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Museum collections are the result of relationships. Provenance research makes the origins and relational histories behind the objects visible, and scrutinises the unequal power relationships that existed when the objects were acquired.
Postcolonial Provenance Research at the Humboldt Forum | Portrait of an officer, China, Room 320 (German only)
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