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The Bioversum, the open-air laboratory and the Jagdschloss Kranichstein Museum are open again. Museum educators offer exclusive tours for small groups.
Eye-catching adhesive strips on the floor, which point the way, interactive screens that you shouldn’t touch, and headphones that visitors are not allowed to put on: the Bioversum and the hunting lodge in the Darmstadt district of Kranichstein have reopened, but the two museums also apply because of the corona pandemic, the country’s current requirements. This means that visitors must cover their mouths and noses, keep a distance of at least one and a half meters from others, and the hygiene regulations are observed. A maximum of eight visitors at the same time may, for example, be in the exhibition space of the Bioversum in the arsenal of the hunting lodge on Kranichsteiner Straße at the same time.
The team around museum director Onno Faller and curator Scarlett Umlauf has therefore adapted the interactive exhibition in the Bioversum to the current restrictions. The interactive stations have now been digitally prepared. “Walking through the exhibition with your own smartphone can be a whole new museum experience,” says Faller and Umlauf. For other previously interactive stations, digital or analog solutions are also to be developed in order to convey knowledge as contactlessly as possible. A bird’s voice game can also be used with the help of QR codes without touching it. The museum also offers a newly developed quiz to explore the exhibition in the museum rooms. Communication with each other – for example between parents and children – should also be promoted.
Visitor information
The bioversum, Kranichsteiner Straße 253, is open Tuesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The museumJagdschloss Kranichstein, Kranichsteiner Straße 261, is open from Wednesday to Friday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Free parkingare available in front of both museums.
The entrycosts five euros, reduced three euros.
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The Bioversum open-air laboratory also reopened in the summer months. According to Faller, additional seating has also been installed there so that guests can linger and eat their own food and drinks.
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Because the planned event program cannot take place due to the Corona crisis, which affects the 20 or so free museum employees in particular because they cannot work, museum educators offer an individually created program for individuals or people in a household. With a biologist, the fascinating world of insects, a stream, the forest or a meadow can be discovered and researched for 45 euros per appointment.
The entrance to the Jagdschloss Kranichstein museum has been moved to the castle park. In the museum, children can use three large research boxes with twelve objects or design an exhibition themselves like a curator. In addition, 100 weapons that were previously not publicly accessible were integrated into the museum’s permanent exhibition. The planned special exhibition “Already repaired or still to be saved?” Should not open until September.
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