Pedagogy and politics: avant-garde strategies for founding museums

Abstract

Instead of contrasting economics and culture, Otto Neurath and his colleagues advocated the development of a common language that combined content based on economic explanations with a representational technique aimed at renewing the artistic language used in politics. In her study, Eszter Őze examines the educational project of the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum (Social and Economic Museum) in Vienna, which they founded.