Minister of Culture completes internship at Chemnitz Industrial Museum

In future, the German Museums Association will invite political decision-makers to take part in short museum internships. The first participant is Barbara Klepsch (CDU), this year's President of the Conference of Culture Ministers and Head of Department in Saxony. According to her ministry, she will be working behind the scenes at the Chemnitz Industrial Museum next Wednesday, cleaning objects, helping to prepare an exhibition and demonstrating "transmission with machine operation" to schoolchildren. The excursion into museum practice will be filmed and published as a short documentary.

The exclusive assignment is intended to contribute to a better understanding of the diverse and often hidden work of museums among political decision-makers, said Sylvia Willkomm, Managing Director of the German Museums Association. They learn about areas of work and challenges that they may not have previously associated with them. The aim is for them to "make well-informed decisions with a better understanding and in exchange with the museums". In future, policy should therefore regularly meet practice.