The institution of the ethnological museum is being heavily scrutinized in current discourse in Germany. The audio tour Discussion Atmospheres features different kinds of conversations about colonialism, ethnological museums, and racism in the…
The Child Beside You deals with the handling and representation of so-called museum artefacts by queering the established form of presentation. Instead of asking the audience to draw their attention to a collection of artefacts, the focus is directed…
Possible relations within the museum context are sheer infinite. Analyzing how vitrines, light, space, sound, materials, barriers, signs and all the other inanimate and animate elements interact, revealed an unwritten rule book on how to act,…
Joint project of the Coordination Center for Scientific University Collections in cooperation with the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, the GNM Nürnberg and the IGSD e.V.
The approximately 1,400 scientific collections held by universities and colleges in…
Object of the Month 12/2023Thanks to a significant donation of historical photographs from Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1912), a precious lacquer album has come into the possession of Humboldt-Universität zu…
In 2023, three students successfully completed their master’s or bachelor’s degree with a thesis on a Lautarchiv-related topic.
At Aarhus University, Nikoline Jørgensen has completed a master’s thesis in the Department of Comparative Literature…
Sarah Eaton from the Department of Asian and African Studies and Magdalena Waligórska from the Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität will receive funding totalling around four million euros from the European Research Council.
Prof Dr Sarah Eaton from the Department of Asian and African Studies and Dr Magdalena Waligórska from the Department of European Ethnology at HU will receive funding of around four million euros.
