Home Sweet Home. The Archaeology of Domestic Life at SMAC – Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz

In 1930 the Danish designer and educator Kaare Klint opined that in terms of furniture and furnishings, “Problemerne er ikke saa nye, de er i mange Tilfælde løst før“, “the problems are not so new, they have in many cases been solved before”.¹

With the exhibition Home Sweet Home. The Archaeology of Domestic Life, SMAC – Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz, test that theory to extreme levels, and also expand it beyond furniture and furnishings to all aspects of domestic arrangements and domesticity over the past 30,000 years…….

Die Stadt. Between Skyline and Latrine at the smac – Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz

Globally some 2 billion of us live in a city of more than 500,000 inhabitants.¹

A number that is progressively growing.

But what does “city” mean?

Not lexicographically, but physically, culturally, socially, politically, economically, morally, etc, etc, etc?

With the exhibition Die Stadt. Between Skyline and Latrine the smac – Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz attempt to approach possible answers……