Accompanying booklet "power | relations", page 41, map
© Begleitheft „machtIbeziehungen“, Seite 41, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Stiftung Preußische Kulturbesitz, 2021
Artwork featuring historical maps and colorful, stylized figures in modern, graphic frames.
Past events
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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

Depot visit ‘Intertwined Memory(s) at the Humboldt Forum Traces of the Shoah and colonialism in the Berlin Palace and the Ethnological Collections'
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Ethnologisches Museum, Photo: Frank Sperling
Belongs to
International Day of Provenience Research
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst und Ethnologisches Museum, Fotos: Claudia Obrocki; Martin Franken; Philipp Jester / Jens Blank
Visit the collections on the 2nd and 3rd floor
In the Humboldt Forum's foyer there is a 17 meter high media tower, called "cosmograph". It gives visitors comprehensive information about their visit and can transform into an art and light installation.
© SHF / David von Becker
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