A real eye-catcher - a display window for the Chemnitz Museum of Natural History
Invitation to the press event: 19 June, 11 a.m., at the TIETZ shop window Moritzstraße
On Friday, 19 June 2020, 11 a.m., the Museum für Naturkunde invites representatives of the media to a press conference in front of the TIETZ shop window at Moritzstraße 20 (near the Moritzstraße bus stop). The museum is visible to passers-by "in passing" in the shop window.
Museology student Yasmin Schmidt, who designed the shop window during her six-month internship, will present her work directly on site. She and curator Dr Thorid Zierold will provide insights into other results, including digital walking tours created in collaboration with the Chemnitz-based software company FusionSystems.
The display window directly next to the Moritzstraße bus stop draws attention to the beauty and diversity of nature from a bygone era in a very small space. At the centre of this backdrop is the reconstruction of a Chemnitz prehistoric dinosaur Ascendonanus nestleri on a recreated fossil tree trunk. The extinct lizard-like creatures were embedded in a volcanic eruption 291 million years ago and found as a fossil by Chemnitz scientists during excavations in Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf in 2010.
The original of the small tree climber was scanned using a 3D process in collaboration with the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and then printed as a coloured 3D model in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB). However, the fine nuances of the fossil imprint could only be worked out through manual preparation by Holger Rathaj.
Background university internship:
To learn about museum work in practice, museology students at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences complete a six-month practical semester. Yasmin Schmidt came to the Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz for this. She gained experience in digitisation and collection work, exhibition construction and education. The internship also included an independent project lasting seven weeks. Based on surveys of non-visitors, Yasmin Schmidt was given the task of improving the visibility of the Museum of Natural History at the TIETZ. The subject was a shop window front on Moritzstraße that was difficult to access.