In our interview series we speak with the people and teams that have made this exhibition possible through their ideas and expertise. In this interview, the exhibition designer Hans Hagemeister talks about the design concept and its realisation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201eln the \u201cgames\u201d area we cite the square pattern of a chess board, which is reflected in the floor and the design of the exhibition elements. In this way we expand the painting into the room.\u201c<\/em> What had to be taken into account in designing the children\u2019s exhibition? How did this kind of exhibition differ from previous DHM exhibitions?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibition is supposed to be appealing and inviting above all for children and to give them an easy access to the topics treated in the exhibition. That\u2019s why alongside some original objects there are many hands-on stations where the visitors can deal with the historical questions and their relation to today\u2019s world in a sensory and playful way. These include, for example, puzzles, dice games, games of skill, and matching games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What basic principle do you follow in your design concept? What is the central theme?<\/strong> We placed the \u201cPicture of the Month\u201d at the centre of the exhibition. Several thematic areas are located around the painting. For each of these themes there is a design that cites a scene in the painting and refers to the respective topic. For example, there is a blue-green room with semi-circular windows and a large table, also taken from the painting, as well as a loggia that lines the marketplace. In the \u201cgames\u201d area we cite the square pattern of a chess board, which is reflected in the floor and the design of the exhibition elements. In this way we expand the painting into the room. The whole exhibition becomes an enlarged picture room through which we can stroll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n What is your favourite area in the exhibition? What was most challenging in realising it?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n Hans Hagemeister is exhibition designer at Deutsches Historisches Museum.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the exhibition \u201cDive into the Picture! Time Travel for Kids\u201d the Deutsches Historisches Museum is showing an inclusively designed exhibition primarily for children of grade school age<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1027,1755,2876,498],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inside-dhm-en","tag-children","tag-design-en","tag-dive-into-the-picture","tag-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9078,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions\/9078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Hans Hagemeister, exhibition designer at DHM<\/em><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since many children have not yet learned to read, or have trouble reading, the hands-on stations have to be largely self-explanatory so that they function without the use of wall texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/240926_AMB_Farbkonzept_kleiner-fuer-Web-2.jpg\")
The title of the exhibition \u201cDive into the Picture!\u201d is its programme. Diving into the picture was also the basic idea for the design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Modellfoto_RIG_kleiner-fuer-Web-1.jpg\")
The young visitors are particularly taken by a game based on the jousting scene in the painting. The kids can try to hit a moving target with a lance. They have to sit on a rocking stool as if riding on a horse, and it takes lot of skill to hit the target.
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The greatest challenge in implementing our ideas was with the marble run. The marbles we use had to have a certain size so that the small children would not swallow them. Correspondingly, we had to use a relatively thick tube which we only managed to wrap around one of the few supports available in the room after several attempts and with the aid of special devices. At first it functioned all right. But with time the wound-up tube began to lose its shape. It has become flatter so that the marbles get stuck\u2026
But for this problem we once again have creative experts in the museum: the marbles are rolling again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n \u00a0<\/td>\n \n Hans Hagemeister<\/h4>\n
From Idea to Realisation – Interview with Hans Hagemeister<\/h2>\n