Wie Dekolonisiert man deutsche Geschichte im Museum? Lecture with Dr. Katrin Sieg

The presentation given by Dr. Sieg examined the recent special exhibition on German Colonialism at the German History Museum in Berlin to ask how the museum choreographs visitors’ encounter with a violent colonial past lodged in material objects. It also proposed criteria for assessing the museum’s effort to facilitate the labor of mourning the colonial past, as well as argued that transforming museum pedagogy must be part of decolonizing the museum.