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Museo Aero Solar
This exhibition has ended.
A participatory flying sculpture made of recycled plastic bags contributed by people worldwide, embodying Tomás Saraceno's solar-powered "Aerocene" vision of fossil-fuel-free flight.
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In the Mittelhalle, bicycles hooked up to small fans push air into a balloon made of used plastic bags and gaffer tape. Studio International's critic called it a way of "using unlovely resources to make a kind of magic happen".
Saraceno started it in 2007, and people on six continents have added bags since. Monopol notes the sheet really can fly once the sun warms it. You can add to it: in the Open Atelier, staff help you glue collected bags into the next section, no booking needed. Every German kitchen has a bag full of bags, and this is where it finally gets to fly.
The hall is free, with no ticket needed for the rest of Ancestral Futures. The last Open Atelier sessions are Wednesday 14 October (2pm to 7pm) and Sunday 18 October (11am to 5pm), and on the Long Night of Museums, 17 October, you can bring bags from 2pm. The balloon leaves on 26 October, months before the rest of the show. Closed Tuesdays.
Look for
The bicycle pumps
Look for the bicycles wired to small fans: pedal power is what funnels air into the balloon indoors.
The balloon itself
A single skin of reused plastic bags and gaffer tape, added to by people on six continents since 2007, filling the monumental Mittelhalle.
The Open Atelier workbench
Bags collected during the show are glued into a new section of the balloon here, with staff on hand, and you can also build and test kites.
Good for
- An Hour Or Less
- Cheap Culture
- Rainy Days
Skip if
You want a finished object: the museum calls this an ongoing process made of plastic bags.
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- Haus der KunstAvda / www.avda-foto.de, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Stonehenge. Ancient Discoveries, New MysteriesCourtesy of Bavarian State Archaeological Collection
- Liminal SpacesCourtesy of Bavarian National Museum
- Bavarian State Archaeological CollectionBurkhard Mücke / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Bavarian National MuseumRufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Munich ResidenzAvi1111 dr. avishai teicher / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0