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Follow the Danube at the DZM: More stories about the European river The Danube Swabian Central Museum Ulm has expanded its exhibitions
With many objects, photographs, films and illustrations, this exhibition tells 22 stories about the Danube. The focus is on both the natural space and the people who lived and still live on and with the river. The Danube as a travel and economic route and as a space with great cultural diversity are further thematic focal points. All this is done with many interactive elements, such as audio and film stations or hands-on objects. The
New concept in the DZM - Interesting facts about the Danube
"Look at me, says the Danube, tall am I, beautiful and wise. There is no one in Europe who could hold a candle to me." After 18 months of renovations, the DZM presents a significantly expanded and experience-oriented view of the Danube region in its historical rooms in the former federal fortress of Ulm on around 1,500 square metres, in keeping with Konrád's quote. The preexisting permanent exhibition on the history of the Danube Swabians was modernised and updated. It remains one of the two focal points of the DZM, which originally opened in 2000.
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The second, completely new focus is the Danube itself. The museum’s director Christian Glass speaks of a "rejuvenation cure". Since the generation of Danube Swabians with personal experience is becoming smaller and smaller, the DZM also has to break new ground, says Glass, in presenting history and stories about the Danube. The river tells stories This mainly happens in the new focus of the exhibition, "Danube. River Stories". The aim is to specifically address families, adults and children. The DZM wisely refrains from giving a comprehensive and encyclopedic pre-sentation of the whole Danube region with its almost 3,000 kilometers of river, 112 million people and 10 riparian states. Rather, the concept developed by the Berlin-based creative office “it's about” in cooperation with the DZM picks out 22 exemplary "river stories".
explanatory texts in this exhibition are written in German and English. Visitors can learn more about the legendary "Danube dinosaur", the beluga sturgeon, and fishing, for example from the fishermen in Apatin, Serbia, on the Serbian-Croatian border. Interferences into the ecosystem are illustrated, among other things, by looking at the construction history of the large run-of-river power plants at the Iron Gate on the border between Romania and Serbia.
