calendars and identity documents, which are now accessible to anyone interested via a new database. The 1,800 files are being made available gradually. The site will remain open until 30 June and can be added
there were paintings of German impressionists, drawings and Chinese porcelain. Nearby (Sigismundstrasse 1), Charlotte Fürstenberg-Cassirer collected "modern art," while Dr. Ernst Feist-Wollheim's preference [...] played a central role in this neighborhood. In the 1900s and 1910s, he…
coating applied to 15,000 square meters of the steel structure and 500 weld seams repaired, as well as 1,600 square meters of new glass fitted. 800 existing ceiling lights converted to LED technology, 196
juxtaposition of 21st-century Moroccan silk embroidery with Anni Albers’ Bauhaus textiles from 1927 and the 1,500-year-old Huari men’s shirt from Peru, a dialogue transcending time and space emerges concerning
long before colonisation? The history of Benin, located in present-day Nigeria, stretches back almost 1,000 years. The dynasty of the current king has held the throne for around 500 years, making it one of
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
sky and stars from the region. Testimony to this multicultural and multireligious region are the 1,000–1,500-year-old fragments of manuscripts and wooden tablets in over 20 scripts and languages, which [...] float beneath the hall’s ceiling. It was crafted from poplar wood and consists…
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