Provenance research deals intensively with the appropriation and acquisition contexts of museum collections.
Image gallery
Faksimiles aus der Namibiasammlung im Ethnologischen Museum.
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.
- free admission
- 2nd Floor, Meeting Point F
- Duration: 60 min
- max. 25 persons
- Language: German
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Accessibility
The Humboldt Forum with its offers can be reached barrier-free with a wheelchair. A tactile floor guidance system facilitates orientation for blind and visually impaired visitors. Educational formats are tailored to the different needs of visitors with disabilities. These include tactile tours, guided tours and workshops.
Barrier-free parking is available south of the Humboldt Forum on Schlossplatz. Barrier-free parking is available south of the Humboldt Forum on Schlossplatz. For more information, click here.
By underground and suburban railway: U Museumsinsel (U5): 1 min walk S/U Alexanderplatz: 15 min walk S Hackescher Markt: 10 min walk
By bus: Lustgarten: 100, 300, N5; 1 min walk Berlin Palace: 147; 1 min walk BVG Fahrinfo
Bus bays are available in Rathausstraße, 300 metres by walking: Stopping time from 9 - 22.30
