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Official bluesky account of the postcolonial provenance research team at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin @kulturspk www.smb.museum/forschung/provenienz…

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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"To what extent can the documentation, archiving, and sharing of marginalized (historical) knowledge open up spaces for new ways of thinking?" Congrats to our team member Ohini Toffa on their brilliant new book with @bpb.de www.bpb.de/shop/buecher...
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Transformative Archive
Der Band knüpft an das Ende 2022 von der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb in Kooperation mit dem Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig durchgeführte Symposium „Transformative Archive“ an.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Discover with us the multiple paths of a #provenance research process! July 15th, 6-7.15 pm: Webinar #2 in our series #UnpackingProvenance. This time, we discuss this Kakiemon model of an elephant from Japan @ Smithsonian‘s National Museum of Asian Art! Register today: asia.si.edu/whats-on/eve...
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Thanks for an inspiring exchange with the colleagues from the three new launched projects funded by the #GermanFrenchProvenanceResearchFund (cmb.hu-berlin.de/fileadmin/us...) yesterday @ #HumboldtForum at the occasion of the #ProvenanceResearchDay! The discussions continue today @ #CentreMarcBloch.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In honor of #ProvenanceResearchDay there was a guided tour through the exhibition “Kosmos Blauer Reiter” with Andreas Schalhorn from the Museum of Prints and Drawings and Sven Haase from the Central Archive today.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Our colleagues from the Central Archive and the Alte Nationalgalerie are touring the traces of provenance and sharing provenance stories in honor of #ProvenanceResearchDay @akpf.bsky.social
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Reminder that the State Museums and Humboldt Forum are hosting many events this afternoon! Check them out here: www.smb.museum/nachrichten/... And if you’re not in Berlin, there’s a live-streamed event as well, starting at 4:30 pm (see below)! #ProvenanceResearchDay @akpf.bsky.social
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
If you’re not in Berlin today but don’t want to miss out on #ProvenanceResearchDay be sure to check out the event "Hidden Paths and Emerging Networks" hosted in the Humboldt Forum which will be live streamed, starting at 4:30 pm! You can find more info here: www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/...
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Hidden Paths and Emerging Networks | Discourse at Humboldt Forum
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In total, there are over 160 events in 10 countries for the 7th #ProvenanceResearchDay ! Check them out at: www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/veranstaltun...
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Veranstaltungen am Tag der Provenienzforschung – Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We are ready for the 7th #DayofProvenanceresearch! If you want to join us for one (or all) of our many activities, have a look here: www.smb.museum/en/whats-new... #provenance #provenienzforschung
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7. Tag der Provenienzforschung am 9. April 2025
Die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin geben Einblicke in die Arbeit der Provenienzforscher*innen aus unterschiedlichen Museen und Themenbereichen.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
On the 7th International Provenance Research Day on 9 April 2025 at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin we provide insights into the work of postcolonial provenance research in the Humboldt Forum. Check out our program here: www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/...
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International Day of Provenance Research | Talk at Humboldt Forum
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
African Union declares slavery and colonization crimes against humanity apanews.net/au-declares-...
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AU declares slavery and colonization crimes against humanity
In a landmark decision, the African Union (AU) has declared slavery, deportation, and colonization as crimes against humanity and genocide against African peoples.
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Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz @kulturspk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🕯 Das Gedenken an Hanau ist unerlässlich! 2024 ließen sich im Kulturforum 84 Exponate von über 400 Schüler*innen bestaunen, die beim Schulwettbewerb „Junge Kunst für Hanau“ mitgemacht haben. Für das SPKmagazin haben einige von ihnen ihre Arbeiten vorgestellt. www.spkmagazin.de/2024/junge-k...
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Stärker als der Hass – Stimmen der „Jungen Kunst für Hanau“
Derzeit lassen sich im Foyer des Kulturforums 84 Werke von über vierhundert Schüler*innen bestaunen, die beim Schulwettbewerb „Junge Kunst für Hanau“ mitgemacht haben. Kunstlehrkräfte und ihre Klassen...
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Jenny Tadge @jennytadge.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Hier in Oldenburg suchen wir Verstärkung im Bereich #Provenienzforschung und #Digitalisierung - und zwar im Bereich #Naturkunde! Im Angebot ist eine 50%-13TV-L-Stelle für 3 Jahre im Projekt #ProSaDi!
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) | Deutscher Museumsbund e.V.
Das Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg bietet zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt für 3 Jahre eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in im Projekt: Wissenschaftsraum Provenienz- und Sammlungsf...
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
After the loan agreement the formal restitution is now completed www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitr...
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Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz gibt rituelle Kunst an Kolumbien zurück
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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
„Kolonialgeschichte: Das Schicksal der zwölf Schädel“: Guter Text von Holger Stoecker @unigoettingen.bsky.social über Rückgabe der Ahnen durch Charité Berlin. Was tut @diplo.de? @laenderkultur.bsky.social @hdilger.bsky.social @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social via (€) @zeitonline.bsky.social
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📖 Book launch of "Collections as Relations"on 13 February. The book includes a chapter by our dear former colleague Julia Binter and the collaborative provenance project on sensitive collections from Namibia "Confronting Colonial Pasts".
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 25/01/2025
Highly recommended new series in @thecontinent.org on looted #CulturalHeritage & #colonialism: "The Museum of Stolen History", curated by @shola-lawal.bsky.social, art direction by @wynonamutisi.bsky.social - Part 1 on #NgwiNdem from #Cameroon, pp. 19-22: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
Opening page of the "Museum of Stolen History" series in The Continent, showing the drawing of a mostly empty museum showcase with just one object: the wooden sculpture of Ngwi Ndem on the upper left shelf.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📍 Fellowship Opportunity: The NIAS Institute is offering two fellowships (AY 2025-2026) for research in the depots, archives and collections of museums belonging to the Colonial Collections Consortium. Researchers from the Global South are invited to apply until March 17:
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NIAS – NIOD – KITLV Fellowship: Moving objects, Mobilising Culture in the Context of (De)colonisation | NIAS
This fellowship is intended for researchers from formerly colonised countries – including heritage practitioners, historians, archaeologists, social scientists, artists, journalists, and/or cultural…
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📖Looks like a great read! We've got our eye on Corinne Geering's chapter on "Museums, colonial ethnography and the European countryside" 👉New Open Access Publication "Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950"
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Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz @kulturspk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Es beginnt mit einer chinesischen Porzellantasse und ihrem Weg nach Berlin: Morgen startet die neue Webinar-Reihe "Unpacking Provenance: Retracing the Histories of Asian Art" vom Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art und Staatliche Museen zu Berlin #Provenienzforschung asia.si.edu/whats-on/eve...
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Unpacking Provenance | A Chinese Porcelain Cup - National Museum of Asian Art
The new online series Unpacking Provenance: Retracing the Histories of Asian Art brings together cro
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Registration is still open for Wednesday's online talk "Unpacking Provenance". Panelists will formulate research questions, brainstorm approaches, and share resources for tracing the history of Asian art. via: www.smb.museum/en/events/de...
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Ramona Seitz @seitzramona.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Today is January 16, 2025. Few weeks ago, after the opening of “Histories of Tanzania” at Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Chief Adam Abdul Mkwawa II. told me: “It also helped a little to have people to share and listen to our cries and stories.” (1/2) Photo Credit: Imani Nsamila
A man in a white traditional garment, sitting. A woman and a man in conversation, the man wearing a traditional white garment.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
🎫 EVENT TIP: A conference on restitution, rematriation and reparation is taking place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt on 24 and 25 of January. The two-day congress includes lectures, performances and sound offerings. See you there!
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Rising from the Ashes | HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Eine Versammlung zu Rematriierungen, Reparationen und Restitutionen
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mappingmuc.bsky.social @mappingmuc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Eine der Porträtierten ist Alma Simba, deren sehr bewegendes Gedicht "Cold Hubris" hier (und in der aktuellen und sehr sehenswerten Ausstellung "Der Kolonialismus in den Dingen" im Museum 5 Kontinente) zu lesen ist: www.sapiens.org/culture/cold... Danke für den Hinweis an @rhoelzl.bsky.social
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Cold Hubris and Fundo
A poet-historian reflects on the legacy of colonial-era collecting practices in Tanzania that displaced Black Indigenous ancestors.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
💬Today the department of Modern Art History at the TU Berlin is hosting its KuK-Tuesdays Dislocation series on the "Contact Zone". Speakers will discuss the potential and ambiguities of this prominent concept within and beyond the ethnographic museum. More via www.tu.berlin/en/kuk/veran...
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Dislocation and Contact Zones - TU Berlin
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Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
CfP: "Stadt und Kolonialismus", Konferenz am MARCHIVUM Mannheim, 21.-23.11 2025, Deadline 31.1.2025 europehist.hypotheses.org/2595 #history #skystorians #Kolonialismus
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Stadt und Kolonialismus
Call for Papers Deadline 31. Jan. 2025 Südwestdeutscher Arbeitskreis für Stadtgeschichtsforschung in Verbindung mit dem Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, der Universität des Saarlande...
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
📖That comics can be a great medium for (re)telling the history of colonialism shows this graphic novel on three generations of anti-colonial resistance in Cameroon. It is available from the Initiative Perspectivwechsel at www.initiative-perspektivwechsel.org/projekte/wid....
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Comic "Widerstand" - Initiative Perspektivwechsel e.V.
Mit Comics erzählen wir vom antikolonialen Widerstand in Kamerun. Die Geschichten zeigen den Umgang und die Nachwirkungen des europäischen Kolonialismus.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The International Association for Provenance Research @akpf.bsky.social will be holding its annual conference at the University of Bonn in September. This year's focus is on transdisciplinary collaboration and its potential for provenance research. The call for papers is open until Feb. 28th:
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A Latin American Restitution Monitor? A great read on the "whys" and "hows" of documenting restitution efforts in Latin America by our colleague Julia von Sigsfeld. Referencing also the #GermanRestitutionMonitor by @colonial-memories.bsky.social #DekolonialErinnern Via: mecila.net/en/38
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#38 - Mecila
Restitution of sacred Kogui masks, June 2023. Photo: Colombian Presidency on X (@infopresidencia) A Latin American Restitution Monitor: Tracking and Documenting Restitution Efforts for Cultural Belong...
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New year, new webinar series! Join us for the first session: 💬Unpacking Provenance: Retracing the Histories of Asian Art 🕛Wednesday, 22 January, 12-1pm EDT / 6-7pm CET. The webinar on histories of Asian Art brings together specialists to discuss provenance research processes and share resources.
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mappingmuc.bsky.social @mappingmuc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
We’ve created a starter pack of academics & activists whose work focuses on German Colonialism and its Aftermath (among other things). It’s just a start. Let us know if you’d also like to be added (or removed)!
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Hansjörg Dilger @hdilger.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in mit Interesse an der aktivistischen Auseinandersetzung mit Kolonialität von Kulturgütern bzw. Kulturarbeit in migrantischen und diasporischen Kontexten gesucht! Bewerbungen bis zum 13. Januar 2025: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/n... @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland - ISD Berlin @isdberlin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Kein Raum für Erinnerungskultur Fünf Jahre erinnerte die „Dekoloniale“ an den deutschen Kolonialismus aus Betroffenen-Perspektive. Nun müssen die Initiativen ihre Räume aufgeben. taz.de/Modellprojek...
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Modellprojekt Dekoloniale wird beendet: Kein Raum für Erinnerungskultur
Fünf Jahre erinnerte die „Dekoloniale“ an den deutschen Kolonialismus aus Betroffenen-Perspektive. Nun müssen die Initiativen ihre Räume aufgeben.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A handover ceremony with representatives from the Ugar Island in Torres Straits was held at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin on December 5 to honor the return of five First Nations ancestors to Australia. 'These ancestors were removed without consent and now they are coming home.' Sereako Stephen
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Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland - ISD Bund e.V. @isdbund.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Verabredung zum Überfall Vor 140 Jahren tagte die Berliner Kongo-Konferenz. Reichskanzler Bismarck nutze sie für die Gründung deutscher Kolonien www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/radi...
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Podcast: Raubkunst als Planspiel - Ein Projekt kehrt den postkolonialen Blick um
Was ist so wichtig an ein paar uralten Objekten, die in deutschen Museen lagern? Für viele Weiße ist die Restitution von kolonialer Raubkunst kein besonders relevantes Thema. Das wollen Schwarze Aktiv...
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
📖To mark the 150th anniversary of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, the Baessler Archive has published a special retrospective issue. ✏️ We contributed with several articles on postcolonial provenance research. Get a copy via: journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ba...
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
How does an exhibition come about❓ Last week "Histories of Tanzania" opened its doors. Jointly curated by the National Museum of Tanzania, the Zentralarchiv and Ethnologisches Museum Berlin and the Humboldt Forum. 🧵 A thread of the provenance-driven projects that led up to this exhibition:
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Decolonize Berlin @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Jetzt schnell anmelden! Unser digitaler Jahresrückblick "Dekolonisierung trotz allem!" Welche Prozesse haben uns dieses Jahr bewegt & woran wollen wir im Jahr 2025 arbeiten? Darüber wollen wir heute Abend mit euch diskutieren! Hier geht es zur Anmeldung: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our colleagues at the Zentralarchiv @kulturspk.bsky.social are part of the project "Kunst, Raub und Rückgabe". It centers the life stories of persecuted Jewish citizens whose cultural property was looted by Nazi Germany. The project is hosting an open event tomorrow at the James Simon Galerie:
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Thiago P Barbosa @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
How can we remember and confront the legacies of scientific racism and eugenics? I wrote a review about the new exhibition “Science and Injustice” of the Memorial Site Ihnestraße at the FU Berlin and its community-based participatory process: anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com/2024/11/28/a...
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A Collective Effort to Remember Scientific Racism: The Opening of the Memorial Ihnestraße in Berlin
Flowers were placed next to a stele in the opening of the Ihnestraße Memorial Site’s exhibition “History of Science and Injustice”, October 2024 (Photo by the author)by Thiago P. Barbosa The beauti…
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The exhibition 'Histories of Tanzania' enters its first week. The joint project departs from thousands of cultural belongings from Tanzania in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It lays the groundwork for their processes of restitution. Have a look via this ZDF report: www.zdf.de/nachrichten-...
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Ausstellung über die Geschichte von Tansania
In Berlin startet eine Ausstellung über die Folgen der deutschen Kolonialherrschaft in Tansania und Kunst- und Kulturobjekte aus dieser Zeit.
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
How do objects from archaeological excavations end up in a museum in Berlin? In the last provenance exhibition talk of 2024 this question will be discussed by researchers from the project "Legal - Illegal? Where? Altes Museum. When? Th. 5.12. 3:30-4:30 pm How? In German. Free with registration:
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Antiken auf der Spur
Haben Sie sich schon einmal gefragt, wie all die archäologischen Objekte eigentlich ins Museum gekommen sind? Mit dieser Frage beschäftigt sich ...
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
early sneak peak into the exhibition "Histories of Tanzania" the co-curated exhibition asks: What (hi)stories do cultural belongings tell? central in the curation: the perspectives of society representatives and provenance stories opens tomorrow, 29.11 www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/...
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Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. @akpf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
TODAY: Online event on "Multinormativity and institutional plurality. Methodological reflections on understanding the legal situation in the German colony of Cameroon, 1884-1916" organized by the Zentrum für Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften der Natur: www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/wissensch...
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Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hello Everyone! We, the Postcolonial Provenance Team from the State Museums of Berlin, are excited to start connecting with you here on Bluesky! If you’re interested to learn more about our work, projects and provenance research you can find more info online: 🔗 www.smb.museum/en/research/...
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Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Provenance Research
Researching the origins of artefacts in our collections is one of the key responsibilities of all curatorial and research staff at the museums.
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