For decades, the rights of museums to house, exhibit, and research human remains, in particular those from Indigenous peoples collected during colonial times, has been questioned in many parts of the world. This debate has also reached the German museum community. In 2013, the German Museums Association (Deutscher Museumsbund, DMB) published the “Recommendations for the Care of Human Remains in Museums and Collections”. At the end of that year, Larissa Förster and Sarah Fründt convened an interdisciplinary workshop to critically discuss these “recommendations”. The results were later published, together with additional statements by international stakeholders.
Redaktion H-Soz-Kult: Human Remains in Museums and Collections. A Critical Engagement with the „Recommendations“
Larissa Förster, Sarah Fründt: Editorial
Larissa Förster, Sarah Fründt, Dirk Preuß, Katharina Schramm, Holger Stoecker, Andreas Winkelmann: A Good Starting Point? Critical Perspectives from Various Disciplines
Michael Pickering: A Helping Hand? Comments on the „Recommendations“
Diana Gabler, Katharina Kepplinger: Practical Aspects of the Care of Human Remains in Ethnographic Collections. Using the „Recommendations“
Te Herekiekie Herewini: A View from Aotearoa New Zealand
Ciraj Rassool: German Museums, Human Remains and the Challenges of Colonial Legacies
Robin Leipold: The „Recommendations“ in Practice: Case Study of the Karl May Museum Radebeul
Edward Halealoha Ayau, Honor Keeler: Injustice, Human Rights, and Intellectual Savagery. A Review