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| Free admission |
| Duration: 60 min |
| 14 years and older |
| German |
| Ethnologisches Museum, 2. OG |
| max. 15 persons |
| Belongs to: Ethnological Collections and Asian Art |
Diplomatic gifts, purchases, war campaigns and situations of highly unequal power relations: The collections of the Ethnologisches Museum came to Berlin in many different ways.
Using selected exhibits, provenance researchers invite visitors to talk about the complex changes of ownership and appropriation contexts. The exhibition tour provides insights into the history of the museum as well as current cooperation projects that deal with the colonial heritage in order to develop new visions for the future of the collections.
Following the tour, there will be an opportunity to discuss the methods and challenges of post-colonial provenance research.
Participants
Julia Richard works at the Central Archive of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, where she deals with colonial photography and the role of missionaries in the translocation of cultural assets as part of postcolonial provenance research.
Sophia Bokop is a provenance researcher in the project “The Collaborative Museum” at the Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst. Together with international partners, she researches selected collections and their contexts of acquisition, appropriation and translocation as part of collaborative, transdisciplinary projects.
Birgit Sporleder is a provenance researcher for archaeological collections at the Central Archive. She deals with the historical circumstances of excavations, acquisitions and the export of archaeological objects from their countries of origin to Berlin.