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Albert Dock, Liverpool

On the first conference day, the Director of the National Museums Liverpool, David Fleming, welcomed us and introduced the Keynote speakers. The first speaker was (Lire la suite…)

There are new objects in  the virtual gallery from the  Zagreb Ethnographic Museum  (media)

The exhibition Let’s Have a Coffee, Views of Zagreb Entrepreneurs on the Culture of Coffee Consumption, of the Zagreb Ethnographic Museum is a result of the two-year research conducted within the scope of the project Entrepreneurial Cultures in European Cities.

Let's have a coffee - in the Zagreb Ethnographic Museum

The immediate reason for choosing this subject was that coffeehouses and cafés, as places of (Lire la suite…)

Find here information about the new Museum of the City of Volos, their activities, photos and interviews with entrepreneurs:

Museum of the City of Volos (pdf)

Download all information (exhibition context, entrepreneur’s biographies, photos)  about the local project from the ECEC partners in Berlin - the exhibition “Doner, Delivery and Design” of the Museum of European Cultures (MEK) and the Neighbourhood Museum:

(pdf) Exhibition Berlin

A look at the exhibition, by Ute Franz-Scarciglia, Copyright MEK.

Another look at the exhibition, by Ute Franz-Scarciglia, Copyright MEK.

The Museum of Liverpool is presenting objects from their local project “The secret life of Smithdown Road” in our virtual gallery. The exhibition shows from each entrepreneur the best selling item, or item which best represents their business.

The Amsterdam Historical Museum is presenting several objects from their “Buurtwinkels” (neighbourhoodshops) project.

The Museum Europäischer Kulturen is presenting objects from the exhibition “Doner, Delivery and Design” and objects from new entrepreneurs in Berlin

Follow the link to flickR in “media” .

Our symposium in Berlin started with a lecture by Andreas Germershausen, Vice Representative of the Berlin Senate for Integration and Migration. He spoke about the situation of  new entrepreneurs and migrants in Berlin. After a discussion, we visited the exhibition « Doner, Delivery and Design » organised (Lire la suite…)

Copyrights © Ethnographic Museum Zagreb, Croatia, 2009. Photographs by Oleg Moskaljov

Let’s Have a Coffee

Views of Zagreb Entrepreneurs on the Culture of Coffee Consumption

Coffeehouses have an interesting history, dating back to the late 17^th century in many European cities. The first coffeehouse in Zagreb was established in 1749. The coffeehouses of Zagreb were modelled after West European, especially Viennese, coffeehouses, which was reflected primarily in their interior design, but also in the coffee offer. Since (Lire la suite…)

There are some additional photos in the gallery (media)  from the ECEC symposium in Barcelona in June 2009 (”Contemporary Collecting and citizen participation in City History Museums”).

An international conference called “Migration, Politics and Work” gave us this June the opportunity to present our project. It was organized from Thursday, 25th of June to Saturday, 27th of June 2009  in Trier (D) and Dudelange (L) by the Institute for Regional and Migration Research IRM (Trier, Germany), the Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines CDMH (Dudelange, Luxemburg) and the Institute for Integration and Participation IIP, School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (Olten, Switzerland).

Whereas migrational (Lire la suite…)