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Deutsches Historisches Museum

Abteilungsdirektorin Kommunikation

Barbara Wolf

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Press Release

June

Europe and the Sea An exhibition by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation with the Jean Monnet Chair of European History at the University of Cologne

June – 6 January

These days, many Europeans are hardly aware that Europe is a maritime continent in geographical terms. Bordered by two oceans and four seas along almost , kilometres of coastline, Europe has proportionally more contact with the sea than does any other continent. Yet the sea plays hardly any part in most people s daily lives and if they do think of it at all, it is as a holiday destination or a border region. Nevertheless, the sea is once again a crucial factor in the issues facing us today. For one thing, millions of people fleeing war, oppression, or poverty need to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. For another, advances in the exploitation of marine resources are already beginning to change the way we Europeans live. Europe and the Sea makes us realise just how profoundly the sea has shaped the development and identity of the continent and how it continues to do so today. The exhibition opens at the Deutsches Historisches Museum on Wednesday, June .

This is the first special exhibition to observe the continent of Europe from the direction of the sea. Here, the Deutsches Historisches Museum explores , years of maritime cultural history from multinational perspectives, setting sail from key European port cities to chart the course of developments from the classical founding myth of Europa to the present day.

The exhibition offers an overview of the many and varied transformations that the sea has wrought in Europe since the days of Antiquity. In doing so, it reveals the global relationships of interdependence and interaction that emerged in the course of exploring and opening up the oceans and seas. It becomes clear that the command of the sea was a key factor in European power politics for centuries on end. Case studies cast light on the naval supremacy of the Venetian Republic, the expansionism of the Iberian kingdoms, the rise of the Netherlands as a shipbuilding nation, the transatlantic slave trade, and British dominance of the world economy, as well as several topics of current importance. Occupying , square metres, the exhibition presents a panorama of different countries and eras across Europe – a continent whose culture, global outlook and understanding of itself have been fundamentally shaped through exchange with other parts of the world.

Departure for New Worlds

Spread over two floors, the exhibition presents a total of historic and contemporary cultural exhibits lent by leading institutions and selected from the

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museum s own collection, bringing together economic, political, social, and cultural perspectives in a maritime survey of unprecedented breadth. The ambivalent role of the sea is cast into sharp relief. On the one hand, it served as a connecting element that enabled the European powers to engage in far-reaching transnational interaction, turning the world s second smallest continent into a global player. A dense network of maritime trade and transport routes provided the conditions necessary for the global transport of goods and raw materials, information and ideas, people and moral concepts. On the other hand, European expansion had consequences for the inhabitants of other continents too. For many of them, the arrival of Europeans meant exploitation, violence, racism, and oppression. In the largest section of the exhibition, original objects such as the chronicle written by Pierre Bontier and Jean le Verrier, The Conquest and the Conquerors of the Canary Islands and the layout of the slave ship Marie-Séraphique show that political power play, the pursuit of economic dominance, and colonial intervention almost always went hand in hand.

From a Continent of Emigration to a Continent of Immigration

For centuries, the oceans were regarded as the natural borders of the continents, until advances in technology finally transformed them into heavily used transit spaces. Between and alone, million people from all over Europe migrated overseas in search of a new life with better prospects. At present, coastlines make up two-thirds of the European Union s outer borders, which are increasingly becoming barriers as member countries attempt to seal them. In historical terms, migration is a perennial phenomenon. People flee their homes nowadays for the same reasons as they always have: war, poverty, lack of prospects, political oppression, and religious persecution. The exhibition vividly illustrates Europe s development from a continent of net emigration in the th century to a continent of net immigration in the th and st centuries. The focus here lies on the passage by ship, with its attendant dangers, as the crucial act of migration. The circumstances are shown to be far more dangerous now than what people had to face in the th century. By , over , migrants had drowned in the Mediterranean.

The Exploration of the World s Oceans: Use and Over-use

Another issue of greater concern than ever before is what we are doing to marine ecosystems. For thousands of years, the inhabitants of Europe have been catching fish, as illustrated by exhibits such as Marcus Élieser Bloch s drawings and wet-

prepared specimens. The relatively recent rise to importance of crude oil and natural gas is now being followed by raw material sources such as cobalt crusts, manganese nodules, and methane hydrates, which were discovered within the last few decades. Overfishing, maritime disasters, and litter threaten not only the

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future of the oceans, but also the global climate and the overall ecological equilibrium. Scientists estimate that by , the oceans will contain more plastic than fish. As the available resources dwindle, oceanographers are exploring the deep sea in search of solutions for use in the future. Exhibits of recent origin, such as the plastic animal figures called Friendly Floatees, offer a striking reminder that even the study of ocean garbage can yield important information about aspects of marine ecology – in that particular case, the world s ocean currents.

The Invention of the Beach Holiday

Despite such problems, for most people the sea is still a place that both awakens longings and encourages relaxation. In the th century, Europeans discovered the aesthetic and therapeutic qualities of the sea. The ocean came to be seen less as an intimidating natural force and more as the epitome of the beautiful and the sublime , as well as a place of healing and recuperation. The European nobility

travelled to take spa treatments and socialise in newly created sea bathing establishments, starting with Brighton and other British seaside towns. Resorts were soon springing up along the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts, followed some years later by the rivieras of southern Europe. The custom of taking a summer holiday by the sea each year spread rapidly among the middle classes. As people s perceptions of the sea continued to change, artists such as Carl Gustav Carus and Max Liebermann began to paint coastal landscapes and seaside scenes as subjects in their own right. Once a place had been discovered by artists, it was likely to start attracting other paying guests before long. The development of coastal regions to cater for visitors ultimately led, in the late twentieth century, to the era of global mass tourism.

The exhibition is largely accessible for disabled visitors and offers a range of inclusive features. As well as texts in German and English, the main content is presented in Braille and Simple German, as well as sign-language videos. Each subject is introduced interactively at one of the thirteen Inclusive Communication Stations.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, which is published in separate

German and English editions (448 pages, 415 illustrations, 35 €, hardcover with dust jacket).

The exhibition topics are explored further in a high-quality programme of events.

The exhibition has been created by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in

cooperation with the Jean Monnet Chair of European History at the University of

Cologne, and with the kind support of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Director of Communications

Barbara Wolf

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Press Officer

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Europe and the Sea

An exhibition by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in partnership with the Jean Monnet Chair for European History at the University of Cologne.

Exhibition Texts

Ancient Foundations. The Port of Piraeus

At first, people in Greece and Asia Minor had a distanced relationship to the sea. In the Odyssey, the poet Homer portrays the sea as a fearsome haunt of gods and de-mons. On his voyage, the epic s hero, Odysseus, has to confront fantastic sea mon-sters such as Scylla and Charybdis.

The appropriation of the sea began in the eighth century B.C. as the Greeks devel-oped a new kind of settlement, the polis, and established colonies across the Medi-terranean region. Greek trading bases sprang up along the coasts of the Mediterra-nean Sea and the Black Sea. Foremost among them was Piraeus, the port of Athens. Athenian currency, weights and measures, and Attic commercial law were adopted by every member state of the Delian League.

The Romans followed the Greeks example and used the Mediterranean as the foun-dation on which to build an empire spanning the known world. For over three hun-dred years, they dominated the ancient world via the Mediterranean, which they called mare nostrum, meaning our sea .

Command of the Sea. The Port of Venice

Command of the sea has always been a key factor in European power politics. Wars

that influenced the course of world history were fought on the seas; and commercial

empires were established by those that controlled the seas, allowing even small

countries to acquire great political power.

The Republic of Venice, from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, was the prototype

of the modern maritime power. Dubbed a city in the sea and a sea state , Venice

had a unique connection to the sea, and maritime trade became its greatest source

of income. To safeguard its commercial activities, Venice created a navy that was

unrivalled in all of Europe. It also established a system of bases to control sea routes,

an approach later copied by all the great maritime powers.

Whether territorial claims could be extended to the sea was hotly debated from the

early seventeenth century onwards. The United Nations Convention on the Law of

the Sea has provided binding regulations on this issue since 1982.

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Coastal Trade. The Port of Gdańsk

In northern medieval Europe, the regions of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to-gether formed a large trading area. Major trade routes ran from east to west, con-necting Russia with western European markets. In the thirteenth century, several merchant towns joined forces and formed a trading network called the Hanseatic League.

About towns along the Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts belonged to the net-work, which existed officially until . Local headquarters were established in the cities of Bruges, Bergen, London, Novgorod and Danzig now Gdańsk . Starting in the fourteenth century, Danzig, situated on the southern Baltic Sea coast, took on an important role in European coastal trade.

In the s, a medieval shipwreck was discovered in the Bay of Gdańsk. It was dubbed the Copper Ship because of its cargo. Merchandise typical of that traded by the Hanseatic League in the fifteenth century, including copper plates, iron bars and wooden planks, was found on board.

Expansion. The Port of Seville

Europe s discovery and conquest of new worlds propelled it into a new age. This period of expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries provided European na-tions with new room to manoeuvre, both economically and politically. What is more, the expeditions they undertook fundamentally changed their understanding of the world and of themselves.

The principal players in the early phase of expansion were Portugal and Spain. They divided up the world between them in the Treaty of Tordesillas .Most of the new world to the west of the Atlantic went to Spain. Spain s first step as a colonial

power was to conquer the Canary Islands – , which served as a testing ground for its conquest of the Americas. Spain s main gateway to the new world was the port of Seville, in southern Spain.

It was not just Europe that felt the profound consequences of overseas expansion. For the inhabitants of discovered lands, the arrival of the Europeans mainly meant violence, oppression, exploitation and death.

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Missionary Work and Cultural Exchange with East Asia. The Port of Lisbon

European expansion in the Americas and East Asia was accompanied by a significant phenomenon: cultural exchange. European explorers changed the worlds that they encountered or conquered, besides which they brought new foods, consumer goods and cultural practices back to Europe.

Voyages to the East departed from the port of Lisbon, the capital of the Kingdom of Portugal. The seafarers objective was to trade in spices and spread Christianity. In the sixteenth century, Portugal built up a network of important trading and military bases from East Africa to Japan – the backbone of the Estado da India State of In-dia .

The Jesuit missionaries to China also set out from Lisbon. They studied Asian lan-guages and modes of thought while introducing their knowledge of geography and astronomy. Their embrace of foreign cultures caused offence in Europe. Asian inno-vations were adopted nonetheless: not only did tea, gunpowder and porcelain come here from China, but also paper money, noodles, ice cream and toilet paper.

Shipbuilding and Seafaring. The Port of Amsterdam

The Dutch were a major force in European shipbuilding and seafaring in the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries. Their profitable overseas trade required large ship-yards for building cargo ships, and Amsterdam became the centre of shipbuilding in Europe.

The Dutch also gained a reputation as outstanding mariners and cartographers. They charted the seas and coastal areas, recording the results in maritime guides and atlases. Continual advances in the technology of navigational instruments made seafaring both easier and safer.

Life aboard sailing ships in the eighteenth century was very demanding for sailors. A selection of finds from shipwrecks illustrate how they spent their days and what their living conditions were like.

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Slave Trade. The Port of Nantes

Over the course of European expansion, and well into the nineteenth century, Euro-peans enslaved over million people from Africa and sold them in the Americas and the Caribbean. There, they were forced to work on cotton and sugar planta-tions. The great wealth of the French port city of Nantes was based on its trade in enslaved people, which itself rested on racist attitudes.

The transatlantic slave trade was usually triangular . Ships started from Nantes, loaded with guns, brandy or printed cloth. Traders would use these wares to buy enslaved people on the west African coast. Despite their resistance and by means of great violence, they were carried across the Atlantic and sold in exchange for sug-ar and other products. Those profits were used by traders to equip new slave ships.

In the late eighteenth century, abolitionist movements demanding an end to slavery emerged in Europe and North America. France abolished the slave trade in . Traders from Nantes nevertheless illegally continued to trade in enslaved people until .

Global Economy. The Port of London

Until the late eighteenth century, the import of raw materials from overseas was a key element of the European economy. In the nineteenth century, Great Britain, with its seaborne empire , was the driving force behind global interconnection. A widespread network of maritime bases gave it the means to control global trade routes. The invention of the steam engine revolutionized the British and other Euro-pean economies. To handle the growing quantity and variety of merchandise, the docklands were built on vast areas in the port of London. They served as a model for other ports such as Hamburg.

Great Britain also set new standards in the financial sector. International corpora-tions were formed and shares in them were sold to fund the construction of large ships such as the GREAT EASTERN and infrastructure such as the Suez Canal.

The first transatlantic cable, laid in , was the beginning of a communications network that now links whole continents. Agreement on World Time, based on the Greenwich meridian, and the later standardization of shipping containers were cru-cial in synchronizing and integrating the global economy.

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Migration. The Port of Bremerhaven

Until the nineteenth century, the sea was a virtually impassable barrier for people who wanted to leave their homes. It was not until technical advances in shipbuilding that the oceans came to be bridges between the continents.

Between and , millions of Europeans emigrated across the Atlantic, hop-ing for better living and working conditions or trying to escape political or religious persecution. Most of them went to North America.

Bremerhaven, founded at the mouth of the Weser River in , was an important hub for migration out of Europe. Steerage passengers travelling on ships that left from its port worried that they might not survive and routinely suffered from sea-sickness, hunger and thirst.

After the two world wars, Europe evolved from a continent of emigrants to one of immigrants. As European colonies gained their independence, many former coloni-al subjects migrated to the mother countries , for example Great Britain. For sev-eral years, people from Africa and Asia have been making their way to Europe, seek-ing to flee poverty, war and terror.

Use and Overuse. The Port of Bergen

The seas and oceans contain an abundance of resources. Primary among them is fish, which for hundreds of years provided an important alternative to meat on fast days. Stockfish in particular – a speciality of the Norwegian town of Bergen – was exported to many countries throughout Europe.

Fossil fuels petroleum and natural gas became increasingly important over the course of the twentieth century. The seas of Europe were explored in the hope of finding offshore reserves. On 4 December 969, the first large combined oil and gas field was found in Norwegian waters. It made Norway one of the richest countries in the world.

The exploitation of natural maritime resources and continual prospecting for new

kinds of mineral deposits have serious consequences for the maritime ecosystem.

Large amounts of plastic waste are doing long-term damage to the waters and the

life they contain, and are testing the seas and oceans to their limits.

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Maritime Research. The Port of Kiel

The oceans cover more than percent of the Earth s surface. Advances in technol-ogy have allowed people to reach ever greater depths, to bring life forms and sea-bed samples back to the surface and to gain a better understanding of the sea.

Initially, marine research was motivated largely by interest, both commercial and scientific, in the creatures of the sea. Specific studies began appearing in the eight-eenth century. Today, modern ichthyology is traced back to the work of Marcus Élieser Bloch – , a doctor and naturalist.

A prime example of early scientific research voyages is the German Atlantic Expedi-tion, which systematically studied and surveyed the South Atlantic between and .

Current marine research tackles questions concerning the role of the oceans in cli-mate change and the effects of human activity on the oceans. The future of marine research lies in continuous long-term measurement, carried out by instruments in permanently installed deep-sea observatories.

Tourism. The Port of Brighton

The seaside holiday is a European invention. In the Age of Enlightenment, during the eighteenth-century, people s perception of nature changed. They began to see the sea as a place of beauty and recreation. In Richard Russell, a British doctor, published the first description of the medicinal effects of seawater on all kinds of ailment.

Russell practiced on the south coast of England in Brighton, which grew into a fash-ionable seaside spa, patronized by the nobility. With its pier and elegant seafront promenade, Brighton was taken as a model for spas established on the Baltic and North Sea coasts of continental Europe.

By around , the middle class had taken over the seaside. On the beach, more casual modes of behavior evolved. Countless resorts developed on the Mediterrane-an as well. A new, exclusive type of holiday was devised: the cruise.

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The increasing availability of air travel brought the countries of Europe – and later the whole world – closer to each other. In the s, cheap charter flights and pack-age tours finally enabled ordinary people to afford a holiday by the sea.

Changes in Mentality. The Sea and the Beach as Subjects in Painting

As the appreciation of nature grew, from the eighteenth century onwards, the sea came to epitomize the sublime . People discovered the beach and the seaside not only as recreational areas, but also as inspiration for paintings.

Maritime subjects had long been part of Europe s artistic tradition, especially scenes of naval battles, portraits of ships, and views of ports or harbors. The sea and the coast, however, had usually been no more than a backdrop. In the nineteenth century, artists became aware of the sea and the beach as subjects in their own right.

This was closely linked to the popularity of open-air painting. Increasing industriali-zation and urban growth led painters to move to rural areas. Artists seeking to work in the open air would often settle in the same place, forming colonies in quiet fishing villages or on remote islands.

Once a place had been discovered by artists, it was likely to be developed for tour-ism before long. Around , in the heyday of spa holidays, tourism itself became a theme of art, in paintings that featured holidaymakers bathing, strolling, or enjoying various other activities.


Abteilungsdirektorin Kommunikation

Barbara Wolf

Unter den Linden 2

10117 Berlin

T +49 30 20304-110

F +49 30 20304-152

[email protected]

Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Daniela Lange

Unter den Linden 2

10117 Berlin

T +49 30 20304-410

F +49 30 20304-412

[email protected]

www.dhm.de

Europe and the Sea An exhibition by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation with the Jean Monnet Chair in European History at the University of Cologne

Accompanying Events:

Panel Discussions

Monday, 03 September 2018, 6 p.m., Zeughauskino

Between Freedom and Frontex

The Sea as a Bridge and Barrier I

A panel discussion organised by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation

with the Allianz Cultural Foundation with Jakob Berndt, SOS MEDITERRANEE; Dr. Itamar Mann, University of Haifa; Maxi Obexer, author and playwright, and others.

Chaired by: Esra Küçük, Managing Director of the Allianz Cultural Foundation

Register at: events.dhm.de

Monday, 29 October 2018, 6 p.m., Zeughauskino

Who Does the Sea Belong To?

The Sea as an Arena for Territorial and Trading Interests

Panel Discussions

With Irina Haesler, German Shipowners Association (VDR); Prof. Dr. Michael Kempe,

Leibniz Research Centre at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences/Leibniz Archive at

the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover; Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß,

Institute of Legal Policy (IRP) at the University of Trier; Dr. Patricia Schneider,

Institute of Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH),

and others

Chaired by: tbc


Thursday, 08 November 2018, 6 p.m., Schlüterhof The Use of the Seas

The Sea as a Resource


with the Representation of the State of Schleswig-Holstein With Prof. Dr. Anita Engels, Centre for Globalisation and Governance at the University of Hamburg; Jochen Flasbarth, Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety; Nikolaus Gelpke, Chief Editor of mare: Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and others

Chaired by: Dirk Steffens, ZDF


Monday, 10 December 2018, 6 p.m., Zeughauskino

Eurotopia: Visions of the Future for Europe

The Sea as a Bridge and Barrier II


with the Allianz Cultural Foundation

With Pauline Endres de Oliveira, Amnesty International Germany; Ruben

Neugebauer, Peng! artists collective/Sea Watch e.V.; Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer,

Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of

Osnabrück, and others

Chaired by: Esra Küçük, Managing Director of the Allianz Cultural Foundation


Artist in Conversation

Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 6 p.m., exhibition hall The Sea as Place of Yearning and Imagination

Jochen Hein, artist, in conversation with Prof. Dr. Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen,

West Coast Art Museum, Föhr


Lectures

Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 6 p.m., auditorium

On the Importance of the Sea in European History

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Elvert, University of Cologne


Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 6 p.m., auditorium World Travel Time. Humboldt, Chamisso and the Globalisation of the Sea

Prof. Dr. Walter Erhart, Christine Peters and Monika Sproll, University of

Bielefeld


Guided Tours By the Curators

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 6 p.m., exhibition hall Dorlis Blume


Wednesday 18 July 2018, 6 p.m., exhibition hall Thomas Eisentraut


Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 6 p.m., exhibition hall Christiana Brennecke and Ursula Breymayer


Guided Tours

4 € plus admission fee

Guided Tours in German

Tue + Thur + Sat 2 p.m. Wed + Fri + Sun 4 p.m.

Wednesday, 30 October 2018, 12 a.m. + 2 p.m., free of charge Friday, 09 November 2018, 2 p.m., free of charge Tuesday, 25 December 2018, 4 p.m. Wednesday, 26 December 2018, 2 p.m. Tuesday, 01 January 2019, 4 p.m.

Guided Tours in English

Mondays, 1 p.m. Wednesday, 03 October 2018, 1 p.m., free of charge

Wednesday, 26 December 2018, 12 a.m.

World Refugee Day, admission free

Wednesday, 20 June 2018

12 a.m., French

1 p.m., German

2 p.m., English

3 p.m., Spanish

4 p.m., Turkish

Audio guide

German, English


Activities for Children and Families

Seamen's Yarns

Age 8 and older

2 € plus admission fee (free admission up to 18 years)

18 € Family ticket

Sundays on 24/06, 08/07, 22/07, 05/08, 19/08, 02/09, 16/09, 30/09, 14/10,

28/10, 11/11, 25/11, 30/12

During school holidays: Mon + Fri 2 p.m., Tue + Thur 11 a.m.

Audio guide for children

German, English

3 €, family price 6 € (max. 4 devices for 2 adults and 2 children) plus admission fee

Booklet for children

Seamen's Yarns

Set out on your own voyage through the exhibition (only in German)

Tours for groups

Guided tours for groups, available in German, English, French, Russian,

Spanish and Turkish.


Activities for School Classes

Guided tours for the third grade upwards

1 €, 60 minutes

History workshops

2 €, 150 minutes

Secondary level I (fifth grade)

Of Nets and Networks. The Sea and the Globalisation of the World

Secondary level II (twelfth grade)

Ships, Saccharum, Sextants – The Maritime Exploration of the World, 15th

to 21st Century

Activities and Access for Disabled Visitors

Accessibility and Inclusive Features

The exhibition can be experienced with several senses – not only sight and

hearing, but also touch. It is designed to allow disabled (in particular

wheelchair) access in most areas. The exhibition texts are all provided in both

German and English. The main texts are also available in Braille and in large

print (black on white and white on black) for the blind and visually impaired, in

Simple German for people with learning difficulties, and in German Sign

Language for the deaf. The different kinds of text are clearly identified in each

case. The exhibits are shown at different heights; most of the display cases

are shaped to allow close viewing by wheelchair users. The colour scheme

uses contrast to improve visibility.

Guided tours for blind and visually impaired visitors

Fridays on 06/07, 03/08, 07/09, 05/10, 02/11, 07/12, 04/01, 3 p.m.

Guided tours with translation into German Sign Language

Fridays on 13/07, 10/08, 14/09, 12/10, 09/11, 14/12, 3 p.m.

Guided tours in Simple German

Fridays on 15/06, 20/07, 17/08, 21/09, 19/10, 16/11, 21/12, 3 p.m.



Barbara Wolf

Unter den Linden 2

10117 Berlin

T +49 30 20304-110

F +49 30 20304-152

[email protected]

Press Officer

Daniela Lange

Unter den Linden 2

10117 Berlin

T +49 30 20304-410

F +49 30 20304-412

[email protected]

www.dhm.de

Europe and the Sea An exhibition by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation with the Jean

Monnet Chair in European History at the University of Cologne

Dates and Facts

Venue Deutsches Historisches Museum,

basement and ground floor exhibition halls

Duration 13 June 2018 to 6 January 2019

Opening hours 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily

Admission Free admission up to age 18

Day ticket 8 €, concessions 4 €

Information


Unter den Linden 2 | 10117 Berlin

Tel. +49 30 20304-0 | E-mail: [email protected]

Internet www.dhm.de/ausstellungen

Exhibition floor area 1500 m², basement and ground floor exhibition

halls

Exhibition size approx. 400 exhibits

President Raphael Gross

Head of Exhibitions Ulrike Kretzschmar

Head of Project Dorlis Blume

Curators Dorlis Blume, Christiana Brennecke, Ursula

Breymayer, Thomas Eisentraut

Scientific Advisor Werner Konitzer

Idea Jürgen Elvert

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Project Assistant Kerstin Kemner

Exhibition design Nadine Rasche, Werner Schulte

Publication Europe and the Sea

Edited by Dorlis Blume, Christiana Brennecke,

Ursula Breymayer and Thomas Eisentraut for

the Deutsches Historisches Museum

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich

448 pages, 415 illustrations

Hardcover, clothbound, with dust jacket

ISBN 978-3-86402-210-7

35.00 €

Patrons Funded with a grant from the Federal

Government Commissioner for Culture and the

Media

Kindly supported by the Kingdom of the

Netherlands

Media partners Arte, FluxFM, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung



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Europe and the sea

An exhibition by the Deutsches Historisches Museum in partnership with the Jean Monnet Chair for European History at the University of Cologne.

Short biographies curators

Dorlis Blume, M.A. Head of Special Exhibitions and Projects, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

Head of Project and Curator Europe and the Sea

Dr. Christiana Brennecke

Historian, Berlin

Curator Europe and the Sea

Ursula Breymayer, M.A. Free Curator of Exhibitions, Cultural Historian, Berlin


Thomas Eisentraut, M.A. Historian, Berlin


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13th June 2018 to 6th January 2019

Download press photos: www.dhm.de/presse

The press photos may be used exclusively for current reporting within the framework of the above-mentioned exhibition and only with

complete indication of the source.

Europa on the bull, 500–475 B.C.© bpk / Antikensammlung, SMB / Johannes Laurentius

Kopf des Odysseus, Kopie nach hellenistischem Original,um 250 n. Chr.© Kunst- und Kulturzentrum (KuK) der StädteRegion Aachen, Monschau

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Aldo Baradel, model of the last Bucentaur, 1972–1976© Aldo Baradel CollectionPhoto: Gianfranco Munerotto

3 Idol of Tara, pre-Hispanic era© El Museo Canario, Las Palmas

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View of Seville, c. 1600, unknown Spanish artist© Museo Nacional del PradoPlease note that the layout must be sent to the lender for approval before publication.

Abraham Storck, Tsar Peter the Great on board his yacht, heading toward the frigate Pieter en Paul, c. 1698© Amsterdam Museum

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7 Ship‘s biscuit (hard tack), 13 April 1784© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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Pierre Bontier and Jean le Verrier, chronicle: Conquête et lesConquérants des Iles Canaries (The conquest and theconquerors of the Canary Islands), c. 1405© The British Library Board, Egerton 2709, f.2.

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Richard Fleischhut, Emigrants aboard the ocean liner Bremen II, 1909 © Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

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Antonie Volkmar, Emigrants‘ Farewell, 1860© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

Mobile phone carried by MohammedEbrahimi as a refugee, c. 2014© Mohammed Ebrahimi, Berlin

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Jean -René Lhermitte, Layout, profile and transactions of theslave ship Marie-Séraphique, c. 1770© Château des ducs de Bretagne – Musée d’histoire de Nantes

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Cod hung up to dry, to make stockfish, 1924© Norwegian Fisheries Museum, Museum Vest, Photo: Anders B. Wilse

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Friendly Floatees © Sitka/ Alaska, Dean OrbisonPhoto: Deutsches Historisches Museum

15 Deep-sea side-scan sonar for use at depths down to 6,000 m, after 1980© GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Photo: Linda Plagmann

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Souvenir piece of the first transatlantic cable, 1858© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

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Max Liebermann, Boys Bathing, 1902© Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr

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Double-page spread from the June 1938 issue of die neue linie, with a view of the KdF Sea Baths of Prora on Rügen,Gerda Rotermund (illustration), 1938© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

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Carl Gustav Carus, Breaking Waves on Rügen, 1819© bpk | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | Elke Estel

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Poster issued by the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company advertising „exceptionally inexpensive Nordic voya-ges in summer 1928“, 1928© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

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