Design: Lena Thomaka, Johannes Hucht
The Manual of Traveling Exhibitions, published by UNESCO in 1953, is a handbook on the organization of traveling exhibitions. Directed at museums and other public institutions, it formulates a grammar for exhibition: from organizational issues to exhibition design. The "manual" reads from today's perspective as a manifesto of a hitherto unbroken modernity of the immediate post-war period.
The extensively commented reprint of the Manual of Traveling Exhibitions aims, on the one hand, to contextualize and critically question the historical source and, on the other hand, to highlight various forms of updating. The content of the "manual" is just as important as its inherent defects, the book design or the photographic logic of the illustrations.
Text: Martin Beck, Clémentine Deliss, Kurt Eckert, Jochen Eisenbrand, Rike Franke, Helene Hermann, Lydia Kähny, Tina Köhler, Moritz Küng, Sophie Lichtenberg, Jonathan Maho, Vanessa Joan Müller, Andreas Müller, Jennifer Tobias, Gitte Villesen, Nader Vossoughian, Florian Walzel, Grant Watson, Joanna Weddell, Maxim Weirich, Aaron Werbick
Design: Lena Thomaka, Johannes Hucht
Tutors: Prof. Andreas Müller, Aaron Werbick