From history to present

The International Conference „From history to present: Dealing with museum collections from colonial contexts in Hesse and beyond“ will take place from Sep 23 — 24, 2024 at Museum Wiesbaden. Please register until September 7, 2024

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International Conference

„From history to present: Dealing with museum collections from colonial contexts in Hesse and beyond“

Sep 23 — 24, 2024

 

The conference is an outcome of the German Lost Art Foundation funded project ‘Provenance Research on the East Africa Collection of the Museum Witzenhausen’. Co-financed by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Arts, it is hosted by the Museum Wiesbaden (MuWi) in cooperation with the project implementing partners German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) and fahari yetu Tanzania. The conference aims to advance the academic and public dialogue on how to deal with colonial history and heritage in Hesse, Germany, Tanzania and beyond.

Date and time:

September 23—24, 2024
09.00—18.00 hrs

Venue:

Museum Wiesbaden
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
65185 Wiesbaden
Germany

Please register until September 7, 2024 (deadline) via: 

ethnologie( at )museum-wiesbaden.de

The final program, streaming link and more information coming soon here.

 

Contact

Sign up contact

ethnologie[ at ]museum-wiesbaden.de