Projects

PhD thesis in the making, looking at the "Haus der Rheinischen Heimat" (House of the Rhenish Homeland) of Cologne as a possible model museum of the 1920s. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Gottfried Korff, Ludwig-Uhland-Institute for Empirical Cultural Science at the University of Tuebingen/ Germany.

The Ice Age Europe Story (Working Title)
European Traveling Exhibition of Ice Age Europe - Network of Heritage Sites (in preparation)

Historical Mill and Museum Bakery Castle Homburg
Revision of the exhibition modules - Design and monitoring of the implementation,  with Anka Dawid (2016)

Lower Saxony State Exhibition "The Hanoverians on Britain's Throne 1714-1837"
general collaboration and development of materials for the schools in close collaboration with curators, experts and educators, on behalf of projekt2508 GmbH (2014)

Hessian State Exhibition EXPEDITION GRIMM
general collaboration and development of materials for the schools in close collaboration with curators, experts and educators, on behalf of projekt2508 GmbH  (2013)

"European cutlery - crafts and dining culture from medieval times to today" from the collections of the Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen.
2007 - 2008 on display at the Museo Municipal de la Cuchillería de Albacete (Spain) and, subsequently, at the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (Germany).
www.klingenmuseum.de
www.museo-mca.com

"Navajas. Spanish folding knifes from the Museo Municipal de la Cuchillería in Albacete, Spain", on display 2007 at the Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen

(planning, organizing, designing, marketing and educational progamming)
www.klingenmuseum.de

"Typical Korschenbroich?!"
co-curation and implementation of this participative exhibition at the Kulturbahnhof Korschenbroich, 2007

Member of the panel of experts for the further development of the German Sports and Olympic Museum Cologne, 2014

Expert consultation on invitation of the Culture Committee of the City of Hanover on measures to improve the marketing strategies and new forms of cultural mediation in museums, 2011. more ...

Ice Age Europe

Since 2013 Head of the Project Office of Ice Age Europe - Network of Heritage Sites with 18 members in 7 European countries in close collaboration with the lead partner Stiftung Neanderthal Museum.
www.ice-age-europe.eu

Erlebnismuseen am Rhein / Rhein Ruhr
2008 - 2013 establishment and management of the binational museum network with 18 member museums in Germany and the Netherlands (overall organization, financial management and fundraising, design and implementation of various activities directed primarily at families and schools). www.erlebnismuseen.de

Development of an action plan for the Roman Villa Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate (with M. Burzinski for projekt2508 GmbH) and coordination and moderation between the parties and interests involved

team member in a number of projects, including

• "90 years Bauhaus", theme-year 2009 of the state of Thuringia (for projekt2508 GmbH),
• Route of Democracy (for projekt M GmbH)
• the Greater Region (Luxembourg, Wallonia, eastern Belgium, Lorraine, Saarland and Rhineland-Pflalz, with M. Burzinski/ Destinet
  

Overall concept and realization of working materials in close collaboration with curators, historians and teachers for

• the state exhibitions of Hesse EXPEDITION GRIMM, 2013, (see brochure here) and
• the state exhibition of Lower Saxony "The Hanoverians on Britain`s Throne 1714-1837", 2014, (brochure).

Social Media Project Museums, Politics and Power - An International Conversation
in close collaboration with colleagues from the US, Russia and Germany and with support of ICOM as a run-up to the tri-national conference Museum & Power, September 2014 in St. Petersburg und Ekaterinburg
http://museumspoliticsandpower.org

Web Portals

Chief editor of www.licht-ruhr2010.de (during Capital of Culture RUHR.2010) and the web portal of the 2009 Year of Graphics in Germany