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Opening of the restoration department and handover of the Berlin collection inventories in Luanda
Press release from 05/17/2022
On 17 May 2022, the Goethe-Institut Angola presented the translation of the complete, multi-volume object list of the Angola collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin to the Angolan Ministry of Culture at a ceremony. In this way, the partners hope to contribute to greater transparency in the debate about collections from colonial contexts.
In addition, the Department of Preventive Conservation and Restoration was opened at the Museu Nacional de Antropologia. It is part of the comprehensive and long-term collaboration agreed between the directorate of Angola's state museums, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Goethe-Institut Angola in December 2018.
Over a period of ten months and under the direction of a Brazilian conservator, employees from various Angolan museums, the National Archives and the Angolan Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage will take part in a training programme in the field of conservation and restoration.
The highlight of the ceremony will be the final brushstroke with which Angolan Vice President Bornito de Sousa Baltazar Diogo will symbolically complete the successful conservation of the first group of endangered artefacts from the Luanda collection.
With over 6,000 objects, the collection of the Museu Nacional de Antropologia (MNA) in Luanda is considered the most comprehensive Angolan collection in the world. Its history is closely linked to the Angolan collection of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. Both were created in colonial contexts.
In addition to training, the project includes a residency at the Ethnological Museum Berlin and an international specialist workshop in Luanda. With the support of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Goethe-Institut is not only facilitating the first ever Angolan training programme in the field of restoration, but is also committed to the preservation of acutely endangered objects in Angola's ethnological collections.
The project is funded by the Federal Foreign Office's "International Museum Co-operation" programme. Partners are the Ethnological Museum Berlin (SMB-PK) and the Museu Nacional de Antropologia (Luanda).
Further information can be found at:
www.goethe.de/angola
www.facebook.com/goetheangola
www.instagram.com/goetheinstitutangola
Contact:
Gabriele Stiller-Kern
Institute Director
Goethe-Institut Angola
Tel.: +244 929 247 355
gabriele.stiller-kern@goethe.de
Viola Noll
Deputy Press Officer
Goethe-Institut
Capital Office
Phone: +49 30 25906471
noll@goethe.de
Ingolf Kern
Birgit Jöbstl
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Tel.: +49 30 266-41 14 40
pressestelle@hv.spk-berlin.de
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