"Hesse under power"
January 21 - April 8, 2018
Vernissage: Sunday, January 21, 2018, 3 pm, admission free.
Guided tours:
January 31, 2018, February 21, 2018, March 14, 2018,
March 28, 2018, each at 6 pm.
Regular admission prices, no registration required.
Curator guided tour
Dr. Ulrich Eisenbach
Sunday, March 11, 2018, 11 a.m.
Regular admission prices. No registration required.
Family breakfast:
Sunday, January 28, 2018, 10 a.m.
10 € admission (including breakfast)
Lectures:
"The rise and fall of the German nuclear industry"
Prof. Joachim Radkau
Friday, February 2, 2018, 6 p.m.
Regular admission prices. No registration required.
"Electromobility in Offenbach"
Electromobility office
Project management office for federal projects
Friday, March 2, 2018, 6 p.m.
Regular admission prices. No registration required.
Electricity has become an indispensable part of our lives. How has it developed from a luxury good to a commodity for everyone? This question is addressed in the traveling exhibition "Hessen unter Strom" (Hesse under electricity), conceived by the Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Darmstadt e.V. and the Hessenpark Open-Air Museum. Selected exhibits are used to illustrate the history of progress in the electricity industry in Hesse from 1880 to the present day. For example, are you familiar with the Sanitas hot-air shower with the model name "Foen"?
Family breakfast on Sunday, January 28, 2018, 10 a.m.
10 € admission per family / incl. breakfast. Registration by Wednesday, January 24, 2018rebekka.kremershofoffenbachde / 069 80 65 24 75).
The Haus der Stadtgeschichte invites you to a joint parent-child breakfast. We will guide you through the exhibition "Hessen unter Strom", while we have everything ready for the little family members to get creative. Here they can paint, build or knead and work with different materials. Children should wear clothes that don't mind paint splashes.
Lecture "The rise and fall of the German nuclear industry" on Friday, February 2, 2018, 6 p.m.
By Prof. Joachim Radkau
Regular admission prices. No registration required.
From today's perspective, the rise and fall of the German nuclear industry appears to be a drama on a grand scale: events begin with the strangely unmotivated nuclear euphoria of the 1950s, when the "peaceful atom" did not even exist in reality, and culminate in an escalation of the counter-movement from 1975, just as the nuclear lobby triumphed after the 1973 oil crisis and even floating nuclear power plants were being planned in the Wadden Sea. The state of Hesse played a prominent role in this zigzag of nuclear futures from beginning to end: from the Eltville nuclear program of 1957 to the Hanau scandal after Chernobyl.
Lecture "Electromobility in Offenbach" on Friday, March 02, 2018, 6 p.m.
Electromobility Office
Federal Project Management Office
Regular admission prices. No registration required.
Offenbach has taken on a pioneering role in the field of e-mobility with various "electromobility" projects. The package of measures from the city and municipal utilities consists of the use of electric cars in company fleets, free parking for e-cars in public parking lots and an innovative e-car and pedelec sharing service with six rental stations in the Offenbach city area (from 2018). Those responsible in Offenbach have also set themselves specific targets for the electrification of the city bus fleet: By 2023, 30 percent of buses are to be converted to environmentally friendly drive technology and the first e-buses will be in regular service in 2019.
Curator tour with Dr. Ulrich Eisenbach on Sunday, 11 March 2018, 11 a.m.
Regular admission prices. No registration required.
The director of the Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Darmstadt e.V., Dr. Ulrich Eisenbach, who was instrumental in designing the exhibition, offers an in-depth, scientific insight into the topic as part of his guided tour. The speaker will pay particular attention to the use of electricity in the course of the history of progress in the Hessian electricity industry.