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Man and Environment
Agriculture and Food – From the field to the table
Across several thematic areas with numerous interactive elements, you will learn about the origins of our “daily bread” – and discover its impact and adverse effects on our health and the environment.
This exhibition provides a wonderful insight into where our food comes from and how it is produced. Presented across several thematic areas, the museum’s technology-driven, historical collection is linked to social, economic and ecological factors. In the first room, idyll and reality are juxtaposed, symbolised by an original alpine hut and a modern forage harvester. We then focus on livestock and their treatment – from breeding and husbandry to slaughter. The next thematic area is dedicated to agricultural machinery and includes a historic Lanz Bulldog tractor, a combine harvester and a prototype of a field robot. Their field of application – crop cultivation – follows in the next thematic area. At the centre of the exhibition hall in a darkened, partially mirrored room, visitors can watch a large atmospheric projection of a wheat field over the course of a year. At the far end of the exhibition, brewing kettles, a model of a brewery and a steam oven await. And the interactive food shelf provides food for thought on abundance and scarcity in the modern world.
View Inside the Agriculture and Food Exhibition
Facts and Figures
- Location: Level 3
- Exhibition space: approx. 982 m2
- Exhibits and models: approx. 200
- Media stations and demonstrationsn: 25
- Dioramas: 3
Dr. Sabine Gerber-Hirt
Leitung Hauptabteilung AI Naturwissenschaften und Kuratorin für Umwelt und Deutscher Zukunftspreis
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