One Theme – Four Exhibitions
«animalistic! One Theme – Four Exhibitions»
We inject ourselves with animal hormones, play drums covered with animal skin, stroke our beloved cats, and (maybe) even risk listening to sirens. The benefit is evident: skin, fat, bones, intestines are processed into violin strings, glue, ointments, and jackets. From antiquity to the present day, animals and hybrid creatures have provided guidance and protected us in the shape of amulets. Creatures like Lassie, Baloo and Bagheera from The Jungle Book, or melodious nightingales provide for entertainment.
But how has the relationship between humans and animals changed, here and elsewhere? What are the strengths and abilities attributed to animals? How do they communicate, among themselves and with us humans? What perceptions and criteria determine the relationship between humans and animals? Why is this relationship almost invariably described as ambivalent? Four Basel museums go in search of answers in the joint project «animalistic! One Theme — Four Exhibitions» and the accompanying publication.
Donators
Museum der Kulturen Basel
- Stiftung zur Förderung des Museums der Kulturen Basel
- Weitere Gönnerinnen und Gönner, die nicht genannt werden möchten
Antikenmuseum Basel
- L. + Th. La Roche-Stiftung
- Sulger Stiftung
- Stiftung «In memoriam Adolf und Margreth Im Hof-Schoch»
- Walter Senft / Gustav und Annetta Grisard Stiftung
- Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung
- Fondation Philantropique Famille Sandoz
- Frey-Clavel Stiftung
- Stiftung Exekias
- Isaac Dreyfus-Bernheim Stiftung
- Klostermann-Stiftung
- The Ramsey Foundation
Historisches Museum Basel
- Stiftung für das Historische Museum Basel
- Weitere Gönnerinnen und Gönner, die nicht genannt werden möchten
Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel
- Verein für das Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel
- Weitere Gönnerinnen und Gönner, die nicht genannt werden möchten