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MuseoMag   N°I 2025 
Archival texts, newspapers and exhibition flyers served as springboards for inspiration in this creative writing workshop at 
the museum. 
CRAFTING STORIES   
FROM THE ARCHIVES 
Creative writing at the museum 
Last year, our museum attic became the setting for 
an inspiring encounter between the treasures of the 
past and the creative imagination of our participants 
in the workshop “Wordswoven Histories”. Filled 
with words and images from the past, the archival 
collections of the Lëtzebuerger Konschtarchiv and 
the museum were ready to be transformed into 
something new. Blacked-out archival texts, news- 
papers and exhibition flyers served as springboards 
for inspiration. Pens scribbled furiously, borrowing 
fragments of history and coming up with new crea- 
tions. The result? Surprising and unexpected texts 
and collages that emerged as if out of the blue. 
WEAVING WORDS, WEAVING STORIES 
Participants used various strategies to piece their 
stories together. First, we explored different roles in 
the art world, collecting words that we associated 
with artists, curators, gallerists and others. Next, we 
used these words to fill in the blacked-out sections 
in the archival texts, sparking our creativity and 
reimagining historical content. Finally, participants 
were encouraged to interact more freely with the 
material – exhibition flyers, newspapers, digitised 
archives and more. This process was guided by one 
simple question: what inspires you? 
Some drew inspiration from the visual material 
found in the archives while others played around 
with words or textual elements. We also shared our 
processes or methods, such as creating poems from 
exhibition titles or making collages and translating 
them into words. Thus, it was not only the archival 
material that sparked inspiration, but also the indivi- 
dual methods that were shared within the group in 
collaborative fashion. 
TYING KNOTS 
To share the knowledge and experience gained 
during the workshops, we invited the participants to 
contribute to this article, offering a space to show- 
case some of their work. The full texts are avai- 
lable on our MuseoBlog.  This initiative is part of the 
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