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Mokha, the former main export harbour for coffee is shaped by poverty and decline today.
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Exhibition "Caravans – Trade Routes between Orient and Occident"
 
An exhibition in cooperation of the Nuremberg DB Museum and the Nuremberg Museum of Arab Culture Association
 
6 December 2011 until 29 April 2012
In the Nuremberg DB Museum
 
Subject of the exhibition ist traffic and mobility as the basis for an inter-cultural exchange. Caravans and traffic – of whatever kind – were and are transporting goods, knowledge, cultural values and people. They were and they are the key to build cultural as well as economic bridges. It shall be demonstrated that this principle is independent from the forms of traffic and mobility and may change during time.
 
The focus to the European and Arab World as neighbouring regions is just an excellent example for this principle: In the past, camels on the incense and the silk roads were important links for the trade ralations between Orient and Occident. Nowadays, they are replaced by airplanes, cargo ships, trains and trucks. Ago, caravansaries were the hubs of traffic, such as railway stations, harbours and airports are today. Changed have the goods; and regarding logistics, modern technologies have replaced traditional knowledge about nature.
 
Guided tours in English through the exhibition can be booked at the DB Museum.
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