Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne is a museum in transition, searching for new ways to transform itself into an interdisciplinary forum for a post-migrant society. It was founded in the Colonial Era and an important part of the collection dates back to the time before the First World War. The collection comprises around 70,000 everyday and ritual objects and around 100,000 historical photographs from Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific. Based on this historical collection, it focuses on the colonial legacy, the exploration of new curatorial methods of collaboration and seeks new approaches for communicating current issues.
The photographic archive has long been at the centre of attention. Photographs from the late 19th century to 1945 form the core of the collection, which is closely linked geographically and chronologically to German colonial rule. It reflects the widespread striving towards encyclopaedic recording in the 19th century - the documentation, categorisation and classification of the world and its inhabitants. The opening of the archive in search of new forms of expression and decolonial spaces for action in the museum characterise the work with the photographs.
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