Object n°79
Hourglass
Nice, FR
Habitat, Time flow
Object n°77
Gasoline
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Cars, Prosperity, Independence, Freedom
Object n°78
Frog
Dahme-Spreewald, DE
Frogs, environmental pollution, Lakes, Storks
Object n°76
Edeka plastic bag
Hamburg, DE
Plastic, Consumption
Object n°69
What is in the frame
Côtes-d'Armor, FR
Point of view, Photography, Framing, Nature in the city
Object n°71
Is nature empty or full?
Kamakura, JP
Japan, Shintoism, Sacred
Object n°75
Insulin Pump
United States, US
medical, diabetes, plastic
Object n°74
The newspaper
Berlin, DE
Recycling, Paper, Trees, Plastic, Education
Object n°73
The garden book of my grandmother Rosmarie
Landkreis Sömmerda, DE
Horticulture
Object n°70
What was there before there was something?
Côtes-d'Armor, FR
urbanization, agricultural decline, Experimentation
Object n°72
Far from the eyes far from the heart: the strike of the races in Saint-Brieuc
Côtes-d'Armor, FR
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Object n°67
Young crocodile without front feet from Berlin Kunstkammer
Berlin, DE
Art Chamber, Chamber of Wonders, Chamber of art and curiosities, Cultures of Collecting, Provenance Research, Colonial Contexts, Natural History, Digitization, Reconstruction
Object n°56
Glazed stone
Landkreis Northeim, DE
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Apple trees are blossoming earlier, butterflies are getting rarer and cities are spilling out into the countryside: What has happened? How has your environment changed? What can personal items or historical objects tell us about these transformations?
Contribute your object and your story to help us understand environmental change and the challenges of the future! Learn more about the project
Join us as we create a new kind of collection:
Object n°79
Hourglass
Nice, FR
Habitat, Time flow
Object n°77
Gasoline
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Cars, Prosperity, Independence, Freedom
Object n°78
Frog
Dahme-Spreewald, DE
Frogs, environmental pollution, Lakes, Storks
Object n°76
Edeka plastic bag
Hamburg, DE
Plastic, Consumption
Object n°69
What is in the frame
Côtes-d'Armor, FR
Point of view, Photography, Framing, Nature in the city
Object n°71
Is nature empty or full?
Kamakura, JP
Japan, Shintoism, Sacred
Object n°75
Insulin Pump
United States, US
medical, diabetes, plastic
Object n°74
The newspaper
Berlin, DE
Recycling, Paper, Trees, Plastic, Education
Contributions across the world
What do everyday objects and personal memories tell us about environmental change? Explore the collection: Where do the objects and stories come from? Who are the collectors? How are our personal memories connected to global developments?
Explore the collection
How to
contribute ?
1 Choose your object!
It is up to you to decide which objects fit in the collection: You can contribute anything from an everyday object or an historical record to a personal memory, an old cookbook, a family photo, or a piece of music.
Your object should fulfill 3 criteria:
- - originate from the past
- - have a personal connection to you
- - tell us something about the changes in our environment
1 Choose your object!
It is up to you to decide which objects fit in the collection: You can contribute anything from an everyday object or an historical record to a personal memory, an old cookbook, a family photo, or a piece of music.
Your object should fulfill 3 criteria:
- - originate from the past
- - have a personal connection to you
- - tell us something about the changes in our environment
14/09/2022
NEUE LIEDER VON DER ERDE - "Changing Natures" Visits the Neuköllner Oper
New narratives for a new geologcal era: Bring your own everyday objects or testimonies from the past to the opera and tell us your personal story about man-made environmental changes. Afterwards, the hall of the Neuköllner Oper itself will be transformed into a musical museum. With the music theatre show NEUE LIEDER VON DER ERDE, Neuköllner Oper and Stegreif Orchester create a theatrical symphony about the Earth and how its changes.
Four workshops on new stories for a new geological era:
- October 15, 20, 26, 2022, and November 11, 2022
- 7:15 p.m. in the studio of the Neuköllner Oper
- Free entrance, please register at info@neukoellneroper.de
- Tickets here
Make your personal object part of the collection in advance digitally on changing-natures.org and live on site!
14/09/2022
Beats & Bones Podcast: "Anthropocene. It Is Our Responsibility"
The impact of human activity on the Earth is so profound that scientists want to claim a new geological era, named after humans: The Anthropocene. Is it even possible to consider nature separately from humans? How did we ever come to see ourselves as seperate from nature? And what does that mean for the Museum of Natural History? Mira Witte and Elisabeth Heyne from "Changing Natures" are guests on the podcast “Beats & Bones”, a podcast of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Together with host Lukas Klaschinski, they take a somewhat different look at the collected objects. I wonder what they reveal about our relationship with nature.
Listen to the whole episode here (in German language): https://beats-and-bones.podigee.io/43-neue-episode
