FROM INSTITUTIONS TO PEOPLE 2
The Museum of Madness has established itself as a focal point for the conversation about mental health and madness, topics that are often marginalised from everyday contexts. .
The Museum of Madness has established itself as a focal point for the conversation about mental health and madness, topics that are often marginalised from everyday contexts. Talking about people with long-term mental health problems is still taboo, people are marginalised, socially excluded, invisible and unheard. In Slovenian society there is a strong belief that they are still quite well cared for behind institutional walls and that deinstitutionalisation is a utopia. In the project From Institutions to People 2, we will work intensively on expanding the network of visitors, with the aim of using the Museum of Madness as a historical example to learn why placing people in long-term care institutions harms people, communities and society. We will pay special attention to young people (students of different disciplines, high school students), lecturers, professionals from various public services and NGOs and other support services in long-term care).
We will collect testimonies from people with experience of living in an institution and/or psychiatry. We will complement the exhibition Endless Lawns of Madness with tactile elements in one part to make it more accessible to sensory disabled visitors, in an effort to be inclusive and to find solutions that make culture and cultural heritage more accessible.
Contact person: Darja Farasin,
e-mail: darja.farasin@muzejnorosti.eu,
telefon: 031 238 877
Project duration: 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024
Financier: Active Citizens Fund Programme in Slovenia (through EEA and Norway Grants))
Wine evening at Cmurek Castle, 7. September 2024
We invite you to Cmurek Castle for an unforgettable late summer evening. In the shelter of the castle walls, in one of the most beautiful Renaissance courtyards in Slovenia, a tasting of excellent wines from selected winemakers of Štajerska region will take place. We will enrich the event with an interesting cultural program.
Simon Chang exhibition opening
Simon Chang is a photographer who started photographing patients in psychiatric institutions in 2004 in Prague, where he photographed the Bohnice institution for several years. Between 2018 and 2019, he photographed the Hawler Psychiatric Hospital in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, whose cells are mainly filled with patients suffering from the effects of the recent war devastation. This time, the series of photographs is presented in Cmurek Castle, which operated as a State Asylum for the Mentally and Neurologically Ill between 1956 and 2004.
Revitalisation of Difficult Cultural Heritage (video)
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Museum of Madness, we hosted two events on June 24, 2023 at Cmurek Castle in Trate. The talks aimed at reflecting on the challenges and importance of preserving and revitalizing cultural heritage. Recordings of the talks can now be viewed on our YouTube channel.
EMPACT Workshop / Empathy for Nature
You are kindly invited to attend the two-day art embroidery workshop at the Museum of Madness Trate on Monday and Tues