MuseoMag: MuseoMag 2025_01

MuseoMag 2025_01

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Title:: Crafting stories from the archives: Creative writing at the museum

40 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we used these words to fill in the blacked-out sections in the archival texts, sparking our creativity and reimagining historical content.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 © éric chenal

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