Online Collection
26,000 times inspiration
What is on display in the museum comprises only a fraction of the actual collection. Online, you can discover a selection of around 26,000 of the more than 600,000 objects in the collection and freely reuse many of the digitised objects. Some of them have already been the inspiration for novels, models for new works of art, DIY or school projects. The information and images published online also form the basis for scientific research and illustrate the diversity of MK&G's collection areas. We have redesigned the offer according to the wishes of the users. Find your favourite objects and new discoveries (think cat content!).
Design Lab
Touch it, try it, unscrew it ...
What is the difference between a miswak root and a plastic toothbrush with multiple ergonomic bends? One is a purely natural product and the oldest toothbrush in the world. The other is an invention of marketing strategists. In our refurbished design lab, everyday products are waiting to be used, as are the many different types of seating, most of which have already made design history. Everything can and should be touched and tested. Bookable offers are available from the Museumsdienst Hamburg:
“Photo: Hans Hansen”: Cleaning door handles
Following a tour of the exhibition, participants engage in a detailed examination of door handles, which Hans Hansen also photographed. The focus is on seeing versus touching. The Design Lab offers a programme in which the eye and the hand are both involved in the learning process.
“Photo: Hans Hansen”: Sorting images
After a tour of the exhibition, participants explore the fundamentals of design in the Design Lab by creating their own collages. They select clippings from magazines and arrange them into images. Fragments give rise to new perspectives on material, form and colour.
“Photo: Hans Hansen”: Light Play
In the exhibition, participants discuss Hans Hansen’s use of light, shadow and colour in his photographs. In the Design Lab, they experiment for themselves: they try out prisms and lenses, play with light and shadow, mix colours using different coloured torches and use a lightbox to photographically showcase design objects.
Digital Storytelling
A bowl tells its story
As part of a project to make the European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Collection digitally accessible, new experimental ways of mediation were explored with the support of the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS. Using the example of an iconic bowl from the majolica service of Isabella d'Este, various types of digital storytelling were created: an online exhibition as scrollytelling via Google Arts & Culture, object study in 3D and AR/VR via Sketchfab, an interactive chat using artificial intelligence and an AI-generated podcast.
Google Arts & CultureThe bowl in 3DChatbot
AI podcast:
Art Nouveau Web Journal
Exciting Years. In the Footsteps of the Visionaries
In the web journal “Exciting Years. In the Footsteps of the Visionaries” (only available in German) you accompany the fictional reporter Christian Heller during his encounters with real artists, visionaries, and reformers. In his travel diary he draws a lively picture of the Art Nouveau epoch. Numerous original photos and documents provide insights into studios, workshops and residential buildings of the leading actors. From Hamburg via Paris and Vienna to Glasgow and Ascona – get together with Christian Heller! In 2018, the web journal is awarded with the Grimme Online Award.
MK&G Studio
DIY-Ideas
At “MK&G Studio”, we present selected projects of the educational work at MK&G and share “Do it yourself!“ craft ideas and tutorials with the MK&G Collection Online. It is important for us to offer our visitors inspiring and interesting accesses to our collections and special exhibitions. We want them to participate in creative processes, encourage them to form their own opinions and share them with others. As heterogeneous as our audience is, as varied as possible we want to make the program, in an appealing and understandable language. Numerous projects are being developed in close collaboration with creatives, teachers and various NGOs.
App
Musical Instruments
The free multi-media catalog app “MK&G Musical Instruments” presents 100 highlights of the world-famous collection of the MK&G. All instruments are shown in high-resolution photos. The instruments are described and the historical development of individual instrument types as well as the cultural-historical context are presented.
Projects
at MK&G
In addition to special exhibitions, the MK&G also initiates, realises and presents a variety of projects - out of research interest, to review and further develop museum practice and to enable new access to the collection.
Booklets
