Final ECEC Conference in Liverpool: 6-7 July 2010

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

Local project from Volos / Grece

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)

Doner, Delivery and Design - Entrepreneurs in Berlin

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

Let’s have a coffee : Local project from the Ethnographic Museum Zagreb

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 [...]

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Berlin: Special Exhibition Announcement

Doner, Delivery and Design - Entrepreneurs in Berlin

21.11.2009-28.2.2010 (opening 20.11., 7pm)

Imagine IC, Amsterdam: The Commodification of Diversity

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 [...]

Call for your contribution !!

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 [...]

“My business” – Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Berlin

Read more about the local project of the Museum of European Cultures (MEK) and the Neighbourhood Museum (NBM) in Berlin

Liverpool: The Secret life of Smithdown

‘The Secret Life of Smithdown’ project will explore how entrepreneurs have helped shape neighbourhoods and local resident’s lives and life experiences along Smithdown Road, South Liverpool over time. The project will culminate in a neighbourhood display in People’s City Gallery in the new Museum of Liverpool opening 2010.
Read more in this document: The Secret life [...]