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The Fateful Seventh Year: The Language of “Auth...
The Hamburg “Völkerkunde Museum” around 1920. In the past ten years, visitor numbers have dropped sharply. Could this also be due to the renaming to “MARKK,” a name that few...
The Fateful Seventh Year: The Language of “Auth...
The Hamburg “Völkerkunde Museum” around 1920. In the past ten years, visitor numbers have dropped sharply. Could this also be due to the renaming to “MARKK,” a name that few...
The Benin Bronzes: Provenance, Aesthetics, and ...
The Benin Bronzes have become a focal point in contemporary provenance research, illustrating how interpretive frameworks, value judgments, and moral assumptions have shifted in the handling of African art. Earlier,...
The Benin Bronzes: Provenance, Aesthetics, and ...
The Benin Bronzes have become a focal point in contemporary provenance research, illustrating how interpretive frameworks, value judgments, and moral assumptions have shifted in the handling of African art. Earlier,...
A film about the Benin Initiative Switzerland -...
In the film Museum Rietberg | On the Trail – The Benin Initiative Switzerland, a striking problem becomes apparent: the provided transcript does not match the spoken text in several...
A film about the Benin Initiative Switzerland -...
In the film Museum Rietberg | On the Trail – The Benin Initiative Switzerland, a striking problem becomes apparent: the provided transcript does not match the spoken text in several...
Provenance Research in the Mode of Digital Benin
The self-conception of provenance research as practised by Digital Benin is shaped by a deliberately circumscribed institutional framework. The project focuses almost exclusively on objects held in public museum collections, while private...
Provenance Research in the Mode of Digital Benin
The self-conception of provenance research as practised by Digital Benin is shaped by a deliberately circumscribed institutional framework. The project focuses almost exclusively on objects held in public museum collections, while private...
The “frozen Museum" & its "Postcolonial myths"
Before my mother first took me - at the age of ten - to the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology, I had already encountered another museum whose significance has largely faded...
The “frozen Museum" & its "Postcolonial myths"
Before my mother first took me - at the age of ten - to the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology, I had already encountered another museum whose significance has largely faded...
History, Restitution, and the Politics of Moral...
Egon Friedell once formulated a striking thought concerning the inherent incompleteness of historical scholarship. When asked why historical research can never yield stable or definitive results, he did not point...
History, Restitution, and the Politics of Moral...
Egon Friedell once formulated a striking thought concerning the inherent incompleteness of historical scholarship. When asked why historical research can never yield stable or definitive results, he did not point...