The architecture for the exhibition has been designed to grow like a flower into the three rooms, with its roots, leaves and blossoms. Within this setting, an array of cultural-historical records and artworks, scientific specimens, photographs and video installations vividly demonstrate just how much curiosity and affection we as human beings have for our plant-based environment – but also how reckless and destructive we have been towards it. That’s the political aspect of the exhibition: Global challenges such as man-made climate change, the decline in biodiversity and the alarming world food situation compel us to think long and hard about a more deliberate and considerate approach to plants and nature as a whole. On this museum-based foray across our green planet, visitors can expect lots of surprising, intriguing and entertaining things to see and do. And by the time they reach the end of the tour, there’s one popular misconception they will certainly have ditched: plants are anything but boring!
Of Plants and People: 19. April 2019 - 19. April 2020
Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden
