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- Students get to know an innovative regional museum and gain an insight into museum practice in collections, archives and exhibitions.

- Students reflect on the function of museums of everyday culture and history for regional identity, for the social structures of a community and for tourism.

- Students combine theoretical reading with practical experience in the field, meet ethnographic-historical professionals and thus explore ways of working in the field of European ethnology.

Regional museums are important places for the presentation and discussion of cultural studies findings. Museums are not downstream of the scientific process (e.g. at universities), but rather are themselves places of knowledge production, especially in a subject such as European ethnology, whose objects are close to the lives and everyday life of the many.

This makes a cultural-analytical reflection on public and museum mediation all the more important. We will analyse and experience this mediation at a specific museum location and enter into a dialogue with academics working in the field of cultural studies and ethnology.

Preparation, participant observation on the excursion itself/cultural analysis in the field, follow-up/written reflection.

Preliminary discussion on Tuesday 26 November, 3.30-5 pm.

Excursion on Wednesday 11 December, all day.

The journey to and from Lech am Arlberg is to be organised and paid for individually by the students. The excursion starts on 11 December in Lech. We are invited on site in Lech. A small snack will also be provided free of charge.

To pass the course, 1) preparatory text reading, 2) participation in the preliminary discussion, 3) participation in the excursion itself, and 4) a written reflection (approx. 5 pages) on an aspect of the student's choice afterwards are expected.

Successful completion of the course (2.5 ECTS) requires at least a satisfactory completion of all coursework.

Will be announced.