Unikatum Children's Museum, Leipzig


The Unikatum Children's Museum a cultural institution with changing annual exhibitions on social issues in Leipzig, Germany. The interactive exhibitions for "Participation and Discovery" are aimed primarily at schools and families.

Museum

The Children's Museum was founded in 2010 by exhibition planner Annegret Hänsel and has been run by her on a voluntary basis ever since. The institution is supported by a Gemeinnützige GmbH and supported by a booster club. The vast majority of the operation of the museum is made possible by voluntary work. In 2017, the museum was significantly expanded and since then has offered space for several exhibitions, a courtyard garden and the coffeehouse "Museumscafé Goetz", which is also used for exhibitions.
In 2012, the museum received the Sächsischer Preis für soziokulturelles Engagement from the Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Sachsen. In 2014, the Unikatum Children's Museum won first place in the Familienfreundlichkeitspreis der Stadt Leipzig.

Exhibitions

Every year, school students participate in the development and design of the new annual exhibition as part of a summer workshop. The location is the refurbished "Café Goetz" building in the Plagwitz locality of Leipzig.
  • 2010/2011: "Shillings and sixpence – a playful history of money"
  • 2011/2012: "Oh God – a journey through the world of faith"
  • 2012/2013: "About Time"
  • 2013/2014: “Balderdash – Adventures in the jungle of language”
  • 2014/2015: "Heartbeat – rollercoaster of emotions"
  • 2015/2016: "The City Machine"
  • 2016/2017: "The Crazy World Hotel"
  • 2017/2018: "Oh dear time!" – new, revised presentation
  • since 2017: "Inventing the Future - Utopias between Doubt and Vision"
  • since 2017: "The Kingdom of Imagination"
  • 2017/2018: "Lots of Love"
  • 2018/2019: "Bionics - Nature's idea laboratory"
  • since 2019: "World of Plenty" with “Garden of Plenty”
  • 2019/2020: "Climate Rally"
  • since 2020: "If I were mayor"