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A Taste of Europe: East European Workers on Danish Farms |
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27 January - 30 July 2011
The forthcoming special exhibition at The Workers’ Museum A taste of Europe - Eastern Europeans Working in Danish Agriculture samples European food and takes the temperature of the labour market in which this food is produced.
Taking pigs as our point of departure we examine both culinary culture and food production. Why do we eat the way we do? Who are those thousands of workers from Eastern Europe who produce our pigs?
By drawing a historical parallel to the large immigration waves into agriculture around 1900, the exhibition takes up a more general discussion of some major present-day political issues in the Danish labour market and for the welfare state – issues that will be examined in further detail in lectures and workshops.
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JOHN KØRNER Women for Sale |
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27 August – 29 December 2011
In the autumn of 2011, John Kørner will fill the special exhibition rooms of the Workers’ Museum with graphics and entirely new paintings.
The point of departure for these images is the foreign women working as prostitutes in Denmark. The Exhibition ‘Women for Sale’ will thus be a topical comment – from the artist’s perspective – on the problem of trafficking in women.
All the works are being shown for the first time, and the paintings will arrive directly from the artist’s studio. |
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Revolution and Civil War in Finland 1918 |
Temporary exhibition September 11th - December 30th 2010
Bloody civil war, revolution, and executions – things like that couldn’t happen in the Nordic countries, could they? Yes they could, and they did less than a hundred years ago in Finland – only we’ve all forgotten.
The Workers’ Museum does something about this state of affairs in a new special exhibition: Revolution and civil war in Finland 1918.
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Erik Hagens: Everyday Life – Presented in Paintings from the 1960s till Today |
Temporary exhibition April
24th – August 15th 2010
Since the 1960s, Erik Hagens has consistently, and with great social engagement, drawn and painted pictures of today’s people, living in a world characterized by pollution, consumerism and a constant bombardment by the mass media.
Because Erik Hagens holds a position all his own in the world of Danish art, and because there has been no major, comprehensive presentation of his work since 1994, The Workers' Museum has decided to let his 70th birthday on the 21st of April, 2010, serve as the occasion for a retrospective exhibition.
Erik Hagens’ pictures invite comparison with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. They tell a good story, while at the same time uncovering several underlying layers and taking a sharp, critical look at the reality being illustrated. His art is thus both thought-provoking and a sight for sore eyes, often approaching a propagandistic social criticism.
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Prime Ministers – 8 Social Democrats |
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Temporary exhibition on the lives of Danish Prime Ministers
Prime Ministers – 8 Social Democrats
13.6.2009.-5.4.2010
[Reviews - in Danish only]
In 2009 the Labour Movement's Library and Archives (ABA) celebrated their 100 years anniversary. The Workers' Museum and ABA mark the occasion by an exhibition about the 8 Danish Social Democratic prime ministers. The exhibition runs from 13.06.2009 to 05.04.2010.
ABA's extensive and interesting archives, donated by the Social Democratic prime ministers, deserve to be shown to the public which is why this particular exhibition has been chosen for the anniversary.
In 1924 the Social Democratic Party came into office for the first time and Denmark got its first Prime Minister with a working class background, Thorvald Stauning.
ABA’s prime minister archives were founded in 1942 when Thorvald Stauning died and his archive and a great deal of his personal belongings were donated to the institution. This started the tradition that Social Democratic prime ministers donate their documents, notebooks, diaries, photographs etc. to ABA. In addition to Thorvald Stauning, the collection includes the archives of Hans Hedtoft, H.C. Hansen, Viggo Kampmann, Jens Otto Krag, Anker Jørgensen and Poul Nyrup Rasmussen. Vilhelm Buhl’s archive is stored, as the only example, in the Danish State Archives.
 Read more about the 8 social democratic prime ministers in ABA's collections. [in Danish only]
The exhibition offers an exceptional insight into ABA's and the Workers' Museum's collection of prime ministers’ archives and possessions, which are normally carefully stored in archive boxes and museum storage rooms.
The exhibition covers a wide variety of topics; it shows the diversity of ABA’s prime minister archives, gives an insight into individual political activities and the path to power of Social Democratic prime ministers. The exhibition also discloses personal details of the prime ministers in relation to their job, the conditions, the responsibilities and the various ways in which prime ministers, their wives and families have coped with the position and life as prime minister.
The exhibition has received financial support from: Augustinus Fonden, Dansk El-forbund, Dansk Jernbaneforbund, Dansk Metal, LO's Kultur og Projektpulje, Socialdemokraterne, Grafisk Almenvelgørende Fond, 3F's Medie- og Kulturfond.
In connection with the exhibition The Workers' Museum and ABA published an anthology with contributions by reputable authors. The book serves also as exhibition catalogue and contains a large number of photos and illustrative material from the exhibition itself. The book received financial support from 'Fremad's Jubilæumsfond'.
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