Traditionaly the Erich kästner museum year begins with the last prepartions for the birthday celebrations on the 23rd of february with our Museum festival.
This year the theme chosen is "Generations" and is the 7th museum pictogram. Generations will focus on the importance of young and old working together to form a better future. It is a statement of dual responsibility between the generations. It is a fundamental ingredient in every civilised society. It is also a call for an awareness of the importance of diversity and sustainibility in our actions and respect towards the other living organisms on our planet so that coming generations may enjoy the beauty of our world.
However before we venture further into the unknown of 2010 let me mention a very important project we undertook last year in cooperation with our sponsor and partner, the Cultural foundation of the bank of Dresden represented by Monika Kunz.
This project is a wonderful example of young and old working together, supported by local writers, several schools in dresden undertook the task of writing a short text on "friendship".
The texts were collected and were developed further in small workshops run by professional writers. The resultuings texts were published as a collection at the end of 2009 and were presented to the children as a small gesture of gratitude for their work.
We hope that this very special project can be repeated in 2010 and will be the beginning of a long tradtion of "Generations" working together.