“Venture to the Interior” is an interactive project that explores the idea of museum and the history of collecting with the example of the Natural History Museum of Berlin. With its particular history this museum offers a precise and allusive vantage point for this reflection. During the time of the cold war the museum did not go through the modernization process as most other natural history museums and preserved therefore the status of the museum as it was in the nineteenth century, overlaid with the traces of the second world war that left one of the wings of the museum in ruins. In this sense the museum is a taxidermy of its own species, providing us a tangible and engaging insight into the frenzy of collecting, preserving and the making of knowledge.

Schränke - Cabinets

Vom Himmel ohne Füße - From Heaven without Feet

Gerüche - Smells

Welt ohne Farbe - World without Color

Das stumme Singen im Vogelsaal - Silent Singing in the Bird Hall

Stille Blicke – Silent Gazes