Weltkulturenmuseum - Publications

healing. Life in Balance

Alice Pawlik and Dr. Mona Suhrbier (eds.): 256 pages, Publisher: Kerber

Invisible Inventories. Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums

Marian Nur Goni, Sam Hopkins (ed.): 86 pages, in German and English available at the Museum.
ISBN 978-3-947902-21-7 7,00

GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour coding worlds

Matthias Claudius Hofmann (ed.): 256 pages, edition in German and Englisch available. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0750-8 (D), 978-3-7356-0751-5 (ENG) 29,90

DAS MUSEUM VERLERNEN? Kolonialität und Vermittlung in ethnologischen Museen (Unlearning the Museum? Coloniality and Education in Ethnological Museums)

Volume 1: Nora Landkammer: Eine Analyse gegenwärtiger Diskurse in einem konfliktreichen Praxisfeld (An Analysis of Contemporary Discourses in a Conflict-Ridden Practice)
Volume 2: Praxen und Reflexionen kritischer Bildung und Wissensproduktion (Practices of and Reflections on Critical Education and the Production of Knowledge) Edited by Stephanie Endter, Nora Landkammer, Karin Schneider
ISBN Band 1: 978-3-937624-71-6
ISBN Band 2: 978-3-937624-72-3

Vienna: Zaglossus, 2021
Order via: 24,95

BOUGHT. COLLECTED. LOOTED?

Historisches Museum Frankfurt (ed.): 90 pages, softcover, available in Germand and English at the museum. Editor: Heinrich Editionen, ISBN 978-3-96320-024-3 (G), 978-3-96320-028-1 (Eng) 9,95

GREY IS THE NEW PINK - Moments of Ageing

Alice Pawlik (ed.): ca. 240 pages, paper back, edition in German and Englisch available at the museum from October 2018. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0491-0 (D), 978-3-7356-0492-7 (Eng) 29,90

ENTRE TERRA E MAR. Between Land and Sea. Transatlantic Art

Mona Suhrbier (ed.): 220 pages, bound, edition in German and Englisch available at the museum from November 2017.
Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0393-7 (D), 978-3-7356-0394-4 (ENG) 28,00

THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking

Vanessa von Gliszczynski, Mona Suhrbier and Eva Ch. Raabe (ed.): 255 pages, numerous coloured illustrations, softcover with flaps, bound, Available in bookstores and at the Weltkulturen Museum, Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0268-8 29,95

A LABOUR OF LOVE.

Yvette Mutumba and Gabi Ngcobo. (Hg.): 336 pages, softcover with flaps, bound, numerous illustrations, facsimile and photographs, bi-lingual in one volume: German and English. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN 978-3-7356-0140-7 42,00

“Something about Africa” – Challenges Facing the Education at the Weltkulturen Museum

Stephanie Endter und Carolin Rothmund (ed.): 222 pages, numerous colour illustrations, facsimile and Photographs, softcover, Publisher: Kerber, ISBN 978-3-7356-0137-7 In German. 27,00

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BOUGHT. COLLECTED. LOOTED?

Historisches Museum Frankfurt (ed.): 90 pages, softcover, available in Germand and English at the museum. Editor: Heinrich Editionen, ISBN 978-3-96320-024-3 (G), 978-3-96320-028-1 (Eng)
€9,95

Together with the Historisches Museum, the Museum Angewandte Kunst an the Jüdisches Museum

How did ancestor figures from Nias off the western coast of Sumatra enter the European art market in the early twentieth century? Why could the museum buy objects rather ‘cheaply’ in Paris and Amsterdam in the early 1940s? Is a weapon belt from South Africa war booty?

These are just some of the questions arising from a critical review of the Weltkulturen Museum’s collection. To specifically address these issues, the exhibition “COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED? Case studies fro ma Colonial and National Socialist Context” from August 2018 to January 2019 presented a number of case studies to highlight collecting practices in the colonial context and under the Nazi regime.

The cause for the exhibition was the presentation of the exhibition „Legalisierter Raub. Der Fiskus und die Ausplünderung der Juden in Hessen 1933-1945“ of the Fritz Bauer Institute at the Historisches Museum Frankfurt. The Jüdisches Museum, the Museum Angewandte Kunst and the Weltkulturen Museum joined the project and five exhibitions and a joint programme emerged.