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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
The restitution, approved by SPK’s foundation council in December 2017, is one step towards a cooperation of the Ethnologisches Museum with native tribes of the Chugach region in southwestern Alaska. In 2015, a delegation from the Chugach Alaska Corporation visited the Ethnolo-gisches Museum for the first time, with the aim of initiating cooperation on future projects. The items which now will be restituted are grave goods brought to Berlin by Johan Adrian Jacobsen in the 1880s. Jacobsen had traveled and collected along the American northwest coast and Alaska on behalf of the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde (Royal Museum of Ethnology), which was the forerunner of the Ethnologisches Museum. In the present case, all the indications are that the objects were obtained through grave robbery and not by an approved archaeological excavation. In view of these facts, it was decided to return the objects, in line with SPK’s general approach to its non-European collections and the research of their provenances
We cordially invite you to the Handing Over Ceremony
on 16 May 2018, 11 a.m., Museen Dahlem, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin
Speakers:
• Hermann Parzinger, President, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
• John Johnson, Vice-President, Alaska Chugach Corporation
• Christina Haak, Deputy Director General, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Lars-Christian Koch, Director for the Collections of the Staatliche Mu-seen zu Berlin in the Humboldt Forum and Monika Zessnik, Curator oft he North America Collection, Ethnologisches Museum
More information in German: http://www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/newsroom/dossiers-und-nachrichten/dossie...
Information on participating / attending:
For registration, please send an E-mail by May 15 to: pressestelle@hv.spk-berlin.de.
Date:
05/16/2018 11:00 - 05/16/2018 13:00
Event venue:
Foyer of the Museen Dahlem,
Lansstraße 8
14195 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences
Types of events:
Press conferences
Entry:
05/14/2018
Sender/author:
Birgit Jöbstl
Department:
Medien und Kommunikation
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event60489
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