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Art for everyone: Experience the Freising Diocesan Museum barrier-free now!
In Freising, the art historian Christina Metz offers telephone tours of James Turrell's light installation in the Diocesan Museum.
Art for everyone: Experience the Freising Diocesan Museum barrier-free now!
In Freising, culture is now even more tangible - especially for people with disabilities. An impressive telephone tour of the museum, initiated by the “Culture on Call” project, recently attracted a lot of attention. City guide and art historian Christina Metz led one such tour, where she introduced listeners to the fascinating light installations by renowned artist James Turrell. How South Germans reported, a visually impaired woman was one of the participants who inquired by telephone about the unique art installation in the house chapel of the former Freising boys' seminar.
Christina Metz talentedly explained the special features of the light installation, which dissolves the boundaries between light, color and space in an exciting way. Her knowledge and experience as an art educator benefited the participants as she described the Cathedral Hill and the Diocesan Museum, a neoclassical building from 1870. 25 people from different cities, including Berlin, Kiel and Cologne, registered for the tour - clear evidence of the popularity of this initiative.
Art and inclusion
The light installation by James Turrell, entitled “A CHAPEL FOR LUKE and his scribe Lucius the Cyrene”, also refers to the important Byzantine painting of Luke in the Diocesan Museum. This picture depicts the Virgin Mary and, according to tradition, was painted by St. Luke himself. Architecturally, both works are arranged on the same line of sight. Turrell's installation extends his Ganzfeld series and conveys to visitors a state in which the boundaries of space and time disappear - an experience that leads visitors into meditative situations, because here people can no longer perceive the boundaries of space, like that Freising Diocesan Museum highlights.
Inclusion in art is a central concern that is taken up by many institutions. Doris Rothauer, author and editor of MuseumsGuide Inclusive, emphasizes that access to art and culture should be guaranteed for all people, without exclusion. In their view, art and culture are elementary building blocks for social development and human experience. After Declaration of Human Rights from 1948, people with disabilities also have the right to cultural participation, which must be ensured through accessibility and inclusion.
The “On Call Culture” initiative stands for low-threshold, barrier-free cultural communication. With over 100 participating houses across Germany that are actively committed to cultural participation, access to art for people with disabilities is being massively improved. Christina Metz is already planning the next telephone tour on December 20th, in which she would like to talk about a special exhibition on the Italian Renaissance.
Such projects not only create a good feeling about the cultural offerings in Freising, but also throughout the country - a holistic perspective that aims to ensure that no one is excluded. If art and culture are truly aimed at all people, then every step towards inclusion is a step in the right direction.