Restitution. A long story?
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| free admission |
| 2nd Floor, Meeting Point F |
| Duration: 60 min |
| max. 30 persons |
Provenance research deals intensively with the appropriation and acquisition contexts of museum collections. But what are the legal and ethical foundations for their restitution today, and how have these developed historically? This tour sheds light on the development of the framework conditions for restitution and shows the associated challenges, potentials and unanswered questions. Selected cases from the Ethnologisches Museum are used to illustrate the diversity of restitution processes.
Participants
Julia von Sigsfeld has been Restitution Coordinator at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin/Museum für Asiatische Kunst as part of the “The Collaborative Museum” project since September 2023. She was previously a research assistant to the Director of the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony. This was preceded by a doctorate at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the FU Berlin as a fellow of the research training group “Minor Cosmopolitanisms”, which she completed in 2020.