In May 2026, furniture from the SCHEBENTWOOD bentwood collection was featured in the student exhibition “MuMification,” held at the City Museum in Lviv. The exhibition was organized by third-year cultural studies students at the Ukrainian Catholic University as part of the “Cultural Heritage” course. The project explored how the value of objects changes over time and how ordinary everyday items become part of the city’s collective memory.
The exhibition centered on three objects: a Thonet chair, a Fledermaus chair, and a stool from the early 20th century. Through their different histories, the exhibition showed how objects transition from everyday items to museum artifacts, how their significance changes, and what influences the decision to preserve them for the future. Special attention was paid to the traces of use, repairs, losses, and transformations that accumulate over the course of an object’s life.
The project serves as an invitation to look more closely at familiar objects. After all, urban heritage consists not only of landmark buildings or monuments, but also of objects that have been part of people’s lives for decades. Thanks to the support of SCHEBENTWOOD, this furniture has been given the opportunity to tell its stories and become a catalyst for conversation about memory, value, and responsibility for the city’s material culture.
