Pop-up Exhibition: "We Wanna Live!"
11/18/2025In a pop-up exhibition, students from Egypt, Germany and Tunisia are exploring sustainable perspectives for the future. The central aspect is how museums themselves can become more sustainable.
What does climate-friendly mobility look like? Why is deleting spam mails sustainable? What materials can cultural institutions recycle? How can we open up access to education, participation and cultural diversity? And what are museums in Egypt, Germany and Tunisia doing to become more sustainable and protect our climate?
Interested parties can find out all of this in a pop-up exhibition that will open on Monday, 24 November 2025 in the atrium of the New University: "We Wanna Live! Museums shape the future. Sustainable projects from Egypt, Germany and Tunisia"
The title "We wanna live!" expresses the fact that living in a sustainable world should be a goal for society as a whole, which can only be achieved through comprehensive sustainable development.
"There are no patent solutions. This makes it all the more important to share knowledge, expertise and international perspectives," says Professor Guido Fackler from the Chair of Museum Studies at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU).
Collaborative and International
Fackler is one of the initiators of the exhibition. A total of 37 students and six lecturers from Cairo, Tunis and Würzburg worked together for a year to show how museums can become places of change and transformation.
Exceptional design, sustainable materials and vivid stories are intended to inspire visitors to rethink their everyday actions and utilise their creative abilities. Hands-on stations, food for thought and feedback opportunities help with this. Texts in Arabic, German, English and French make the content accessible to people from European and Arabic cultural backgrounds.
The exhibition is the highlight of the third-party funded project "GreenMuseumHub: Sustainable Futures for Museums and Heritage Sites", which is being funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for three years. The museum and heritage studies departments at JMU, Helwan/Cairo (Egypt) and Manouba/Tunis (Tunisia) are cooperating on the project. As part of a tri-national network of around 30 museums and cultural institutions, museum professionals and students are working intensively on the topic of sustainability at analogue and digital network meetings, online lectures, annual digital conferences as well as in internships and final theses.
Invitation to the Opening
All interested parties are invited to the opening of the pop-up exhibition with snacks and signature drinks from the partner countries on Monday, 24 November 2025 at 6 pm in the atrium of the New University on Sanderring. In the spirit of sustainability, guests are encouraged to bring their own drinking vessel.
Exhibition Viewing
After the opening, the exhibition can be viewed between 24 November and 19 December 2025 from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the atrium of the New University, Sanderring 2, Würzburg.
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