The European Hansemuseum Lübeck has a special exhibition called “Good stuff. Textile worlds from the Hanseatic period to today”, which will run from October 7, 2022 to April 23, 2023.
The special exhibition will span the spectrum from the consumer revolution of the Middle Ages to today’s textile industry, with a focus on fabrics as one of the most important everyday products. The exhibition also shows how textiles connect past and present societies, and that sustainability was vital even then.
“The exhibition sheds light on the fascinating history of the production, trade and consumption of fabrics as well as the importance of clothing for medieval society,” says the text accompanying the exhibition.
A special focus is dedicated to the topic of sustainability, which explores various questions, such as how textiles and their production methods have connected past and present societies. In addition, the discussion about clothing and waste, about fair working conditions and product quality has a long history. This raises the questions of how the need for textiles can be reconciled and whether there are solutions to the current crises. What is the development of the fabrics and thus also the fashion of the future?
Accompanying the special exhibition there will be an educational program with events and workshops for children, young people and adults. A specially developed website also gives guests the opportunity to deepen the content before and during their visit to the exhibition.
The European Hanseatic Museum was opened in 2015 and is dedicated entirely to the history of the Hanseatic League. The permanent exhibition tells in four languages (German, English, Russian and Swedish) about the “daring and everyday life of merchants, about city life and trade in the Middle Ages and about the organization and assembly of the Hanseatic League 800 years ago”.
Special exhibitions, the Burgkloster monument and a program of events complement the permanent exhibition. The Research Center for the History of the Hanseatic League and the Baltic Sea Region (FGHO), which coordinates historical and interdisciplinary research on Hanseatic history, is affiliated.