Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt Rothenbaumchaussee 64 20148 Hamburg
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Since 2017, the MARKK has been in an active process of examining its own colonial past and has initiated a comprehensive process of repositioning. Close cooperation and a trustful exchange with the collections’ societies of origin are of great importance. In addition to possible restitutions, the MARKK is open to...
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As part of a four-year phase of research, planning and experimentation, the MARKK is intensively working on its repositioning. The findings and considerations are incorporated into the concept of the new permanent exhibition. Within the framework of this forward-looking project, three curatorial research...
The museum remains in motion and MARKK in motion. In the Zwischenraum we rehearse for a new museum, create space for discourse and show where the MARKK is heading with the repositioning. We open the space for performative moments and unexpected appropriations.
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As part of 360° – Fund for New City Cultures of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Museum am Rothenbaum is reflecting on new formats and exchange, which allow cooperation at eye level between societies of origin, their diaspora and the German dominant society.
“In the German-speaking world, more than twenty public ethnological and world culture museums […] preserve a significant number of collections with cultural artifacts, photographs, film and sound documents as well as archives of manuscripts. We preserve these collections in a fiduciary capacity. Through the...
Interdisciplinary research of our collections from different perspectives is a central concern of ours. We support dialogue, the exchange of knowledge and cooperation with scholars, curators, various actors in urban society, and with the descendants of the societies from which the collections originate. Our...
Since 2017, the MARKK has been actively engaging with its own past and researching the provenance of its objects and collections. Current restitution projects are presented here.
The Museum am Rothenbaum is constantly engaged in restoration and conservation projects on a wide variety of objects and collections. Below we present some of the past, current and future projects.
Alarming environmental shifts and crises have raised public awareness of and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in cause and scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are unequally distributed, affecting most intensely some of the already most fragile, including indigenous and...
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