Hammamed - Exhibtion - exhibiton on the move (2010)

A multimedia exhibition will grow over the project period and show parts of it at the respective days of hammam and finally at the final project conference. It will contain old photos of traditional hammams, artist impressions, photos from different functioning hammams, traditional utilities used in or connected with traditional hammams, cultural performances: old movies showing hammams, also collected music and songs dealing with hammams and the like.

Hammam as a Ritual (July 2008)

The final events of the HAMMAM-project took place at the international conference in Damascus, Syria, lasting from 13th to 16th of July 2008 with the exhibition "The Hammam as a Ritual" in Hammam Fetehi, a restored, but not functioning Hammam, that is used for concerts and for the first time for an exhibition, and a street festival in the neighborhood Al- Uqayba on Friday, July18th, 2008.

The exhibition organized a journey through the hamam Fetehi, summarizing the research project and its main results and findings. Every room of the hammam was dedicated to a special topic - and presented on a traditional artefact of the hammam, the typical towel. The entrance hall gave the overall perspective of the hamam as a very special vernacular cultural heritage site, and each of the other rooms gave space to one of the five studied hammams. The visitors could look at the photos, plans and texts, printed on displays, in the shape and with the local patterns of the hammam towel. The pathway led from light to dark, from dry to wet, from the outside to the inside world. It also gave insight into the interdisciplinary quality of the research and showed multicultural aspects of the various rituals and usages: The hammam, part of the collective memory of the Islamic countries. Video films showed interviews and statements of people of the neighbourhood, of local stakeholders and of the participating. Visitors could also investigate a data basis that showed detailed information about hammams worldwide.