Larissa Förster and Margareta von Oswald participate with a talk titled ‘The ‘Restitution Report’ – What’s at stake?’ at the conference ‘Sensitive Heritage – Ethnographic Museums and Material/Immaterial Restitutions‘. It will take place at the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig from December 12th – 13th.
DEAD IMAGES project is exhibited from November 9th, 2018 - January 19th, 2019
The TRACES project ‘DEAD IMAGES’ is part of the exhibition ‘The Dead, as
far as [ ] can remember’. It runs from 9 November 2018 until 19 January 2019 at the Tieranatomisches Theater.
'Profusion in Museums - A Report on Contemporary Collecting and Disposal' now available
‘Profusion in Museums – A Report on Contemporary Collecting and Disposal’ by Harald Fredheim, Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan is now available! To read online or to get a printed copy, click here. Or, click here to download the PDF file directly. CARMAH wishes a good read!
Larissa Förster zu Provenienzforschung (in German)
The German federal parliament grants 660 million euro to Naturkundemuseum
Congratulations to our partner, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, on receiving 660 million Euro from the German federal parliament for the next 10 years! With this allowance, it will be possible to develop a forum for research and communication for the natural and life sciences and expand the displays for visitors. Find out more here (in German).
New CARMAH Newsletter out now
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Otherwise. Rethinking Museums and Heritage - CARMAH Paper #1
CARMAH proudly presents the first collection of essays with an introduction by Sharon Macdonald. Named after the symposium ‘OTHERWISE. Rethinking Museums and Heritage‘ held on July 27th – 28th, 2017. It is an open-access publication and can be downloaded here. Enjoy!
Suggested further readings: CARMAH's Reflections
Feel invited to have a look at our Reflections page where you’ll find out about the emerging subject of provenance in the Multaka-guided tours at the Pergamon Museum (Rikke Gram), a step in the process of Decolonising Berlin’s Streets (Duane Jethro), and how Callum Fischer experienced the Dead Images conference and exhibition.
