Abstract
In the scope of the decolonizing turn, the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich explores the need for new sharing formats and dialogues on collections with originator societies and beyond. In collaboration with colleagues from the Saamaka Museum in Pikiseei, Suriname, we pursued the question of how museums may appropriately address originator societies’ concerns about their object diasporas in Western museums. Here an exhibition proved useful as an occasion for carefully exploring attitudes by means of a skilled dialogue towards a collection originating from Pikiseei and neighbouring villages and collected by Heinrich Harrer in 1966.
Powroznik, Maike