Travelling Micromuseum Exhibition to visit Washington - Ruairí O'Brien

The new Travelling Micromuseum Exhibition I constructed for the famous German writer Erich Kaestner is now on its way to Washington, D.C.. The 5 flight cases were collected for shipping early this morning. The challange was to create a design that was inexpensive, light to handle, easy to transport and to assemble. It also had to be as variable as possible to ensure that it could be installed in other exhibition spaces not yet booked. Of course it also had to be beautiful.
I will be catching a flight on the 23rd of October and will take a day or two to set the exhibtion up in the beautiful auditorium of the German embassy. The building was designed in 1959 by the famous architect Egon Eiermann and has been recently refurbished. It is obviously a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity to install the traveling exhibition in such a wonderful architecture. I will be giving a short presentation about the contents of the exhibition at the opening on the 28th of October at 7 pm.
Earlier versions of the Travelling Micromuseum Exhibition have visited Salzburg, London, Tokyo and Omsk.
With this new exhibition architecture I want to present Kaestner as an urban author. Kaestner's major works have a lot to do with city life and Kaestner himself was a "cafe" writer, this has inspired me in many ways and I have decided to start a project with this exhibition where I combine my own interests in urban planning and space with Kaestner's literature. Kaestner born in Dresden, studied at the university in Leipzig and moved on to Berlin to experience the burning of the books in 1933, after the war he lived and worked in Muenchen. There is a lot to tell. First stop Washington.

http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__events/Wash/2014/10/28-KaestnerDays.html