The ZOOM Children's Museum in the Museumsquartier in Vienna enables children and young people to engage with various topics from art, science and culture in a playful way and with all their senses. The focus of the winter exhibition is “communication”.
Through encounters with art, dialogue with artists and joyful, open-ended activities with others, individual skills and interests are recognized and further developed. The children's museum creates spaces in which new things can be tried out, discovered and explored in a relaxed atmosphere and at your own pace.
Exhibitions, play stations, objects, artistic installations and workshops designed according to the hands-on principle arouse curiosity and stimulate children's creativity. The ZOOM Children's Museum offers four different areas for visitors aged 0 to 14 on 1,600 square meters and in its green courtyard.
Mimikama is providing various contributions to the hands-on exhibition on the topic of communication that opened today (October 5th, 2022).
Here children and young people have the opportunity to expand their own verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
You can ask questions, research, work and play in ZOOM. In exhibition and studio rooms specially designed for children, topics from art, science and everyday culture can be explored in a playful way.

“Communication is complex, multi-layered, diverse, but good communication can be really fun and a good mood!” says Christian Ganzer, department manager and curator of the ZOOM interactive exhibition. The exhibition concept should therefore emphasize these important, creative aspects of communication and communication experts
Together, 20 hands-on stations were developed where the children can come into contact with each other in a playful way, with and without words. They overcome language barriers, crack codes, groove with each other, write letters, manipulate their voices and moderate news. Ganzer goes on to say, “The exhibition aims to sensitize children to interaction and invite them to try out the diverse possibilities of communication.”
“We were very happy to accept the ZOOM Children’s Museum’s request for cooperation!” says Andre Wolf, press spokesman for Mimikama. “To this extent, we have developed and produced an explanatory video as well as various materials that allow children and young people to practice using research on the Internet in a playful but effective way. In this way, they directly experience the work processes that occur in everyday journalistic life.” There were also workshops for the team’s internal training.
The ZOOM NEWSROOM in the Children's Museum
Especially with the ZOOM NEWSROOM, the ZOOM Children's Museum is offering schools and groups the opportunity for the first time to attend their own 90-minute workshop linked to the hands-on exhibition. In this, the children directly experience how media works using a hands-on principle.
In the ZOOM NEWSROOM they slip into the role of journalists and produce their own news. This raises questions such as: How well was the research done? How do I check my sources? And what exactly is fake news?
“Communication is everything, it determines our everyday lives and influences each and every one of us – whether in private or in public. How important communication is for all of us together becomes particularly clear in times of crisis. I would therefore like to thank ZOOM for tackling this extremely important topic in a child-friendly way.
Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna City Councilor for Culture and Science
Since media is part of our everyday life and news reaches us around the clock, we should practice competent and conscious handling of content and critical reflection on media. The news produced by the young visitors will be made available on a ZOOM NEWSROOM homepage for other interested media consumers.
This year's interactive exhibition “With and without words” is in tune with the times and deals with media, communication and linguistic diversity. A successful program that I would like to recommend to families, children and young people!”
Christoph Wiederkehr, Vienna's deputy mayor and city councilor for education and youth
Further information about the ZOOM Children's Museum
Website for information: https://www.kindermuseum.at/
Association ZOOM Children's Museum - Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
Photos © Natali Glisic
Use of the image material exclusively for press purposes in direct connection with the ZOOM Children's Museum and with indication of copyright.

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