A visit to the Australian Museum, Sydney
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...
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...
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...
Our project is looking back on a busy year 2023 – so busy we even fell behind in posting about our work on this blog! We will therefore resume our blog by looking back...
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....