Alles kolonial? Sammeln im ethnologischen Museum (Vortrag)

The Linden-Museum Stuttgart houses around 160,000 art, ritual and everyday objects from the Americas, Africa, the Islamic Orient, Asia and the South Seas. The lecture looks back on more than 100 years of collecting activity from the beginnings of the collection to the present day, using a number of examples.

What was the reason for this extensive collection and how did the cultural heritage from around the world come to Stuttgart?

Prof. Dr. Inés de Castro studied ethnology at the University of Bonn and completed her doctorate in 2002. After her traineeship at the Bavarian State Painting Collections and the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich, a research stay in Mexico followed in 2005. In 2005, de Castro worked in the exhibition secretariat and as a research assistant at the state exhibition "The Desert" in Rosenheim. Initially as a curator, she then took on the post of deputy director of the ethnological collection at the Roemer and Peliziaeus Museum in Hildesheim. Since February 2010, Prof. Dr. Inés de Castro has been Director of the Linden-Museum Stuttgart - State Museum of Ethnology.