International Conference
From history to present: Dealing with museum collections from colonial contexts in Hesse and beyond
Concept
The international conference is an outcome of the German Lost Art Foundation
funded project ‘Provenance Research on the East Africa Collection of the Museum Witzenhausen’. Co-financed by the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts (HMWK), it is hosted by the Museum Wiesbaden (MuWi) in cooperation with the project implementing partners German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) and fahari yetu Tanzania. The conference aims to advance the academic
and public dialogue on how to deal with colonial history and heritage in Hesse, Germany, Tanzania and beyond, and to stimulate collaborative research and exhibition cooperation between German, Tanzanian and other countries’ universities, museums, civil society organisations and communities of origin.
The academic programme starts with the presentation of general and specific results from the Witzenhausen project. The results open up broader thematic avenues for the following panels, exploring the subject and scope of colonial legacies beyond ethnographic collections,
conceptual tools and methods to guide provenance research and knowledge production, and approaches to de-colonial international cooperation and knowledge transfer through other
projects and cases.
Find the complete program here: Programme_from history to present Wiesbaden