In a mission statement process, the cultural history museum August Kestner in Hanover decides to place not only the objects themselves but their meaning at the centre of the museum's future engagement.
The brochure visualises the idea of this shift in meaning: each double page shows two objects from the museum collection and combines them with an expression of the present. In this way, the past merges with the present, sometimes irritatingly, sometimes inspiringly. The individual statements of the mission statement are thus illustrated and the significance of the objects for the present becomes obvious.

Anke von Bremen

Norbert Herwig

Museum August Kestner, Hannover

Christian Rose, Museum August Kestner