{"id":191,"date":"2017-10-21T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T14:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/details.travelingexhibition.com\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2017-12-05T19:38:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:38:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/details.travelingexhibition.com\/index.php\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_full width_full with_video\" style=\"margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-style: none !important;border-bottom-style: none !important;\"><div class=\"l-section-video\"><video muted loop autoplay preload=\"auto\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/details.travelingexhibition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/INTRO_02_OGG_0001-0580.mp4\" \/><\/video><\/div><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner  vc_custom_1510390080415\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column  vc_custom_1510390091513\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<span class='mb-center maxbutton-7-center'><span class='maxbutton-7-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-7 maxbutton maxbutton-menu\" title=\"MENU - Traveling Exhibition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/details.travelingexhibition.com\/\"><span class='mb-text'>MENU<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner  vc_custom_1508916111190\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The exhibition \u2018Between Life &amp; Death \u2013 Rites of Farewell\u2019 connects life and death.<\/span><\/h2>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n[rev_slider_vc alias=&#8220;SCROLL-PFEIL&#8220;]<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><!-- Row Backgrounds --><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_full width_full\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-right-width: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner  vc_custom_1508606397357\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner  vc_custom_1510240672685\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<h5 lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Main Message<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1. \u2018Between Life &amp; Death \u2013 Rites of Farewell from Stone Age to Present Times\u2019 is about all of us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Worldwide, from the Stone Age until our time, and in communities of the most wide-ranging cultural connections &#8211; we all share the same destiny as human beings.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">At \u2018Between Life &amp; Death \u2013 Rites of Farewell\u2019, the visitors get to experience a variety of farewell- and death-rituals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. Death separates &#8211; but the fear of it, and mourning rites, unites.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"en-GB\">Most often communal, the rituals offer the living a comforting setting for their mourning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Rites and customs of farewell to the dead are diverse and often exceptional. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-GB\">At &#8218;Between Life &amp; Death \u2013 Rites of Farewell&#8216;, the visitors get to better appreciate their own part in the life cycle of humankind.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">3. <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">For millennia, we, the human beings, have been trying to understand the painful and incomprehensible experience of death.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Through repression, man seeks to fend off the fear of death.<\/li>\n<li>Explaining death constitute an essential element of human culture. (J. Assmann)<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-GB\">&#8218;Between Life &amp; Death \u2013 Rites of Farewell&#8216; tells stories about rebirth, conceptions of a possible afterlife, cultures of remembrance, tabooing, and myth formation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-GB\">4. Mourning and mourning-rites help the ones left behind at overcoming the loss.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Death rites accompany the dead on their way to the beyond.<\/li>\n<li>Mourning rites connect life and death.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Between Life &amp; Death \u2013 Rites of Farewell\u2019 shows, through exhibits from archaeology, European and non-European ethnology, modern art, and by means of audio installations and dance, a wide range of mourning rites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-GB\">5. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Sensational exhibits on loan bear witness to the human quest for consolation from death.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large museums, like the Landesmuseum Ober\u00f6sterreich, the University of Vienna, the V\u00f6lkerkunde Museum Z\u00fcrich, the Nieders\u00e4chsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, and further notable international institutions, provide sensational loans bearing witness of the human quest for consolation from death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">6. Teamwork of renowned scientists.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A team of renowned scientists from psychology, anthropology, archaeology, history, medical ethics, European and non-European ethnology, and a funeral orator, all contribute to strengthening the seriousness of the exhibition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>7. Expressive design and multi-media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A modern, expressive, and subtle design enhances the emotional impact of the exhibition, but also offers exciting entertainment.<\/li>\n<li>Individual hands-on- and multimedia-elements, carefully chosen for their thematic suitability, make the visit to the exhibition also a vivid sensory experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 570px; height: 1110px; border: 0; text-align: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/assets\/media\/interactives\/2013\/10\/death-map\/index.html?v=1\" width=\"570px\" height=\"1110px\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"middle\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1002 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/details.travelingexhibition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/worldometers-logo-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"28\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class='mb-center maxbutton-7-center'><span class='maxbutton-7-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-7 maxbutton maxbutton-menu\" title=\"MENU - Traveling Exhibition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/details.travelingexhibition.com\/\"><span class='mb-text'>MENU<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><!-- Row Backgrounds -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MENU The exhibition \u2018Between Life &amp; Death \u2013 Rites of Farewell\u2019 connects life and death. 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