“Ethnological museums have become home museums of white guilt”
In Leipzig, people are encouraged to buy "scruple," and at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, the history of objects is distorted. Mathias Brodkorb sharply criticizes ethnological museums in Germany. An interview.
Hans Meyer and Chief Mareale German Photo Library/Hans Meyer
Visiting an ethnological museum has become a mixed experience. One wonders whether one is actually allowed to see the spears, carvings, and feather crowns whose craftsmanship one marvels at. Shouldn't all these objects have long since left Germany and been returned to the country from which they were stolen? Information panels, for example, in the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, which houses the largest collection in Germany, commemorate colonial crimes.
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