An audio guide for the basketry museum in Buschdorf, produced by Anne Göhring and Olaf Selg of Berlin's LAND-LAB in cooperation with the Letschin Work Initiative and experts on pasture and basketry.
The Basketry Museum in the Old School in Buschdorf, a heritage site in the Oderbruch, houses a rich collection of objects that largely owe their origin to the "bread tree of the Oderbruch", the willow. With the early death of the founder and director of the museum, the basket maker Thea Müller, a treasure of experience with a lot of knowledge about the production and meaning of many exhibits has unfortunately been lost. The aim of the audio guide project is to fill these information gaps again as best as possible. To this end, background information on the pasture and the museum's pasture exhibits will be collected with the help of interviews and made permanently available.
Basic questions arise first about the significance and description of the willow plant in the landscape, for example: Which species are characteristic for the Oderbruch and how can they be recognized? What are they used for? How has man changed the landscape or nature with the willow?
Central to the project are the description of the craft or the processing of the willow (What is the situation of the craft? Which willows are used for basket weaving?) as well as explanations of selected exhibits in the basket museum, for example about the use of very different baskets in everyday life. This also includes an outlook on the future of the renewable material willow and the possibility of making it attractive for new uses through further developed products.