LUDWIG:CHARTS

Go to a museum as a child or teenager and get bored? Not at the LUDWIG:CHARTS! This is not about what adults find important and worth seeing, but about what touches and moves young people in an exhibition. Do you have to be interested in art or have been to a museum before? No! At the LUDWIG:CHARTS, kids discover art without any prerequisites or fears. The participants, known as "peer teamers", explore the gallery freely and discuss among themselves which works they like best. Their own world of experience and their own sensory impressions play a role - not the fame and notoriety of great works of art. At the end, the group agrees on a joint TOP 10, which they then present to parents, classmates, friends and visitors. Before the presentation, there are coaching sessions on body and speech training as well as media workshops. The LUDWIG:CHARTS have been an institution in the museum education of the LUDWIGGALERIE for ten years.

 

LUDWIG:LUST

The growing enthusiasm and great interest in the LUDWIG:CHARTS led the museum education team at the LUDWIGGALERIE to develop the LUDWIG:LUST project. Here, the discovery of art goes beyond the city of Oberhausen and the museum space. Following in the footsteps of the collector couple Irene and Peter Ludwig, children and young people go to the Ludwig houses in Cologne, Aachen or Koblenz in search of colors, sounds and smells. Because a museum is much more than a room with pictures on the wall - it is a sensory experience. On cards and in original sound, the participants report on colorful figures, golden frames, light and shadow, the smell of oil paint, hammering, drilling, footsteps, whispering or loud laughter. And it is not just the museum space that is under the magnifying glass of the art explorers. The urban environment, the architecture of the building and the comparison of the impressions in the various museums also become part of the overall picture that the kids take home with them at the end. Making you want to visit a museum – that’s what LUDWIG:LUST does.

 

Both projects are funded by the Federal Ministry of Research and Education as part of the “Culture Makes You Strong – Alliances for Education” programme.