The Optical Museum Jena (Deutsches Optisches Museum) has published the second volume in its series Technisches Kulturgut [Technical Cultural Property] entitled Provenienzforschung zu Handel und Entzug [Provenance Research on Trade and Confiscation]. The result of collaboration between various museums, the second volume is just over 320 pages in length and addresses various contexts of provenance research, ranging from European colonialism to new approaches to research into property looted during the Russian-Ukrainian War.
Research into the provenance of technical cultural artefacts is a new and distinct area of provenance research dedicated to the origins of objects which are of significance in connection with the history of technology, including the relevant dealer/collector networks and the circulation of the items concerned. In Volume 2, 16 researchers from Germany and Austria present their current findings on the trading and confiscation of technical cultural property.
To the sample extract from the conference proceedings Technisches Kulturgut entitled Provenienzforschung zu Handel und Entzug: https://verlag.sandstein.de/reader/98-797_TechnKulturgut2/
Further details: https://verlag.sandstein.de/detailview?no=98-797
Copies are available for EUR 39.99 at info@deutsches-optisches-museum.de
Information on the first volume
To the D.O.M project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation: INSIGHT D.O.M. – Provenienzrecherchen zu Käufen, Schenkungen und Übernahmen am Deutschen Optischen Museum zwischen 1933 und 1945 [Provenance research into purchases, donations and acquisitions at the Optical Museum Jena from 1933 to 1945]
Optical Museum Jena is organising the symposium Provenienzforschung Technisches Kulturgut “Faire und gerechte Lösungen”? [Provenance Research into Technical Cultural Property – ‘Just and Fair Solutions?’] to be held on 10 and 11 October 2024, and invites exposés for presentations to be submitted by e-mail no later than 14 June 2024.
Dr Sören Groß, e-Mail: soeren.gross@deutsches-optisches-museum.de
Dr des. Ron Hellfritzsch, e-Mail: ron.hellfritzsch@deutsches-optisches-museum.de