Tagged: Museum für Naturkunde
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
Research assistant Philip Eybing reflects on his work with the Blandowski papers. William Blandowski was a Prussian naturalist, who arrived in Australia in 1849 and who was appointed government zoologist at Melbourne’s newly founded...
Last Tuesday and Wednesday (6-7 October 2020), we held the first of hopefully many workshops to come in order to discuss how to reconstruct and activate the Australian archive in the Museum für Naturkunde,...