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Backstories | Die Schimpansin Missie
Backstories | Die Schimpansin Missie © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

Backstories | Missie the chimpanzee

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The "Backstories" series tells remarkable object stories from the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. This episode is about the chimpanzee "Missie", who had an eventful history and can now be seen as a wooden sculpture in the stairwell of the Alte Nationalgalerie.

Video: Bboxx Filme

Museum and the City: „Backstories: Die Schimpansin Missie“ on the blog of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (German only)
Museum and the City: Posts about Backstories on the blog of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (German only)

Anton Puchegger’s “Portrait of Missie the Chimpanzee”, lost in the war, now returned to the Alte Nationalgalerie

Nationalgalerie Wiederauffindung eines Kriegsverlustes. Die Skulptur "Porträt der Schimpansin Missie" von Anton Puchegger ist in die Alte Nationalgalerie zurückgekehrt

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