
- With the utilization of the latest technologies to open access to the rich European cultural heritage - the European horology - to the wide public
- To increase quality of the upcoming Exposition via a thorough (virtual) preparation of the contents and art design of the Exposition
- To draw attention towards the new possibilities of museum and exhibition practices through modern technologies
Target group:
- Art and specialized guarantors of the project
- Specialists from the partner institutions in the sphere of museum and exhibition activities
- Wide spectrum of museum specialists in all partner countries (especially Central and Eastern Europe, where this way of exhibition work is not completely common)
- Students (museology, design, pedagogy)
Number of people:
Close circle of specialists: 20
Wider circle: 200
Anticipated results:
- Animated visualisation of the complex space design of the Exposition of time in electronic form (CD-ROM)
- New experience with modern ways of the exhibitions development
Activities of co-organizers:
- Participation on the preparation of the virtual animation of the Exposition of time
- Review of the virtual design of the Exposition of time
The touring part of the Exposition of Time with the topic "European horology", January 2005 - October 2005
The collection, which will be the subject of the Exposition of Time, consists mainly of the works by leading clock manufactures throughout Europe. This earlier greatly honored and valued craft has been gradually disappearing in Europe. For ages Šternberk used to be known for its tradition of the mechanical chronometer production that was, however, stopped in 2000 due to automation and digitalisation of this branch.
Within the touring exhibition we aim to point out this perishing, nevertheless at previous times significant European craft and its influence on several social/scientific branches (physics, astronomy, history, philosophy, biology, geography, and others). During this touring exhibition there will be shown examples of clocks whose design is characteristic of the horology production of different countries and regions of Europe (Schwarzwald, Southern Germany, Holland, England, some parts of France and Switzerland). Parts of the touring exhibition will become also themes for consideration ("The fluency of time for present generations and the generations 1,000 years ago."; "Is time a straight line, circle or a spiral?"; "The change of nature in the course of time."; "The cult of the Sun and its influence on the time measuring in various geographical spheres of the world."; etc.).
The unique European horology works are museum subjects of many European Museums of Clocks with which the cooperation on the preparation of the touring exhibition of the European horology (Uhrenmuseum Vienna, Furtwangen Germany) will be held as the demonstration of the size and complexity of this traditional branch.
Target:
- To introduce the traditional European craft perishing in the present times to the broad general public
- To open the topic of time and its perception by all generations
- To prepare space design of the exposition in individual places (selection of exhibits, panels), overall art design of the exposition, informative materials with individual graphical design with the stress on comprehensibility and visuality for children and the young, and also the informative value for the broad general public
Target group:
- Art and specialised advisors of the project
- Local artists in the co-organizing countries
- Residents from the co-organizing cities
- Tourists
Number of people
- Visitors of the touring exhibition: 4,500 - 5,000 (in each country 1,500 - 1,700)
- Specialized guarantors and advisors of the exhibition preparation: 20
Anticipated results
- Prepared 4-language exhibition with the topic of the common European cultural heritage - European horology comprising unnecessary museum pedagogical elements for an active work with the young
- Printed (entire) informative materials for the promotion of the touring exhibition and associated activities (posters, leaflets, invitation cards, a catalogue about the exhibition)
- Discussion with the general public and a workshop on the topic of time with children
Activities of co-organizers
- Participation on the preparation of the touring exhibition
- Specification of technical parameters in individual exhibition spaces
- Contribution of local artists to the exhibition in the form of exhibits created by all different techniques focused on time and clocks
- Insertion of the museum pedagogical elements into the touring exhibition according to the acquired experience from the workshop in Lorsch
Workshop "Museum Pedagogy In Time", January 2005
The museum pedagogy branch started to develop ungainly at the early 20th century and its boom broke out in the last decades, especially in Germany and Austria. It evolved mainly from the finding that a laic (a visitor of an exhibition) understands the topic of an exhibition and exposition only partially or not at all, and therefore it is important to present it in such a way to make it comprehensible for everyone. Relatively new methods such as architectonic and art design of an exhibition space, special display cases, clear and informatively sufficient texts and descriptions should help to reach this requirement. Not only completed findings are being presented to visitors but they themselves need to seek and gain them, they themselves must uncover a principle of a certain phenomenon based on an experiment; visitors are allowed to play here. People can remember much easier the things on whose discovery they participate, where they learn more by means of senses and where a game is included into this process.
For these and many other reasons there has arisen the need of meetings and exchange of experience with specialists who have been successfully unreeling museum pedagogy already long time. The workshop "Museum pedagogy In Time" will be based on this principle.
Because of the importance of a quality workshop contents, a 2-day preparatory meeting for the future lecturers of the workshop and the workshop organizers will take place in Lorsch already in November 2004. The chief of this preparatory meeting will be Mr Robin Clutterbuck (having a long-term experience with such activities) who will prepare the following together with other lecturers: a detailed workshop program, time schedule of individual reports, the way of selection of the workshop participants (restricted capacity), technical and material requirements. The workshop itself will be held in January 2005, it means with a sufficient time advance before the touring exhibition so as to enable integration of findings and experience from the workshop into the preparation phase of the exhibition.
Lecturers of this Workshop will be people with practical experience (from museums and other cultural institutions), further specialists in the theoretic regard (didacticionists, psychologists, museologists) and specialized consultants in PR for cultural institutions.
Invited participants will be representatives of cultural institutions in the field of exhibition activities from all partner towns, academics from the branch of pedagogy, museology, history and other social sciences.
Target:
- To open a wide and specialized discussion on the topic of utilization of museum pedagogical methods for the preparation of exhibitions and for cooperation with the educational system
- To pass practical experiences over on other workshop participants. (The attribution of museum to the educational process is often being omitted although it increases the visuality of teaching, connects theory and practice, vitalizes and animates stereotype teaching, positively affects the creativity of children)
Target group:
- Workshop lecturers
- Workshop participants
- Cultural institutions of partner countries dealing in exhibition activities which will be able to apply experiences and results from the Workshop
Number of people:
- Preparatory meeting of lecturers: 20
- Workshop: participants approx. 100, cultural institutions in the partner countries: 500
Anticipated results:
- Detailed content, time and personnel plan for the Workshop in Lorsch
- Improvement of the communication among educational institutions and exhibition sector
- Preparation of higher quality exhibitions suitable as a interactive supplement of the basic education of children and the young
- Strengthening of the position of museum as an essential and modern supplement in educating
- Use of the latest methods and specialized experience for an increase of quality and attraction of museum work
- Creation of an international net of specialists in the sphere of museum pedagogy, didactics, museology
Activities of co-organizers:
- Participation on the selection of the workshop lecturers from the field of museum pedagogy within their countries
- Promotion of the workshop among specialists in the field of museum pedagogy (distribution of the workshop invitation cards to selected cultural institutions and their representatives as participants of the workshop)
Associated program for the touring exhibition
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2.4. –30.4. 2005 |
Kungsbacka, Sweden |
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15.5. – 30.8.2005 |
Šternberk, Olomouc, Czech Republic |
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11.9. –
14.10.2005 |
Lorsch, Germany |
The purpose of this touring exhibition is not only to demonstrate the richness of the European cultural heritage but also to make use of the inspiring topic of time as a theme for discussion, seminars and also other various practical workshops for as broadest general public as possible. In so doing, in each country there will be formed a circle of people (specialists, applicants, academics, scientists, philosophers) who, in the frame of the thematic touring exhibition on time, will organize a number of various events with the stress on comprehensibility, noticeability and informative value for the general public.
Within the project we have already planned, for example, the following activities in Sweden: debate in the Space Observatory near the town of Kungsbacka concerning light years (designated for children and the young); worskhop for children with a trained horologist from Kungsbacka covering the topic of sundial and other different ways of time measurement, time management, various time periods; a discussion on the theme of "Who is old and who is young?", "Time and its power and authority.", "Is time a straight line or a circle?"; furthermore it will be an exhibition of works of the local artists concerning various techniques focused on time and clocks; cooperation with the library in the Cultural Center regarding the topic of children's book about time.
A remarkableness conducting the whole exhibition is an audio performance of a unique music composition called Longplayer, which is conceived the longest playing musical work in history (from 1999 to 2999). This musical composition mostly stimulates curiosity, spiritual and philosophical interest in the questions such as "time", "hurry" and "eternity". It is maintained by the Longplayer Trust, a registered charity of Great Britain. Eminent writers, philosophers, scientists, astrophysics and art consultants belong among the Longplayer trustees and they themselves will be the initiators and spokesmen at the discussions within the touring exhibition of the Exposition of Time.
Other associated activities will be smaller, practically oriented workshops for school juveniles taking place in each partner city during the touring exhibition. Within these workshops there will be applied and exploited the findings from the museum pedagogical seminar in Lorsch.
Target:
- To open the topic of time and its value within the meetings of specialists (philosophers, astrophysics, writers) with the broad general public in various European countries with a different cultural background
- To increase the visuality of the exhibited theme for children and the young and to arouse their creativity and interest in the values that the European history comprises
Target group & the number of people
- Children and the young in partner countries: 1,000
- Specialized public: 250
- General public: 2,000
Anticipated results:
- Open up the themes such as hurry, relaxation skills, value of time versus work and family, and others among people who are components of so called "consumer society" and who do not usually have enough time for such "interruptions and considerations"
- An attractive exhibition full of conducting activities, offering to its visitors space for games, considerations, gain of new stimulating information and self-creativity
Activities of co-organizers
- Selection of lecturers and spokespeople for the abovementioned activities
- Organization of conducting events in the place of the touring exhibition (personnel, space and material means)
- Promotion of these activities (schools, grammar schools, cultural institutions, the general public)
Promotion of the project, November 2004 - October 2005
The promotion of the project among the wide public will be carried out in the following way:
- Project web site (created by a cooperating firm Meridian - Czech Republic under the specialized supervision of Mr Clutterbuck of Great Britain) made in such a way to contain possibly the most recent news about at that time happening events, to create a platform for the exchange of opinions on the level of experts in the topic of museum pedagogy, space for exploitation of the results from the individual events and exchange of information among the project partners. The web site will be the foundation for the presentation of the future stable Exposition of Time in Šternberk - which means that it will also be functioning after the project's termination.
- Informative materials for the touring exhibition - the company Createam (see the company profile) who is responsible for their preparation is also the main idea leader of the preparation of the entire Exposition of Time. The promotional materials for the touring exhibition will be printed in 4 world language mutations (Czech, German, Swedish, English), including the catalogue for the exhibition, posters, leaflets and invitation cards.
- Screen documentary about the project's proceedings - overall meetings of the project team, preparation of the virtual animation of the Exposition of Time; the preparation of the touring exhibition itself and the workshop "Museum Pedagogy in Time" monitored by a team of junior film makers who will create an approx. 1-hour documentary about the project. The document will be processed in the form of television broadcasting and will be exercised as another form of the entire project's promotion to the broad general public.
- Own PR activities of the organizing countries - in each co-organizing country there is allocated one person responsible for promotion of the project in the local media (radio, newspaper, regional periodicals).
- Advertisements in the European cultural press
Target:
- To inform the European cultural public about this international cultural project of which they can be participants themselves
- To prepare interesting and comprehensible promotional materials for all age groups
- to inform the Czech culture subjects about this pilot project in the development sphere of museum pedagogy as an inspiration for organization of similar projects of cooperation
Target group & number of people:
- Visitors of the touring exhibition: 3,000 - 3,500
- General public interested in culture: 30,000
- The European cultural press, regional news coverage, journalists: 1,000
Anticipated results:
- Great interest in visiting of the touring exhibition
- Functioning, updated, modern web site with the latest elements of communication with public (3D animation of the Exposition of Time space)
- Establishment of a strong information foundations for the functioning of the future stable Exposition of Time in Šternberk
- Activation of the European public in terms of arousing their interest in the common European cultural heritage - horology
Activities of co-organizers
- Participate in the design of the web site as an essential part of the European project and to supply it with updated information, news (Sweden, Germany, Great Britain)
- PR in the co-organizing countries
- Assisting with translations of the informative materials
- Promotion of the project in the European cultural press
II.4 Who are the co-organisers that will be involved in the project?
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Names of
co-organisers at local or regional level |
Role of
co-organiser in the conception of the project |
Role of
co-organiser in implementing the project |
Financial
participation
(minimum 5%
of total eligible budget)
Indicate
amount in Euro |
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Names of
co-organisers at national level |
Role of
co-organiser in the conception of the project |
Role of
co-organiser in implementing the project |
Financial
participation
(minimum 5%
of total eligible budget)
Indicate
amount in Euro |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Names of
co-organisers in other countries eligible for participation in the Culture
2000 programme |
Role of
co-organiser in the conception of the project |
Role of
co-organiser in implementing the project |
Financial
participation
(minimum 5%
of total eligible budget)
Indicate
amount in Euro |
|
Kungsbacka, Sweden |
Concept of the Swedish part of
the touring exhibition and accompanying activities for wide public, partake
in the virtual animation of the Exposition of time, co-operation with the
education system (universities, schools), evaluation process |
Co-organiser of the WS in Lorsch
– procurement of Swedish lectors and participants of the WS, leading manager
of all accompanying activities of the touring exhibition in Sweden, Swedish
project portfolio maker, co-author of the project web site, evaluator of the
first half of the project |
10 730 |
|
Lorsch,
Germany |
Preparation, concept creation
and evaluation of the WS „Museopedagogy in time“, concept of the preparatory
meeting of lectors, participation on the touring exhibition creation |
Main organiser of the WS and the
preparatory meeting of the WS lectors, touring exhibition in Lorsch manager,
organiser of all accompanying activities, project web site co-author
|
10 730 |
II.5 Who are the partners that will be associated with the project?
|
Names of partners at local or
regional level |
|
Museum of Geography, Olomouc
Palacky University, Olomouc
Gymnasium Šternberk
Gallery Šternberk
The Olomouc region – President of the region
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Names of partners at national level |
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National Museum of Science and Technology, Praha
Moravian Regional Museum, section Children Museum, Brno
Createam Prague
Ministry of culture, Czech republic
Bohemica Gnostika
Cultural institutions which will participate on the lecturing as well
attendance of the Workshop in Lorsch (whole Czech republic)
|
|
Names of partners in other countries
eligible for participation in the Culture 2000 programme |
Uhrenmuseum Wien,
Austria
Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien,
Austria
White Rook Consultancy,
Devon,
Great Britain
Longplayer Trust,
London, Great Britain
City Furtwangen (Deutsches
Uhrenmuseum),
Germany
British
Museum, London,
Great Britain
Artist
House, Kungsbacka,
Sweden
Cultural institutions which will participate on the lecturing as well
attendance of the Workshop in Lorsch
(Germany, Austria, Sweden and
others)
|
II.6 Project implementation programme
Project starting date:Day: 25th month: October year: 2004
Project finishing date: Day: 23rd month: October year: 2005
Detailed timetable for implementation of the work programme:
1.1.
Month
|
Action(s) |
Anticipated costs in € |
|
October 2004 |
Internal preparatory meeting
of all Czech project members in Šternberk– experts and art guarantors for
the project |
|
|
Opening meeting in Šternberk of
all team members (category A) |
|
Project web site design by
Meridian and White Rook Consultancy |
|
Initiation of the project
documentation (film documentary) |
|
November 2004
|
Selection of exhibits for the
virtual animation of the Exposition of time by art guarantors (MG[i]
Olomouc, NMST[ii]
Prague) |
15 210 |
|
2 day preparatory meeting of the
workshop lecturers in Lorsch – program set-up; Leader R. Clutterbuck |
|
Graphic processing of the
informative materials for the WS (posters, invitation cards, programme) done
by Createam Prague |
|
Web site design of the project –
completion |
|
Distribution of the invitation
cards for the Workshop participants done by each co-organiser |
|
Film documentary |
|
Project promotion |
|
December 2004
|
|
|
|
Graphic design of the
informative materials for the touring exhibition (posters, leaflets,
invitation cards) and processing the WS programme; by Createam |
|
Project web site up-dating |
|
Project promotion
|
|
|
|
42 250 |
|
Preparation of the virtual space
of the Exposition of time - continuation |
|
Initiation of the preparation of
the touring exhibition in the context of the proposed (animated) space and
idealistic design of the Exposition of time – scenic design, specification
of exhibits |
|
Processing of information
materials for the touring exhibition, printing |
|
Summarization of the conclusions
from the Workshop in Lorsch, document processing |
|
Film documentary |
|
Up-date of the web site
–Workshop conclusions |
|
February 2005 |
Preparation of the virtual space
of the Exposition of time – specification of the space layout of all
exhibition rooms |
|
|
Continuing preparation of the
touring exhibition, cooperation with specialized consultants and
co-organizers (technical design of the space in the co-organisers exhibition
rooms) |
|
3 day visit to the UK
museums–museum-experts from Czech republic, Germany, Sweden |
|
Print and distribution of the
conclusions from the Workshop in Lorsch |
|
Distribution of promotional
materials concerning the touring exhibition to each of the co-organisers;
distribution to the wide public |
|
|
|
Up-date of the web site
|
|
Film documentary of the project |
|
|
Completion of the touring
exhibition preparation |
|
|
Preparation of the virtual space
of the Exposition of time - continuation |
|
Promotion of the project and
touring exhibition by local means (mainly in Kungsbacka) |
|
Preparation of the exhibition
rooms in Kungsbacka |
|
Technical preparation for a
subproject Longplayer (PC, sound system etc.) |
|
|
2nd April –
exhibition in Kungsbacka – ceremonial opening |
28 320 |
|
Ceremonial opening of the
Longplayer project – discussion with Kodwo Eshun, Jem Finer, seminar for
wide public |
|
Workshop with children (sun
clock, time management, changing of year seasons), Kungs. |
|
Reading for a broad laic-public
on the topic of light-years done in the co-operation with the Space
Observatory, Sweden |
|
Creation of an amateur film with
the topic of time (work with children), Kungsbacka |
|
Targeted promotion of the
exhibition and accompanying seminars in Šternberk |
|
|
|
Up-date of the project web site |
|
|
|
|
Clearing out the exhibition
spaces, exhibition transport to the Czech Republic |
|
|
Preparation of the exhibition
rooms in Sternberk |
|
Evaluation of the Swedish part
of the exhibition (number of visitors, satisfaction, recommendations,
comments) |
|
1-day meeting of main project
co-organizers and partners in order to evaluate the so far existing
activities – distribution of the results from the exhibition in Kungsbacka
to the project team + the European cultural press; preparation for the
future project development after gaining an experience at the exhibition in
Kungsbacca.
Commentary on the virtual space
animation of the Exposition of time by experts, partners, co-organisers;
proposals for any improvement |
|
|
|
Ceremonial opening of the
Longplayer – discussion, seminar on the project |
|
|
|
Workshop with children –
application of the results from the Workshop in Lorsch; invited lecturers |
|
Film documentary of the project |
|
Promotion of the exhibition and
seminars |
II.7 Project location(s):
- The location of overwhelming activities will be in Šternberk, Czech republic, as it is applicant (main organiser) residency.
- The next two locations will be obviously Lorsch (Gemany) and Kungsbacka (Sweden) as there will happen big number of activities (touring exhibition, accompanying activities, workshop etc.).
- Further there will be an excursion to British museums, which will happen mainly in London.
- Olomouc, Czech Republic, will also become one of the project locations.
- Prague, Czech Republic, belongs to the next locations, because it is the registered office of Createam (the art expert of the Exposition of time) and National Museum of Science and Technology.
- The next partner's workplace is Vienna, Austria, where some meetings concerning the preparation of the touring exhibition will take place.
II.8
| Estimated total cost of the project: | € 210 849,18 |
| Commission grant requested: | € 93 803,18 |
| Other sources of funding already secured: | € 0 |
| Self-financing by the applicant organisation (project leader): | € 85 836 |
| Financial contributions by each of the co-organisers: | € 21 459 |
| Income generated by the project: | € 9750 |
