Why am I human Automatic translate

On March 30, the Gilyarovsky Center, a branch of the Museum of Moscow, will open an exhibition of Nadia Pantyulina. “Why I am human” is an exhibition-reflection, an intellectual game, a journey into oneself and autoethnography. The project was organized by the Timiryazev State Biological Museum and the Museum of Moscow with the support of the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation.

Behind big museum themes like heritage, technology, industry and biological evolution, the experience and feelings of the individual can be lost. And the visitors who come to the exposition in its classical sense do not always manage to combine the acquired knowledge with their lives. “Why Am I Human” fundamentally changes this approach and presents an exposition about a person from the point of view of his everyday perception of the world around him and his inner experiences. This is an exhibition about a person and for a person, this is a story about modern people, their feelings and relationships with each other - about feelings, mistakes, choices, doubts, trust and misunderstanding.

Visitors will be able to discover millions of years of family ties and gain knowledge that will help them understand their own and other people’s behavior. The exposition will combine understanding of the nature of the human body and soul.

The exhibition offers its own language for describing and discussing a rapidly changing world, where the most important skill is the ability to negotiate with those who are different.

The exposition consists of nine sections: "World", "Environment", "Borders", "Individuality", "Connections", "Value", "Security", "Understanding", "Future". Each of them is made up of a wide variety of objects that have been created, collected and preserved by people, and is designed in such a way as to help you see unexpected connections along the path of human evolution and follow your own feelings. The texts for the exhibition will help to consider in detail each museum object in close connection with human feelings and historical events and carry it away in memory.

The author of the project is Nadezhda Pantyulina, senior researcher at the State Biological Museum named after K. A. Timiryazev, senior researcher at the Intercenter research department of the MHSES, leading expert of the Cultural Heritage Research Center of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI. Author and curator of the traveling exhibition of the State Biological Museum named after K.A. Timiryazev "Dried - to believe."

The project was implemented with a grant from the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation of the Museum 4.0 competition of the Museum Without Borders program in the New Challenges nomination.