Berlin's Australian Archive Addressing the Colonial Legacies of Natural History
During the second half of our workshop we transcribed parts of Richard Schomburgk’s handwritten travel report on his expedition to British Guiana and Brazil. The report was written for the Prussian government, which had...
After learning old German script (Kurrent) and Sandra Miehlbradt’s introduction to the overall structure and the duties of the Historical Division of the Natural History Museum, the next part of our transcription workshop concentrated...
We congratulate our Berlin project partners Dorothea Deterts and Anna Weinreich on their curatorial roles in realizing the exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters at the Humboldt Forum. The exhibition is based on a...
In the second session of our transcription course, we met Sandra Miehlbradt (Natural History Museum, Berlin), head archivist of the Historical Division (“Historische Arbeitsstelle” or short HAS) of the Natural History Museum, Berlin. She...
In April 2022 the Natural History Museum, Berlin, started its second beginners’ course in reading and transcribing old German script (Kurrent and Sütterlin). Our project is a key collaborator in this citizen science project....
Vorbehaltlich der Mittelvergabe durch das Deutsche Zentrum Kulturgutverluste sucht das von der Universität Potsdam und der Universität Trier gemeinschaftlich durchgeführte Projekt „Berlin’s Australian Archive: Addressing the Colonial Legacies of Natural History“ eine:n Forschungskoordinator:in. Die...
In February 2022, Decolonize Berlin e.V., the central coordination body for a city-wide concept addressing Berlin’s colonial past, published “We want them back: On the presence of human remains from colonial contexts in Berlin”...
The Long History of Claims for the Return of Cultural Heritage from Colonial Contexts: 17 to 19 November 2021 International conference of the German Lost Art Foundation in cooperation with the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz...
We congratulate our Sydney project partner and First Nations curator Laura McBride on the recent opening of “Unsettled”, one of the Australian Museum’s most significant exhibitions in its almost 200-year history. This powerful exhibition...
Research assistant Fiona Möhrle has been working on registering Blandowski’s drawings in the internal database of the Historische Arbeitsstelle at the MfN. Here, she reflects on the insights she gained while meticulously examining the...
Our Melbourne project partners Kimberley Moulton, Rebecca Carland and Tim Stranks have long been working with the collections of Prussian naturalists William Blandowski and Gerald Krefft. Here is an insight into the exciting potential...