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Modern museums, in all their diversity, have always been controversial places: from their civic, national, and imperial beginnings to multimedia blockbuster exhibitions today. Museums have been celebrated and criticized, praised to the skies and slated, ever since they became accessible to a broader public. Today, it seems that museums - as institutions of cultural self-assurance - have even increased their influence on society, but they are also being called into question more than ever before. Whether technology, ethnology, or history - in museums, social knowledge is negotiated and produced, criticized and legitimized. How can the sources and practices of museum knowledge production be made useful for historical research? What potential do they hold for the deconstruction of hegemonic claims to interpretation and truth in and outside of museums?<\/p>\n

On the basis of several case studies, we ask about the potential of practices and sources of museum knowledge production. From disputed bronzes and their restitution in colonial trade relations, the role of digital and social media in restitution debates, to the collection and documentation of counter-gendered technical artifacts and the exhibitionability of electronic music, narratives can be critically questioned, challenged, and reconsidered. Can museums become institutions that critically reflect on societal power relations and fundamentally question their own practices of including and excluding things, people, and perspectives? Or are museums as hierarchical, colonial, and patriarchal institutions, despite all efforts at reflection, at the mercy of the reproduction of social hegemonies?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Zur\u00fcckgeben oder nicht und wie? Die postkoloniale Provenienzforschung in Deutschland wirft gerade in jenen F\u00e4llen spannende Fragen auf, wo formal nie eine deutsche Kolonie unterhalten wurde. Ein Beispiel hierf\u00fcr ist die R\u00fcckgabe der sogenannten Benin-Bronzen an das heutige Nigeria. Die Untersuchung solch sensibler Provenienzen gibt dabei Anlass, \u00fcber das Verh\u00e4ltnis zwischen Kolonisierten und Kolonisatoren nachzudenken: Inwieweit reproduzieren oder verst\u00e4rken wir historisch gewachsene Machtgef\u00e4lle, wenn wir die Herkunftsgesellschaften bei der Eigentums-r\u00fcck\u00fcbertragung translozierter Kulturg\u00fcter (nicht) einbeziehen und welche Rolle spielen die ethnografischen Museen unserer Zeit dabei?<\/p>\n"},{"speaker":[{"id":1340,"ID":1340,"object_type":"term","PostClass":"Timber\\Post","TermClass":"Term","_children":null,"name":"Sophie Gerber","taxonomy":"ht_section_speaker","term_id":1340,"slug":"sophie-gerber","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1340,"parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","firstname":"Sophie","lastname":"Gerber","location":"Wien","email":""},{"id":1336,"ID":1336,"object_type":"term","PostClass":"Timber\\Post","TermClass":"Term","_children":null,"name":"Sophie K\u00fchnlenz","taxonomy":"ht_section_speaker","term_id":1336,"slug":"sophie-kuehnlenz","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1336,"parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","firstname":"Sophie","lastname":"K\u00fchnlenz","location":"Erfurt","email":""}],"title":"Vom Sammeln, Suchen und Sichten. Perspektiven auf Technik und Geschlecht im Museum","abstract":"

Wie l\u00e4sst sich die bisher vernachl\u00e4ssigte Vielfalt und Vielschichtigkeit vergeschlechtlichter technischer Artefakte im Museum sammeln, dokumentieren und kategorisieren? Anhand verschiedener Objekte aus den Sammlungen des Technischen Museums Wien diskutieren wir eine genderinformierte Sammlungs- und Dokumentationspraxis: Wie kann vermeintlich sicheres Wissen \u00fcber Technik (und Geschlecht) hinterfragt werden? Wie kann neues Wissen produziert und festgehalten werden, ohne Stereotype zu reproduzieren? Ziel ist es, historisch gewachsene Sammel- und Kategorisierungspraktiken neu zu befragen und die Auseinandersetzung mit Objekten f\u00fcr die geschichtswissenschaftliche Forschung weiter fruchtbar zu machen.<\/p>\n"},{"speaker":[{"id":1341,"ID":1341,"object_type":"term","PostClass":"Timber\\Post","TermClass":"Term","_children":null,"name":"Richard Legay","taxonomy":"ht_section_speaker","term_id":1341,"slug":"richard-legay","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1341,"parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","firstname":"Richard ","lastname":"Legay","location":"Freiburg","email":""}],"title":"Comparing the restitution of cultural heritage in France and in Germany","abstract":"

After years of activism, notably online, the #BringBackNgonso campaign was finally successful and saw the Humboldt Forum agreeing in 2022 to the return of the statue of Ngonnso, the queen mother of the Nso people, to Cameroon. In November 2021, following the demands of the Benin Republic and the promises made in his 2017 speech in Ouagadougou, President Macron returned 26 royal treasures to President Talon. What are the origins and implications of such differences in actors, levels and institutions involved in restituting cultural heritage between France and Germany? What is the impact of the international mediatisation of the debates?<\/p>\n"},{"speaker":[{"id":1337,"ID":1337,"object_type":"term","PostClass":"Timber\\Post","TermClass":"Term","_children":null,"name":"Elias N\u00fcse","taxonomy":"ht_section_speaker","term_id":1337,"slug":"elias-nuese","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1337,"parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","firstname":"Elias","lastname":"N\u00fcse","location":"K\u00f6ln","email":""}],"title":"Das ravende Museum \u2013 Museale (Re)Pr\u00e4sentationen elektronischer Musik","abstract":"

Museen als traditionelle Institutionen des Zeigens materieller Objekte stehen vor gro\u00dfen Herausforderungen, wenn es darum geht, immaterielle Ph\u00e4nomene zu musealisieren. Anhand von \u201eTechnokultur\u201c als musikalische, also genuin immaterielle Kultur, diskutiert dieser Beitrag, welche Mittel und Wege – oder kurz: welche Quellen – das Museum als Institution nutzen kann, um vergangene Musik kulturhistorisch zu pr\u00e4sentieren. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf den narrativen, physischen und gestalterischen Zugriffen.<\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\nContested Bronzes, Gendered Technology, (Im)material Music. 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