Simone Mergen deals with audience-oriented history communication in museums. Since 2022, she has headed the education and visitor service department at the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany and is an expert in exhibition didactics, educational programs and audience research. She led the complete redesign of the museum’s permanent exhibition. She previously worked in various positions at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main, the State Museum Koblenz and the NS Documentation Center Cologne. As a lecturer at the Institute of History at the University of Cologne, chairwoman of the State Association of Museum Education in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the Education Working Group of the German Museum Association and as co-founder of the Visitor Research Network, she is committed to shaping the museums of the future. She studied history and German at the University of Bonn.
Mit Stephan Beuting, Dr. Simone Mergen and Christiane Florin
Wie öffnen sich öffentliche Institutionen für neue Zielgruppen, ohne ihre bisherigen zu verlieren? Simone Mergen und Christiane Florin diskutieren, was der Deutschlandfunk vom Haus der Geschichte lernen kann und wo Öffnung Grenzen hat.
Mit Dr. Simone Mergen
Wie erreicht man Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Vorkenntnissen und Interessen? Der Deep Dive gibt Einblicke in publikumsorientierte Museumsarbeit und zeigt, wie Publikumsforschung, Fokusgruppen und Outreach-Projekte eingesetzt werden. Gemeinsam diskutieren wir, was der Journalismus daraus lernen kann.