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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 | Rifle projectiles, Hassan bin Omari, Tanzania, Room 214 (German only)
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Shared Knowledge: Collaborative Provenance Research – Researchers from the Amazon basin at the Ethnologisches Museum
Is Provenance Research Part of the Humboldt Forum’s DNA? Discussion on 20 September 2017
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