Berlin's Australian Archive Addressing the Colonial Legacies of Natural History
In October 2025, the Berlin’s Australian Archive Team held a workshop titled “Translocated Nature from Australia as Indigenous Cultural Belongings” at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. We invited museum professionals and academics working in...
We look back on a successful workshop on Country in Euston/ Robinvale VIC on the banks of the Miloo [Murray] River, organised by our project partners at Museums Victoria (Caine Muir, Rebecca Carland, Jessica...
The Berlin’s Australian Archive team is pleased to announce an upcoming two-day workshop: “Translocated Nature from Australia as Indigenous Cultural Belongings,” to be held at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) on 8–9 October...
During our stay in Australia, part of our group had the chance to visit our partners at the Australian Museum (AM) in Sydney. Laura McBride, Mariko Smith and their team, the First Nations Division...
Over the last years, our project has worked closely with MfN’s “Transkriptionswerkstatt” (transcription workshop), a group of volunteers transcribing historic handwritten documents from the archive at the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) (see our in-depth...
We are very excited to announce this year’s workshop on Tati Tati Country in Victoria, Australia from March 21-23. Our German team, along with two representatives from the MfN, Dr. Sylke Frahnert (Curator of...
During our May 2024 workshop, the MfN film crew joined us for two days of research and events at MfN Berlin. It was a chance for Uncle Brendan Kennedy and Auntie Glenda Nicholls in...
In the course of the Berlin based workshop which took place for two weeks at the end of August and beginning of September 2023, members of both the Melbourne and Berlin team went to...
Over the last two weeks we had the opportunity to welcome Tati Tati & Wadi Wadi Traditional Owner Uncle Brendan Kennedy, Waddi Waddi, Ngarrindjeri & Yorta Yorta master weaver Auntie Glenda Nicholls, Back to...
Dear friends and colleagues, the provenance research project “Berlin’s Australian Archive”, funded by the German Lost Art Foundation and conducted in collaboration with Humanities of Nature, examines collections and archives in the Berlin Museum...
After I picked up my guest pass at the museum’s employee reception gate, I followed Christiane Funk, the mammal collection manager into the depths of Berlin’s fortress of natural history. I remember passing through...