MARKK Hamburg examines selected inventories for collection, acquisition and object history
In each case, the history of collection and acquisition practices, as well as the history of individual objects and specific provenance characteristics, are researched.
The project focuses on inventories that are already known or recognized as suspect. For example, among the transfers in the MARKK are silver objects from Jewish ownership that had to be forcibly surrendered in Hamburg in 1939. In 1961, these were transferred by the Hamburg Finance Authority to various Hamburg museums as residual inventory. The MARKK inventory includes 44 objects, which are assigned to the Europe and America departments.
Judaica objects from the collection are checked for their status of receipt, such as purchase, donation, loan, etc., as well as previous owners and bearers.
The results of the project will be published on the museum’s own website, as part of the successive online presentation of the collections, and in a presentation of the results.
The MARKK is one of the largest ethnographic museums in Europe with regional collection areas relating to Africa, the Americas, Europe/North Asia, East and South Asia, Oceania and West and Central Asia/North Africa.
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