Searching Histories’ Futures

LAB 6 reworks Hermann Bertram's colonial collection. It provides insights into a lively discussion about politics of cultural memory in Germany and Cameroon.

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Until 30 October

In times of political change, Helena Cing Deih Sian explores the contemporary significance of architectural heritage in Yangon, Myanmar. She examines the relationship between the spatial environment and political development.

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LindenLAB 4 highlights the deeply ambivalent facets of German-Afghan relations in the past and present.

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LindenLAB 5 deals with the relationships between people, objects and the institution museum. How are these relationships formed and how can they be changed? 

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We actively and self-critically face our past and take the responsibility for the museum's collection holdings very seriously. We are open to requests for restitution from relatives and representatives of the communities of origin.

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What lies behind an object, behind an exhibition hall, behind a museum, behind a voice? Argentine author and artist Giuliana Kiersz, 2020/21 fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, has created Un museo, a poetic and feminist audio-guide for thinking the Linden-Museum.

 

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Following the principle of the laboratory, we develop and test new forms of museum knowledge production, mediation, and presentation in eight LindenLABs. Follow our blog.

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Together with representatives of indigenous cultural initiatives from Myanmar’s Karenni region, LindenLAB 1 experimented with new forms of sharing knowledge and resources and of working together.
 

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We are very pleased: "Aztecs", our exhibition in cooperation with the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Netherlands), is on display at the National Museum of Korea.

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"Taking Care - Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care": The EU cooperation project of 13 European partners including our museum is scheduled for four years.

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The Association of the Many, DIE VIELEN, aims to strengthen opportunities for communication and action amongst artists, ensembles and agents within the performing arts and the fine arts. We are part of it.
 

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