Reflections on a visit to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford

15.07.2024
von Maren Wirth, Laibor Kalanga Moko
Aus der Forschung

Earlier this year, Laibor Kalanga Moko and Maren Wirth visited the famous Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Founded in 1884 the institution houses collections from various parts of the world, most of which were appropriated during British colonialism. We first initiated contact with Laura van Broekhoven, the Director of the Museum, in 2021. At the … weiterlesen

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Experiencing Colonial Photographs differently

02.11.2021
von Maren Wirth
Aus der Forschung SFB 1171

For my master thesis I am working on two albums of colonial photographs from the collection of Weltmuseum Wien. The photographs were taken by Max Schoeller, a German entrepreneur and hobby anthropologist. Between 1896 and 1897 he traveled East Africa and collected several thousands of ethnographic objects and took photographs of people, infrastructure, animals, and … weiterlesen