PAESE

Provenance Research in Non-European Collections and Ethnography in Lower Saxony

The objectives of the PAESE project are

  • basic research on the ways in which ethnological or ethnographic collections in Lower Saxony were acquired, as well as research on related issues in the participating institutions,
  • networking and cooperation with representatives of the respective societies of origin,
  • the establishment of networks regarding provenance research on collections from colonial contexts. These networks are to include not only research conducted in Lower Saxony but also comparable projects in the German-speaking and other European countries,
  • Transparency and initiation of a dialogue about the origin of the objects and their future handling, based on accessibility of the collections under research to all interested parties.
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Spotlights

The Braunschweig Municipal Museum was founded in 1861 by committed Braunschweig citizens, with the aim of housing collections relating to the art and cultural history of the city...

 

Municipal Museum Braunschweig

Collection

The Ethnological Collection of the Georg-August-University Göttingen is one of the most important teaching and research collections in the German-speaking world. Its beginnings date back to the time of the Enlightenment....

 

Ethnographic Collection of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

Collection

The Landesmuseum Hannover, the largest national state museum in Lower Saxony, houses the Department of Ethnology, Archaeology and Natural History as well as the State Gallery. It evolved from the Museum für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Museum of Art and Science), founded in 1856 by civic associations...

 

Lower Saxon State Museum Hanover

Collection

Das 1844 gegründete Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum (RPM) in Hildesheim (vormals: Städtisches Museum, ab 1894 Roemer-Museum, seit 1911 Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum) ist ein Mehrspartenmuseum...

Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim

Sammlung

The State Museum Nature and Man Oldenburg was founded in 1836 by Grand Duke Paul Friedrich August von Oldenburg (1783-1853). The purchase of a collection of insects, birds, and mammals that had been constituted especially for the museum by the Delmenhorst District Physicist Dr. Otto Ernst Oppermann (1764-1851) even dates back to the year 1835...

 

State Museum Nature and Man Oldenburg

Collection

1849 gründete der lutherische Pastor Ludwig Harms in dem kleinen niedersächsischen Ort Hermannsburg die „Hermannsburger Mission“ und begann mit der Ausbildung von Missionaren, mit dem Ziel, diese zu den damals so genannten Gallas (jetzt: Oromo) nach Abessinien (jetzt: Äthiopien) zu entsenden...

Evangelisch-lutherisches Missionswerk in Niedersachsen

Sammlung