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Press Kit
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Abteilungsdirektorin Kommunikation
Barbara Wolf
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Berlin
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Presse‐ und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Daniela Lange
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www.dhm.de
Press Release
June
Europe and the Sea An exhibition by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation with the Jean Monnet Chair of European History at the University of Cologne
June – 6 January
These days, many Europeans are hardly aware that Europe is a maritime continent in geographical terms. Bordered by two oceans and four seas along almost , kilometres of coastline, Europe has proportionally more contact with the sea than does any other continent. Yet the sea plays hardly any part in most people s daily lives and if they do think of it at all, it is as a holiday destination or a border region. Nevertheless, the sea is once again a crucial factor in the issues facing us today. For one thing, millions of people fleeing war, oppression, or poverty need to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. For another, advances in the exploitation of marine resources are already beginning to change the way we Europeans live. Europe and the Sea makes us realise just how profoundly the sea has shaped the development and identity of the continent and how it continues to do so today. The exhibition opens at the Deutsches Historisches Museum on Wednesday, June .
This is the first special exhibition to observe the continent of Europe from the direction of the sea. Here, the Deutsches Historisches Museum explores , years of maritime cultural history from multinational perspectives, setting sail from key European port cities to chart the course of developments from the classical founding myth of Europa to the present day.
The exhibition offers an overview of the many and varied transformations that the sea has wrought in Europe since the days of Antiquity. In doing so, it reveals the global relationships of interdependence and interaction that emerged in the course of exploring and opening up the oceans and seas. It becomes clear that the command of the sea was a key factor in European power politics for centuries on end. Case studies cast light on the naval supremacy of the Venetian Republic, the expansionism of the Iberian kingdoms, the rise of the Netherlands as a shipbuilding nation, the transatlantic slave trade, and British dominance of the world economy, as well as several topics of current importance. Occupying , square metres, the exhibition presents a panorama of different countries and eras across Europe – a continent whose culture, global outlook and understanding of itself have been fundamentally shaped through exchange with other parts of the world.
Departure for New Worlds
Spread over two floors, the exhibition presents a total of historic and contemporary cultural exhibits lent by leading institutions and selected from the
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museum s own collection, bringing together economic, political, social, and cultural perspectives in a maritime survey of unprecedented breadth. The ambivalent role of the sea is cast into sharp relief. On the one hand, it served as a connecting element that enabled the European powers to engage in far-reaching transnational interaction, turning the world s second smallest continent into a global player. A dense network of maritime trade and transport routes provided the conditions necessary for the global transport of goods and raw materials, information and ideas, people and moral concepts. On the other hand, European expansion had consequences for the inhabitants of other continents too. For many of them, the arrival of Europeans meant exploitation, violence, racism, and oppression. In the largest section of the exhibition, original objects such as the chronicle written by Pierre Bontier and Jean le Verrier, The Conquest and the Conquerors of the Canary Islands and the layout of the slave ship Marie-Séraphique show that political power play, the pursuit of economic dominance, and colonial intervention almost always went hand in hand.
From a Continent of Emigration to a Continent of Immigration
For centuries, the oceans were regarded as the natural borders of the continents, until advances in technology finally transformed them into heavily used transit spaces. Between and alone, million people from all over Europe migrated overseas in search of a new life with better prospects. At present, coastlines make up two-thirds of the European Union s outer borders, which are increasingly becoming barriers as member countries attempt to seal them. In historical terms, migration is a perennial phenomenon. People flee their homes nowadays for the same reasons as they always have: war, poverty, lack of prospects, political oppression, and religious persecution. The exhibition vividly illustrates Europe s development from a continent of net emigration in the th century to a continent of net immigration in the th and st centuries. The focus here lies on the passage by ship, with its attendant dangers, as the crucial act of migration. The circumstances are shown to be far more dangerous now than what people had to face in the th century. By , over , migrants had drowned in the Mediterranean.
The Exploration of the World s Oceans: Use and Over-use
Another issue of greater concern than ever before is what we are doing to marine ecosystems. For thousands of years, the inhabitants of Europe have been catching fish, as illustrated by exhibits such as Marcus Élieser Bloch s drawings and wet-
prepared specimens. The relatively recent rise to importance of crude oil and natural gas is now being followed by raw material sources such as cobalt crusts, manganese nodules, and methane hydrates, which were discovered within the last few decades. Overfishing, maritime disasters, and litter threaten not only the
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future of the oceans, but also the global climate and the overall ecological equilibrium. Scientists estimate that by , the oceans will contain more plastic than fish. As the available resources dwindle, oceanographers are exploring the deep sea in search of solutions for use in the future. Exhibits of recent origin, such as the plastic animal figures called Friendly Floatees, offer a striking reminder that even the study of ocean garbage can yield important information about aspects of marine ecology – in that particular case, the world s ocean currents.
The Invention of the Beach Holiday
Despite such problems, for most people the sea is still a place that both awakens longings and encourages relaxation. In the th century, Europeans discovered the aesthetic and therapeutic qualities of the sea. The ocean came to be seen less as an intimidating natural force and more as the epitome of the beautiful and the sublime , as well as a place of healing and recuperation. The European nobility
travelled to take spa treatments and socialise in newly created sea bathing establishments, starting with Brighton and other British seaside towns. Resorts were soon springing up along the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts, followed some years later by the rivieras of southern Europe. The custom of taking a summer holiday by the sea each year spread rapidly among the middle classes. As people s perceptions of the sea continued to change, artists such as Carl Gustav Carus and Max Liebermann began to paint coastal landscapes and seaside scenes as subjects in their own right. Once a place had been discovered by artists, it was likely to start attracting other paying guests before long. The development of coastal regions to cater for visitors ultimately led, in the late twentieth century, to the era of global mass tourism.
The exhibition is largely accessible for disabled visitors and offers a range of inclusive features. As well as texts in German and English, the main content is presented in Braille and Simple German, as well as sign-language videos. Each subject is introduced interactively at one of the thirteen Inclusive Communication Stations.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, which is published in separate
German and English editions (448 pages, 415 illustrations, 35 €, hardcover with dust jacket).
The exhibition topics are explored further in a high-quality programme of events.
The exhibition has been created by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in
cooperation with the Jean Monnet Chair of European History at the University of
Cologne, and with the kind support of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Director of Communications
Barbara Wolf
Unter den Linden
Berlin
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Press Officer
Daniela Lange
Unter den Linden
Berlin
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www.dhm.de
Europe and the Sea
An exhibition by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in partnership with the Jean Monnet Chair for European History at the University of Cologne.
Exhibition Texts
Ancient Foundations. The Port of Piraeus
At first, people in Greece and Asia Minor had a distanced relationship to the sea. In the Odyssey, the poet Homer portrays the sea as a fearsome haunt of gods and de-mons. On his voyage, the epic s hero, Odysseus, has to confront fantastic sea mon-sters such as Scylla and Charybdis.
The appropriation of the sea began in the eighth century B.C. as the Greeks devel-oped a new kind of settlement, the polis, and established colonies across the Medi-terranean region. Greek trading bases sprang up along the coasts of the Mediterra-nean Sea and the Black Sea. Foremost among them was Piraeus, the port of Athens. Athenian currency, weights and measures, and Attic commercial law were adopted by every member state of the Delian League.
The Romans followed the Greeks example and used the Mediterranean as the foun-dation on which to build an empire spanning the known world. For over three hun-dred years, they dominated the ancient world via the Mediterranean, which they called mare nostrum, meaning our sea .
Command of the Sea. The Port of Venice
Command of the sea has always been a key factor in European power politics. Wars
that influenced the course of world history were fought on the seas; and commercial
empires were established by those that controlled the seas, allowing even small
countries to acquire great political power.
The Republic of Venice, from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, was the prototype
of the modern maritime power. Dubbed a city in the sea and a sea state , Venice
had a unique connection to the sea, and maritime trade became its greatest source
of income. To safeguard its commercial activities, Venice created a navy that was
unrivalled in all of Europe. It also established a system of bases to control sea routes,
an approach later copied by all the great maritime powers.
Whether territorial claims could be extended to the sea was hotly debated from the
early seventeenth century onwards. The United Nations Convention on the Law of
the Sea has provided binding regulations on this issue since 1982.
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Coastal Trade. The Port of Gdańsk
In northern medieval Europe, the regions of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to-gether formed a large trading area. Major trade routes ran from east to west, con-necting Russia with western European markets. In the thirteenth century, several merchant towns joined forces and formed a trading network called the Hanseatic League.
About towns along the Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts belonged to the net-work, which existed officially until . Local headquarters were established in the cities of Bruges, Bergen, London, Novgorod and Danzig now Gdańsk . Starting in the fourteenth century, Danzig, situated on the southern Baltic Sea coast, took on an important role in European coastal trade.
In the s, a medieval shipwreck was discovered in the Bay of Gdańsk. It was dubbed the Copper Ship because of its cargo. Merchandise typical of that traded by the Hanseatic League in the fifteenth century, including copper plates, iron bars and wooden planks, was found on board.
Expansion. The Port of Seville
Europe s discovery and conquest of new worlds propelled it into a new age. This period of expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries provided European na-tions with new room to manoeuvre, both economically and politically. What is more, the expeditions they undertook fundamentally changed their understanding of the world and of themselves.
The principal players in the early phase of expansion were Portugal and Spain. They divided up the world between them in the Treaty of Tordesillas .Most of the new world to the west of the Atlantic went to Spain. Spain s first step as a colonial
power was to conquer the Canary Islands – , which served as a testing ground for its conquest of the Americas. Spain s main gateway to the new world was the port of Seville, in southern Spain.
It was not just Europe that felt the profound consequences of overseas expansion. For the inhabitants of discovered lands, the arrival of the Europeans mainly meant violence, oppression, exploitation and death.
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Missionary Work and Cultural Exchange with East Asia. The Port of Lisbon
European expansion in the Americas and East Asia was accompanied by a significant phenomenon: cultural exchange. European explorers changed the worlds that they encountered or conquered, besides which they brought new foods, consumer goods and cultural practices back to Europe.
Voyages to the East departed from the port of Lisbon, the capital of the Kingdom of Portugal. The seafarers objective was to trade in spices and spread Christianity. In the sixteenth century, Portugal built up a network of important trading and military bases from East Africa to Japan – the backbone of the Estado da India State of In-dia .
The Jesuit missionaries to China also set out from Lisbon. They studied Asian lan-guages and modes of thought while introducing their knowledge of geography and astronomy. Their embrace of foreign cultures caused offence in Europe. Asian inno-vations were adopted nonetheless: not only did tea, gunpowder and porcelain come here from China, but also paper money, noodles, ice cream and toilet paper.
Shipbuilding and Seafaring. The Port of Amsterdam
The Dutch were a major force in European shipbuilding and seafaring in the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries. Their profitable overseas trade required large ship-yards for building cargo ships, and Amsterdam became the centre of shipbuilding in Europe.
The Dutch also gained a reputation as outstanding mariners and cartographers. They charted the seas and coastal areas, recording the results in maritime guides and atlases. Continual advances in the technology of navigational instruments made seafaring both easier and safer.
Life aboard sailing ships in the eighteenth century was very demanding for sailors. A selection of finds from shipwrecks illustrate how they spent their days and what their living conditions were like.
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Slave Trade. The Port of Nantes
Over the course of European expansion, and well into the nineteenth century, Euro-peans enslaved over million people from Africa and sold them in the Americas and the Caribbean. There, they were forced to work on cotton and sugar planta-tions. The great wealth of the French port city of Nantes was based on its trade in enslaved people, which itself rested on racist attitudes.
The transatlantic slave trade was usually triangular . Ships started from Nantes, loaded with guns, brandy or printed cloth. Traders would use these wares to buy enslaved people on the west African coast. Despite their resistance and by means of great violence, they were carried across the Atlantic and sold in exchange for sug-ar and other products. Those profits were used by traders to equip new slave ships.
In the late eighteenth century, abolitionist movements demanding an end to slavery emerged in Europe and North America. France abolished the slave trade in . Traders from Nantes nevertheless illegally continued to trade in enslaved people until .
Global Economy. The Port of London
Until the late eighteenth century, the import of raw materials from overseas was a key element of the European economy. In the nineteenth century, Great Britain, with its seaborne empire , was the driving force behind global interconnection. A widespread network of maritime bases gave it the means to control global trade routes. The invention of the steam engine revolutionized the British and other Euro-pean economies. To handle the growing quantity and variety of merchandise, the docklands were built on vast areas in the port of London. They served as a model for other ports such as Hamburg.
Great Britain also set new standards in the financial sector. International corpora-tions were formed and shares in them were sold to fund the construction of large ships such as the GREAT EASTERN and infrastructure such as the Suez Canal.
The first transatlantic cable, laid in , was the beginning of a communications network that now links whole continents. Agreement on World Time, based on the Greenwich meridian, and the later standardization of shipping containers were cru-cial in synchronizing and integrating the global economy.
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Migration. The Port of Bremerhaven
Until the nineteenth century, the sea was a virtually impassable barrier for people who wanted to leave their homes. It was not until technical advances in shipbuilding that the oceans came to be bridges between the continents.
Between and , millions of Europeans emigrated across the Atlantic, hop-ing for better living and working conditions or trying to escape political or religious persecution. Most of them went to North America.
Bremerhaven, founded at the mouth of the Weser River in , was an important hub for migration out of Europe. Steerage passengers travelling on ships that left from its port worried that they might not survive and routinely suffered from sea-sickness, hunger and thirst.
After the two world wars, Europe evolved from a continent of emigrants to one of immigrants. As European colonies gained their independence, many former coloni-al subjects migrated to the mother countries , for example Great Britain. For sev-eral years, people from Africa and Asia have been making their way to Europe, seek-ing to flee poverty, war and terror.
Use and Overuse. The Port of Bergen
The seas and oceans contain an abundance of resources. Primary among them is fish, which for hundreds of years provided an important alternative to meat on fast days. Stockfish in particular – a speciality of the Norwegian town of Bergen – was exported to many countries throughout Europe.
Fossil fuels petroleum and natural gas became increasingly important over the course of the twentieth century. The seas of Europe were explored in the hope of finding offshore reserves. On 4 December 969, the first large combined oil and gas field was found in Norwegian waters. It made Norway one of the richest countries in the world.
The exploitation of natural maritime resources and continual prospecting for new
kinds of mineral deposits have serious consequences for the maritime ecosystem.
Large amounts of plastic waste are doing long-term damage to the waters and the
life they contain, and are testing the seas and oceans to their limits.
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Maritime Research. The Port of Kiel
The oceans cover more than percent of the Earth s surface. Advances in technol-ogy have allowed people to reach ever greater depths, to bring life forms and sea-bed samples back to the surface and to gain a better understanding of the sea.
Initially, marine research was motivated largely by interest, both commercial and scientific, in the creatures of the sea. Specific studies began appearing in the eight-eenth century. Today, modern ichthyology is traced back to the work of Marcus Élieser Bloch – , a doctor and naturalist.
A prime example of early scientific research voyages is the German Atlantic Expedi-tion, which systematically studied and surveyed the South Atlantic between and .
Current marine research tackles questions concerning the role of the oceans in cli-mate change and the effects of human activity on the oceans. The future of marine research lies in continuous long-term measurement, carried out by instruments in permanently installed deep-sea observatories.
Tourism. The Port of Brighton
The seaside holiday is a European invention. In the Age of Enlightenment, during the eighteenth-century, people s perception of nature changed. They began to see the sea as a place of beauty and recreation. In Richard Russell, a British doctor, published the first description of the medicinal effects of seawater on all kinds of ailment.
Russell practiced on the south coast of England in Brighton, which grew into a fash-ionable seaside spa, patronized by the nobility. With its pier and elegant seafront promenade, Brighton was taken as a model for spas established on the Baltic and North Sea coasts of continental Europe.
By around , the middle class had taken over the seaside. On the beach, more casual modes of behavior evolved. Countless resorts developed on the Mediterrane-an as well. A new, exclusive type of holiday was devised: the cruise.
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The increasing availability of air travel brought the countries of Europe – and later the whole world – closer to each other. In the s, cheap charter flights and pack-age tours finally enabled ordinary people to afford a holiday by the sea.
Changes in Mentality. The Sea and the Beach as Subjects in Painting
As the appreciation of nature grew, from the eighteenth century onwards, the sea came to epitomize the sublime . People discovered the beach and the seaside not only as recreational areas, but also as inspiration for paintings.
Maritime subjects had long been part of Europe s artistic tradition, especially scenes of naval battles, portraits of ships, and views of ports or harbors. The sea and the coast, however, had usually been no more than a backdrop. In the nineteenth century, artists became aware of the sea and the beach as subjects in their own right.
This was closely linked to the popularity of open-air painting. Increasing industriali-zation and urban growth led painters to move to rural areas. Artists seeking to work in the open air would often settle in the same place, forming colonies in quiet fishing villages or on remote islands.
Once a place had been discovered by artists, it was likely to be developed for tour-ism before long. Around , in the heyday of spa holidays, tourism itself became a theme of art, in paintings that featured holidaymakers bathing, strolling, or enjoying various other activities.
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Abteilungsdirektorin Kommunikation
Barbara Wolf
Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin
T +49 30 20304-110
F +49 30 20304-152
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Daniela Lange
Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin
T +49 30 20304-410
F +49 30 20304-412
www.dhm.de
Europe and the Sea An exhibition by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation with the Jean Monnet Chair in European History at the University of Cologne
Accompanying Events:
Panel Discussions
Monday, 03 September 2018, 6 p.m., Zeughauskino
Between Freedom and Frontex
The Sea as a Bridge and Barrier I
A panel discussion organised by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation
with the Allianz Cultural Foundation with Jakob Berndt, SOS MEDITERRANEE; Dr. Itamar Mann, University of Haifa; Maxi Obexer, author and playwright, and others.
Chaired by: Esra Küçük, Managing Director of the Allianz Cultural Foundation
Register at: events.dhm.de
Monday, 29 October 2018, 6 p.m., Zeughauskino
Who Does the Sea Belong To?
The Sea as an Arena for Territorial and Trading Interests
Panel Discussions
With Irina Haesler, German Shipowners Association (VDR); Prof. Dr. Michael Kempe,
Leibniz Research Centre at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences/Leibniz Archive at
the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover; Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß,
Institute of Legal Policy (IRP) at the University of Trier; Dr. Patricia Schneider,
Institute of Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH),
and others
Chaired by: tbc
Register at: events.dhm.de
Thursday, 08 November 2018, 6 p.m., Schlüterhof The Use of the Seas
The Sea as a Resource
A panel discussion organised by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation
with the Representation of the State of Schleswig-Holstein With Prof. Dr. Anita Engels, Centre for Globalisation and Governance at the University of Hamburg; Jochen Flasbarth, Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety; Nikolaus Gelpke, Chief Editor of mare: Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and others
Chaired by: Dirk Steffens, ZDF
Register at: events.dhm.de
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Monday, 10 December 2018, 6 p.m., Zeughauskino
Eurotopia: Visions of the Future for Europe
The Sea as a Bridge and Barrier II
A panel discussion organised by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation
with the Allianz Cultural Foundation
With Pauline Endres de Oliveira, Amnesty International Germany; Ruben
Neugebauer, Peng! artists collective/Sea Watch e.V.; Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer,
Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of
Osnabrück, and others
Chaired by: Esra Küçük, Managing Director of the Allianz Cultural Foundation
Register at: events.dhm.de
Artist in Conversation
Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 6 p.m., exhibition hall The Sea as Place of Yearning and Imagination
Jochen Hein, artist, in conversation with Prof. Dr. Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen,
West Coast Art Museum, Föhr
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Lectures
Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 6 p.m., auditorium
On the Importance of the Sea in European History
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Elvert, University of Cologne
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Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 6 p.m., auditorium World Travel Time. Humboldt, Chamisso and the Globalisation of the Sea
Prof. Dr. Walter Erhart, Christine Peters and Monika Sproll, University of
Bielefeld
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Guided Tours By the Curators
Wednesday 27 June 2018, 6 p.m., exhibition hall Dorlis Blume
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Wednesday 18 July 2018, 6 p.m., exhibition hall Thomas Eisentraut
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Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 6 p.m., exhibition hall Christiana Brennecke and Ursula Breymayer
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Guided Tours
4 € plus admission fee
Guided Tours in German
Tue + Thur + Sat 2 p.m. Wed + Fri + Sun 4 p.m.
Wednesday, 30 October 2018, 12 a.m. + 2 p.m., free of charge Friday, 09 November 2018, 2 p.m., free of charge Tuesday, 25 December 2018, 4 p.m. Wednesday, 26 December 2018, 2 p.m. Tuesday, 01 January 2019, 4 p.m.
Guided Tours in English
Mondays, 1 p.m. Wednesday, 03 October 2018, 1 p.m., free of charge
Wednesday, 26 December 2018, 12 a.m.
World Refugee Day, admission free
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
12 a.m., French
1 p.m., German
2 p.m., English
3 p.m., Spanish
4 p.m., Turkish
Audio guide
German, English
3 € plus admission fee
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Activities for Children and Families
Seamen's Yarns
Age 8 and older
2 € plus admission fee (free admission up to 18 years)
18 € Family ticket
Sundays on 24/06, 08/07, 22/07, 05/08, 19/08, 02/09, 16/09, 30/09, 14/10,
28/10, 11/11, 25/11, 30/12
During school holidays: Mon + Fri 2 p.m., Tue + Thur 11 a.m.
Audio guide for children
German, English
3 €, family price 6 € (max. 4 devices for 2 adults and 2 children) plus admission fee
Booklet for children
Seamen's Yarns
Set out on your own voyage through the exhibition (only in German)
Tours for groups
Guided tours for groups, available in German, English, French, Russian,
Spanish and Turkish.
75 € plus admission fee
Activities for School Classes
Guided tours for the third grade upwards
1 €, 60 minutes
History workshops
2 €, 150 minutes
Secondary level I (fifth grade)
Of Nets and Networks. The Sea and the Globalisation of the World
Secondary level II (twelfth grade)
Ships, Saccharum, Sextants – The Maritime Exploration of the World, 15th
to 21st Century
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Activities and Access for Disabled Visitors
Accessibility and Inclusive Features
The exhibition can be experienced with several senses – not only sight and
hearing, but also touch. It is designed to allow disabled (in particular
wheelchair) access in most areas. The exhibition texts are all provided in both
German and English. The main texts are also available in Braille and in large
print (black on white and white on black) for the blind and visually impaired, in
Simple German for people with learning difficulties, and in German Sign
Language for the deaf. The different kinds of text are clearly identified in each
case. The exhibits are shown at different heights; most of the display cases
are shaped to allow close viewing by wheelchair users. The colour scheme
uses contrast to improve visibility.
Guided tours for blind and visually impaired visitors
Fridays on 06/07, 03/08, 07/09, 05/10, 02/11, 07/12, 04/01, 3 p.m.
Guided tours with translation into German Sign Language
Fridays on 13/07, 10/08, 14/09, 12/10, 09/11, 14/12, 3 p.m.
Guided tours in Simple German
Fridays on 15/06, 20/07, 17/08, 21/09, 19/10, 16/11, 21/12, 3 p.m.
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Director of Communications
Barbara Wolf
Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin
T +49 30 20304-110
F +49 30 20304-152
Press Officer
Daniela Lange
Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin
T +49 30 20304-410
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www.dhm.de
Europe and the Sea An exhibition by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation with the Jean
Monnet Chair in European History at the University of Cologne
Dates and Facts
Venue Deutsches Historisches Museum,
basement and ground floor exhibition halls
Duration 13 June 2018 to 6 January 2019
Opening hours 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily
Admission Free admission up to age 18
Day ticket 8 €, concessions 4 €
Information
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Unter den Linden 2 | 10117 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 20304-0 | E-mail: [email protected]
Internet www.dhm.de/ausstellungen
Exhibition floor area 1500 m², basement and ground floor exhibition
halls
Exhibition size approx. 400 exhibits
President Raphael Gross
Head of Exhibitions Ulrike Kretzschmar
Head of Project Dorlis Blume
Curators Dorlis Blume, Christiana Brennecke, Ursula
Breymayer, Thomas Eisentraut
Scientific Advisor Werner Konitzer
Idea Jürgen Elvert
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Project Assistant Kerstin Kemner
Exhibition design Nadine Rasche, Werner Schulte
Publication Europe and the Sea
Edited by Dorlis Blume, Christiana Brennecke,
Ursula Breymayer and Thomas Eisentraut for
the Deutsches Historisches Museum
Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich
448 pages, 415 illustrations
Hardcover, clothbound, with dust jacket
ISBN 978-3-86402-210-7
35.00 €
Patrons Funded with a grant from the Federal
Government Commissioner for Culture and the
Media
Kindly supported by the Kingdom of the
Netherlands
Media partners Arte, FluxFM, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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Europe and the sea
An exhibition by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in partnership with the Jean Monnet Chair for European History at the University of Cologne.
Short biographies curators
Dorlis Blume, M.A. Head of Special Exhibitions and Projects, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Head of Project and Curator Europe and the Sea
Dr. Christiana Brennecke
Historian, Berlin
Curator Europe and the Sea
Ursula Breymayer, M.A. Free Curator of Exhibitions, Cultural Historian, Berlin
Curator Europe and the Sea
Thomas Eisentraut, M.A. Historian, Berlin
Curator Europe and the Sea
PRESSIMAGES
Europe and the Sea
13th June 2018 to 6th January 2019
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complete indication of the source.
Europa on the bull, 500–475 B.C.© bpk / Antikensammlung, SMB / Johannes Laurentius
Kopf des Odysseus, Kopie nach hellenistischem Original,um 250 n. Chr.© Kunst- und Kulturzentrum (KuK) der StädteRegion Aachen, Monschau
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Aldo Baradel, model of the last Bucentaur, 1972–1976© Aldo Baradel CollectionPhoto: Gianfranco Munerotto
3 Idol of Tara, pre-Hispanic era© El Museo Canario, Las Palmas
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View of Seville, c. 1600, unknown Spanish artist© Museo Nacional del PradoPlease note that the layout must be sent to the lender for approval before publication.
Abraham Storck, Tsar Peter the Great on board his yacht, heading toward the frigate Pieter en Paul, c. 1698© Amsterdam Museum
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7 Ship‘s biscuit (hard tack), 13 April 1784© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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Pierre Bontier and Jean le Verrier, chronicle: Conquête et lesConquérants des Iles Canaries (The conquest and theconquerors of the Canary Islands), c. 1405© The British Library Board, Egerton 2709, f.2.
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Europe and the Sea
13th June 2018 to 6th January 2019
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Richard Fleischhut, Emigrants aboard the ocean liner Bremen II, 1909 © Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
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Antonie Volkmar, Emigrants‘ Farewell, 1860© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Mobile phone carried by MohammedEbrahimi as a refugee, c. 2014© Mohammed Ebrahimi, Berlin
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Jean -René Lhermitte, Layout, profile and transactions of theslave ship Marie-Séraphique, c. 1770© Château des ducs de Bretagne – Musée d’histoire de Nantes
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PRESSIMAGES
Europe and the Sea
13th June 2018 to 6th January 2019
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Cod hung up to dry, to make stockfish, 1924© Norwegian Fisheries Museum, Museum Vest, Photo: Anders B. Wilse
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Friendly Floatees © Sitka/ Alaska, Dean OrbisonPhoto: Deutsches Historisches Museum
15 Deep-sea side-scan sonar for use at depths down to 6,000 m, after 1980© GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Photo: Linda Plagmann
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Souvenir piece of the first transatlantic cable, 1858© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
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PRESSIMAGES
Europe and the Sea
13th June 2018 to 6th January 2019
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Max Liebermann, Boys Bathing, 1902© Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr
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Double-page spread from the June 1938 issue of die neue linie, with a view of the KdF Sea Baths of Prora on Rügen,Gerda Rotermund (illustration), 1938© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
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Carl Gustav Carus, Breaking Waves on Rügen, 1819© bpk | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | Elke Estel
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Poster issued by the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company advertising „exceptionally inexpensive Nordic voya-ges in summer 1928“, 1928© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
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PRESSIMAGES
Europe and the Sea
13th June 2018 to 6th January 2019
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North Sea© Jochen Hein
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