The guided tour of the permanent exhibition is devoted to a long-overlooked collecting practice: the collecting of objects by Catholic and Protestant mission communities – above all in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
What do these objects tell us about the colonial power relations in which they were collected? What role did missionaries play in the recording, classification and transmission of material culture? And what does this mean for the handling of these collections? The tour aims to contribute to a critical engagement with mission collections and also to draw attention to gaps in the existing examination of this history.
Intervention "Missionssammlungen ausgepackt", Foto: Taimas Ahangari