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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

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.
The immediate reason for choosing this subject was that coffeehouses and cafés, as places of

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

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 [...]

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 17th 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 [...]

Follow the link below to the interview with an entrepreneur from Tallinn, owner of a popular coffehouse chain in the capital city Tallinn with migration background. This interview is a part of the current project research made by the Tallinn City Museum:
Vello
The Estonian capital city is home to approximately 400 000 people [...]

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Doner, Delivery and Design - Entrepreneurs in Berlin

21.11.2009-28.2.2010 (opening 20.11., 7pm)

In June 2009, we got together in Barcelona to discuss strategies for collecting the ‘future heritage’ of contemporary entrepreneurial cultures in European cities. The various museums involved are collecting objects and personal histories of new European entrepreneurs. In the exhibition project Supertoko, Imagine IC in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam Institute for [...]

Do you have or did you go to an orientalised restaurant in a European city and do you have pictures of it ? Please share them and your stories with us. You can send them to us and they will be made available at this website.

The Ryad Raval restaurant in Barcelona markets exotism. According to [...]