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Minna Takala: New Archetype for Museums. “The most obvious new aspect of the Storehouse is that it is totally transparent, exposing the collection of 250,000 objects to public viewing. The building is literally a warehouse (like Amazon) where you can walk inside the corridors like in an IKEA store to see the objects placed on shelves.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/21/minna-takala-new-archetype-for-museums/
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Now an English version of our recent web publication with our students, titled "Images of the World", is available:
How were images of the world and ideas of foreignness and otherness negotiated and constituted in nineteenth-century art?
https://museumsandsociety.net/en/research/digital-image-worlds/weltbilder
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The website "Weltbilder" is the result of a seminar in #ArtHistory at #TUBerlin. The seminar examined how ideas of foreignness and otherness are negotiated and constructed in 19th century art.
The website is in German, translation will follow.
https://museumsandsociety.net/de/research/digital-image-worlds/weltbilder
#museumcollections #paintings #annotation #openscience #sciencecommunication #teaching #publishing #studentpublishing #webpublishing #digitalarthistory #decolonize
#AlexandervonHumboldt
#AiméBonpland
#FerdinandKonradBellermann
#FriedrichGeorgWeitsch
#CarlBlechen
#FriedrichAugustStüler
#PaulMeyerheim
#WilhelmKuhnert
#RadenSaleh
#AmritaSherGil
#Palmenhaus
#BerlinerZoo