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\nGuidelines for German Museums  \nCare of Collections from Colonial Contexts  \n3rd Edition 2021  \nPublisher: German Museums Association  \nText: see “Contributors”  \nEnglish Translation: TechniText Translations  \nEditing (English Edition): TechniText Translations  \nEditing (German Edition): Sabine Lang  \nDesign: MATTHIES WEBER & SCHNEGG, Berlin  \nPrint: medialis Offsetdruck GmbH  \nCover photo: Provenance researcher Ndzodo Awono with a leopard figurine from Cameroon, Übersee-Museum Bremen  \nPhotograph: Volker Beinhorn  \nThe content of these Guidelines has been revised and these Guidelines thus replace all previous editions.  \nThe Guidelines are also published in German and French.  \nFunded by  \n© German Museums Association, Berlin, February 2021  \nISBN 978-3-9819866-6-2  \nEXECUTIVE SUMMARY  \nThese Guidelines are a practical aid for all German museums on the care of collections from colonial contexts. They additionally provide an information base for international professional colleagues, political decision makers, as well as representatives of post-colonial initiatives and diaspora communities. The Guidelines do not represent a position paper or legally binding instructions, however.  \nThe Guidelines enhance sensitivity  \nThose in positions of responsibility at the museum should be aware that most of the items in their collections were not created or produced as a ‘museum exhibit’. They are a testimony of different cultures, with their own significances anchored in their communities of origin.  \nIn colonial contexts, the acquisition or creation of collection items can be associated with the use of force and/or pronounced dependency relationships. In addition, collection items which can be assigned to colonial contexts can reflect discriminatory representations and colonial or racist ideologies. The experiences which societies have gained in and with colonial structures are often part of their shared recollection. They can have an impact on discussion and examination processes.  \nThe care of collections from colonial contexts requires a dialogue with communities of origin and other representatives which is characterised by respect, responsibility, and sensitivity.  \nThe Guidelines offer practical support  \nCases of colonial contexts are defined and illustrated with brief examples to help readers to work with the Guidelines. They do not represent a hierarchisation or categorisation, but serve only as an aid for provenance research. These cases moreover illustrate the bandwidth and complex causes and interrelationships of colonial contexts.  \nThey provide answers to questions about the care of collections from colonial contexts from all areas of museum work – collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting and educating, as well as returning collection items. Provenance research and digitisation are key elements here to learn more about the collections and to facilitate a sustainable exchange of experience and knowledge, primarily with the communities of origin as well.  \nThe Guidelines describe the legal framework conditions for handling requests for the return of collection items and illustrate fundamental approaches to how returns maybe managed. It must again be emphasised, however, that they are not legal instructions. The complexity of colonial contexts means that considering cases on an  \nindividual basis is usually the only way to do justice to the needs and requirements of all parties involved and the significance of the collection items.  \nEach individual museum has to define its own stance and its own approach to the care of collection items from colonial contexts. These Guidelines provide fundamental starting points.  \nThe Guidelines hope to encourage all museums to enter into a transparent and constructive dialogue about colonial inheritance – on both the national and the international level.  \nThe Guidelines inform  \nThe Guidelines pro","cbCairrwKI4JW7Fa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairrwKI4JW7Fa","pdf",2630913,220,"English","# Executive Summary\n## The Guidelines enhance sensitivity\n## The Guidelines offer practical support\n## The Guidelines inform\n# Contents\n## Foreword to the Third Edition – Responsibility, Awareness, and Future-Oriented Dialogue\n## Political Demands\n## Introduction – An Interdisciplinary Guide to Active Engagement with Collections from Colonial Contexts\n## Addresses and Terminology\n## Practical Guidance: Cases of Colonial Contexts\n## Practical Guidance: Recommendations for the Care of Collections from Colonial Contexts\n## Questions and Answers\n## Recommendations for the Returning of Collection Items","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of these guidelines for German museums?\",\"answer\":\"They serve as a practical aid for German museums to care for collections from colonial contexts and provide an information base for international colleagues, political decision makers, and post-colonial initiatives and diaspora communities.\"},{\"question\":\"How should museums approach sensitivity regarding colonial collections?\",\"answer\":\"Those in responsibility should recognize that many items were not created as museum exhibits and that colonial acquisition may involve force and discriminatory or racist ideologies, affecting discussions and examination processes.\"},{\"question\":\"Do the guidelines provide legally binding return instructions?\",\"answer\":\"No. They describe legal framework conditions and fundamental approaches for managing return requests, but they are not legal instructions and decisions are typically handled on a case-by-case basis.\"}]","Guidelines for German Museums - Care of Collections from Colonial Contexts - Executive Summary | PDF",1791176813,554]