Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig: Current projects

Current projects

Decolonisation projects comprise a vast network of museum activities. Restitution and repatriation projects can last many years and reach over several countries. Projects span from provenance research on SES (State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony) collections to data collection and presentation for internal and external databanks. The results are presented in exhibitions and discussed in formats such as the GRASSI Talks.

From left to right: Research Assistant Miriam Hamburger, Dr. Birgit Scheps-Bretschneider, and Ngarrindjeri Ambassador Major Sumner at a repatriation ceremony in November 2019.

Overview of current projects

The Ritxoko dolls of the Iny Karajá

„Presença Karajá“

Horst Martin in South America

Immaterial Restitution of Historical Photographs

Labrador Avertok Archaeology

Cooperation with experts and activists from Tanzania

Ancestral Remains and Objects from the Kilimanjaro Region

Delegationsbesuch aus Tansania, November 2023

Overview of past projects

Exhibit

The first exhibition on repatriation was displayed within the "Workshop PROLOG" (September 2020).

Wanggajarli Burugun (We Are Coming Home)

Repatriation to the Gunaikurnai, Menang and Ngarrindjeri

Sensitive Heritage Conference, 12.-13.12.2018

Repatriation to Hawai'i (2017)

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