This year, Ballenberg will not be focussing on a single relocated museum building, but on one that was already there before the museum was founded – a former military barracks. For one day, this will represent the usually temporary and socially neglected barrack-type construction that is nevertheless an integral part of modern society.
In cooperation with ETH Zurich and as part of the A future for whose past? project, Rune Frandsen will talk about his dissertation that discusses the living conditions and therefore also the accommodation of the thousands of workers who built the gigantic Grande Dixence hydroelectric power plant in Valais in the 1950s and 1960s. The Ballenberg barracks will act as both a stage and a gallery. The building is now a common room for the operations team and visitors to the museum will also have the opportunity to take a look inside it over a cup of coffee, tea or squash.
The presentation will take place at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm.
In German, English and French
In cooperation with ETH Zurich and as part of the A future for whose past? project, Rune Frandsen will talk about his dissertation that discusses the living conditions and therefore also the accommodation of the thousands of workers who built the gigantic Grande Dixence hydroelectric power plant in Valais in the 1950s and 1960s. The Ballenberg barracks will act as both a stage and a gallery. The building is now a common room for the operations team and visitors to the museum will also have the opportunity to take a look inside it over a cup of coffee, tea or squash.
The presentation will take place at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm.
In German, English and French
Dates
Saturday, the 13.09.2025
10:00 - 17:00 o'clock
Sunday, the 14.09.2025
10:00 - 17:00 o'clock
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Price info
Included in museum admission.
Contact person
Ballenberg, Freilichtmuseum der Schweiz
Museumsstrasse 100
3858 Hofstetten
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