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Archive
Where documented witnesses, research notes and provenance gather.
About
Following the traces of a living story.
The Mushkil Gusha Institute is an independent space for research, storytelling and living transmission.
At its centre is Mushkil Gusha — a story that has travelled through languages, places and generations, taking different forms along the way.
The Institute follows these traces in manuscripts, printed versions, oral tellings, recordings and contemporary retellings. It does not seek a definitive version or a binding interpretation.
The public rooms
Four rooms. Four ways into the story.
Each room approaches the same material from a different direction. Together they form the public working space of the Institute.
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Story Loom
Where tellings can be taken apart, compared and woven together again.
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Reading Room
Where different forms of the story can be read and considered side by side.
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Living Map
Where encounters with Mushkil Gusha can become visible across the world.
A work in progress
Built to grow with the work.
The Institute creates spaces in which the story can be read, heard, compared and experienced in its different forms. What is uncertain remains uncertain; what is newly found can change the picture.
The aim is not to explain the story once and for all, but to make its traces, variations and living transmission accessible with curiosity, care and respect.
Mushkil Gusha Institute · Story Research and Living Transmission
An independent initiative by Thomas Lüthy and Nicole Ritter-Lüthy.