for this project I’m only looking at acquisitions made between 1933 and 1945. That amounts to about 1,200 works. In the first phase of the project, that number was reduced still further. First, I checked
complicated provenance. The Museum für Asiatische Kunst has been closed to the public since January 1, 2017, while we get everything ready for the move to the Humboldt Forum. I have long been planning to [...] than 8,000 sheets has never been digitally recorded in its entirety, only in…
entirety for the first time The oldest fragment, a register over four meters long (Codex Humboldt Fragment 1), is particularly elaborate. It was probably created 500 years ago in the former kingdom of Tlapan- [...] masters. Another fine example of the use of image and language is the…
on Mondays Musikinstrumenten-Museum des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung Tiergartenstrasse 1 (main entrance in Ben-Gurion-Strasse), 10785 Berlin Tel. +49 (30) 25481-178, kasse@mimpk.de Inclusion
descriptions in the catalogues raisonné and auction catalogues of 1934, it must have contained over 1,000 individual works of art. For this reason, MARI’s most important tasks are to reconstruct the inventory
instructions described in detail the order in which the inventory of the Louvre was to be distributed: “1. The art objects whose future use the Führer has reserved the right to decide, 2. The art objects that [...] or Leningrad for storage. As a gesture to its socialist “brothers,” the…
before and during German colonial rule over Namibia (1884–1919) and are part of a collection of roughly 1,400 objects. Research into their provenance has been underway since the beginning of 2018, with Namibian [...] cultural heritage from Namibia. Work then continued in the storage…
responsibility to understand the colonial contexts in which the Ethnologisches Museum acquired the nearly 1,400 objects from Namibia that are now in its collection. It was especially important to us to analyze
profane outside world by a massive stone balustrade. The stupa complex at Sanchi was expanded in the 1st century AD, the main change being the addition of four elaborately carved, ornamental gateways at