The Museum in Reverse? Decolonizing the Ethnographic Collection

In November 2014 the curator Clémentine Deliss delivered a startling address at the Museu d’art Contemporani de Barcelona. At the time Deliss was the director of the Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) in Frankfurt, an ethnographic museum established in 1904; her talk was part of a conference titled “Decolonising the Museum.” Her talk stood … Continue reading The Museum in Reverse? Decolonizing the Ethnographic Collection