"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...

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...

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.

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.

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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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

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/...

In total, there are over 160 events in 10 countries for the 7th #ProvenanceResearchDay ! Check them out at: www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/veranstaltun...

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

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/...

African Union declares slavery and colonization crimes against humanity apanews.net/au-declares-...

🕯 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...

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!

After the loan agreement the formal restitution is now completed www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitr...

„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

📖 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".

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...

📍 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:

📖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"

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...

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...

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

🎫 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!

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

💬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...

CfP: "Stadt und Kolonialismus", Konferenz am MARCHIVUM Mannheim, 21.-23.11 2025, Deadline 31.1.2025 europehist.hypotheses.org/2595 #history #skystorians #Kolonialismus

📖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....

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:

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

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.

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)!

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

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...

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

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...

📖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...

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:

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...

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:

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...

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-...

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:

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/...

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...

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/...