P26

A high­ly atmos­pher­ic but very dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed col­or scheme and graph­ic pro­cess­ing guides vis­i­tors through the floors. Each floor is a world of its own, its own research and learn­ing cos­mos. On the 1^st floor, warm, earthy col­ors cre­ate a feel­ing of high ener­gy while at the same time being ground­ed. It is about ethno­graph­ic dis­cours­es, a flex­i­ble set­ting for the debate in the glob­al dis­course on how to pro­ceed in the future with a view to the post-colo­nial lega­cy and tra­di­tion­al exhi­bi­tion practices.

On the 2^nd floor, the Paul Clemen Muse­um brings togeth­er works of art from the Mid­dle Ages to the present day and from Cen­tral Ger­many to Sici­ly on a flat ​“stage”. In a room set­ting in sand and Yves Klein blue, con­trast­ing with shiny alu­minum, the heavy plas­ter casts appear live­ly and fresh. They are avail­able for view­ing — for teach­ing and for pri­vate art enthusiasts.

On the third floor, the Egypt­ian Muse­um, in a now sig­nif­i­cant­ly small­er space, opens up a space with a spe­cial atmos­phere, yet intense­ly mag­i­cal. Dec­o­rat­ed entire­ly in the green tones of the Nile, and fea­tur­ing a large num­ber of valu­able arti­facts, you’ll encounter the work of archae­ol­o­gists from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bonn.

For the inner city of Bonn, which, like many oth­ers in Ger­many, is strug­gling with struc­tur­al change, Post­strasse is an asset in terms of revi­tal­iza­tion. The cut­back caused by e‑commerce is too severe, so that oth­er pro­grams are need­ed in the inner city in addi­tion to retail. The uni­ver­si­ty and the city of Bonn are com­bin­ing the need to move into inter­im quar­ters in the most ele­gant way with the space resources that have become avail­able in the inner city. For chezweitz, as a well-known scenog­ra­phy office, it was a par­tic­u­lar chal­lenge to link the strate­gic dimen­sion (uni­ver­si­ty) with the urban plan­ning and archi­tec­tur­al dimen­sion (city center/​department store) and the sceno­graph­ic work with the col­lec­tions and teach­ing con­tent. We would like to thank the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bonn for its trust and hope that the courage to embrace hybrid­i­ty on Post­strasse will pay off in that stu­dents appre­ci­ate a stim­u­lat­ing learn­ing envi­ron­ment and vis­i­tors notice the inter­est­ing topics.