Baessler-Archiv – Kulturen und Künste der Welt

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Zeitleiste

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Ausstellungen des Ethnologischen Museums seit 1973

Die Redaktion — 2024-11-26

1973–2023: Sammlungsbereiche/Fachreferate

Die Redaktion — 2025-04-04

Einleitung

Lars-Christian Koch — 2025-04-04

Grußwort

Manfred Rettig — 2025-04-04

Der Forschungscampus in Dahlem aus Sicht des Ethnologischen Museums

Alexis von Poser — 2025-03-10

Transkulturelle Zusammenarbeit – von kuratierter Partizipation zum »Kollaborativen Museum« und der »Global Cultural Assembly«

Andrea Scholz — 2024-11-26

Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures

Ndapewoshali Ndahafa Ilunga — 2025-04-04

»Getting Our Stories Back«

Ute Marxreiter — 2025-03-10

Zeitgenössische Kunst im Ethnologischen Museum und im Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Kerstin Pinther — 2025-04-04

Historische Sammlungen in ein Verhältnis zur Gegenwart setzen

Kerstin Pinther — 2025-04-04

Einleitung

Ute Schüren — 2024-11-26

In addition to its work with Berlin’s urban society and the so-called societies of origin, the cooperation of the Ethnological Museum within the framework of academic or scientific research projects plays an important role. Investigators from all over the world approach the museum for their own research. Also, the Ethnological Museum initiates its own cooperative projects. To this end, the team of the Ethnological Museum maintains an extensive international network of scientific contacts. Support for scientific research remains important. In addition to sufficient staffing, access to third-party funding and research grants is an indispensable prerequisite. The diversity of knowledge cultures, including academic knowledge, must be encouraged. Some of the cooperative projects are briefly presented.

Kooperationsprojekt Tangyang

Henriette Lavaulx-Vrécourt — 2025-01-07

50 Jahre internationale Forschung – immer noch offene Fragen:

Viola König — 2024-11-26

Musikethnologie im Museum

Albrecht Wiedmann — 2024-11-26

The Media Department of the Ethnologisches Museum comprises the fields of ethnomusicology, the Berlin Phonogram Archive and visual anthropology. From the beginning of the 1970s, the so-called »Department of Ethnomusicology« was characterized by diverse efforts to reach a broad public. In addition to record and book publications, it regularly organized concerts and workshops. Various special exhibitions substituted the permanent exhibition, which was not set up until 1996. Later on, further tasks were assigned to the department. Since the turn of the millennium, the digitization of the holdings has come to the fore. Until the 1980s, the film archive was mainly based on film series produced by the Göttingen Institute for Scientific Film (IWF, Institut für Wissenschaftlichen Film) and shown primarily for research purposes. Since then, the approach, content, scope and visibility of the archive in the public space have changed.

Das Filmarchiv und seine Festivals

Regina Knapp — 2024-12-09

Digitale Transformation in der Abteilung Medien

Maurice Mengel — 2024-11-26

Gemeinsam Ausstellen – Aspekte des Islam in Berliner muslimischen Communities

Melanie Krebs — 2025-04-04

Leerstellen. Ausstellen – Objekte aus Tansania und das koloniale Archiv

Ulrike Kirsch — 2024-11-26

Collaborative exhibitions in ethnological museums, as happening currently in the Humboldt Forum, will be more and more common. Collaborative means working together with so called source communities, the descendants of the original owners of the displayed objects. An artist from Nagaland, India co curated the Naga exhibition. A group of Native Americans were part oft the curatorial team of the Omaha (Umonhon ) exhibition. Indigenous people express their experience with the violence imposed on them by the white intruders. In the Islam exhibition Berlin Islamic community members of different denominations got the occasion of curating their specific showcase in the exhibition. The Tansania exhibition is focussing on decolonialization of the objects. The perspective of the Tanzanian curators concentrates on the colonial context, the rassist attitude of the German colonial power and the history of violence which was imposed on the local population.

Kollaborative Vermittlungsansätze im Ethnologischen Museum und im Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Patrick Helber — 2025-01-07

Geteilte Geschichten?!

Kristin Weber-Sinn — 2024-12-09

Spuren des »Boxerkriegs« in Museumssammlungen

Kerstin Pannhorst — 2024-11-26

Provenance research, especially when focussing on collections from colonial contexts, requires new collaborative ways of engaging with the communities of implication. In this section, examples of this new way of working are given with presenting two current projects: one is on collections from today’s Tansania that came to Berlin in the context of anti-colonial wars in the late 19th century and another one looks on pieces that were brought to Germany from China, where a war against the so-called Boxer-groups was fought between 1899 and 1901. Yet another example sheds light on the highly sensitive field of human remains in ethnological and anthropological collections. These projects cover new ground in many ways and thus, one goal is also to produce guidelines to assist other museums in the future.

Aufarbeitung der Aneignungs- und Erwerbungskontexte der menschlichen Überreste in den Sammlungen

Ilja Labischinski — 2024-11-26

Restitutionen aus den Sammlungen des Ethnologischen Museums

Carola Thielecke — 2024-11-26

Restitution is an important aspect of current collaborative projects between museums and communities of origin. The articles in this chapter examine the topic from the perspective of a lawyer (Thielecke) and an ethnologist and museum director (Koch). Thielecke explains the background of various restitutions from the Ethnological Museum Berlin in the last five years and concludes that at least for now, decision about restitutions are always individual and museums are still in a process of learning and developing strategies in mutual exchange with the communities of origin. Using the history of the Benin Bronzes as an example, from the collection’s origins in a colonial context to the current restitution from the Ethnological Museum to Nigeria, Koch examines the questions and opportunities emerging within restitutions processes for the museum itself as well as for the communities.

Kooperation und Restitution in musealen Handlungsfeldern

Lars-Christian Koch — 2024-11-26

Auf dem Weg ins Humboldt Forum – ein Gespräch

Viola König — 2025-03-10