Through our Future Program REINVENTING GRASSI. SKD, funded by the “Initiative for Ethnological Collections” of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, we will be redesigning our museum in the upcoming years extensively. Step by step, we want to transform ourselves into a Network Museum in which different voices have the opportunity to speak and different regions have the ability to connect with each other. Together, we will be casting critical perspectives on the ethnological collections, their acquisition, and exhibition history
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The project report on the provenances of the collections from Togo under German colonial rule (1884-1914), which are stored at the Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden and the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, has been published. We are delighted to be able to share the results of the project, which was funded by the German Lost Art Foundation, with the public. The short version of the report has been published in three languages and can be accessed here.
Statement of the 8th Benin Dialogue Group Meeting on 6—7 March 2023 at MARKK Hamburg
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