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Erfurt (dpa / th) - The Museum Association of Thuringia has started an investigation of non-European collection objects from selected museums.
Since the beginning of February, the ethnologist Friederike Brinker has been determining objects in the Lindenau Museum and in the Altenburg Castle and Playing Card Museum as well as in the Saalfeld City Museum and the Sondershausen Castle Museum.
By June, Brinker will determine how much knowledge there is already about the history of individual pieces and, based on this, examine their origins and acquisition history, the association announced on Thursday.
The museum association previously surveyed its member museums.
150 non-European objects from, in some cases, formerly private collections have already been identified.
These came from different non-European regions of the world.
Provenance research deals with the origin of works of art and cultural goods.
Again and again it is a question of how objects or human bones should be dealt with illegally from today's perspective.
The return of objects to the descendants of previous owners is also always an issue.
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So far, the non-European collection items have hardly been researched due to the lack of specialist scientists in Thuringia, it said.
The project is now being funded by the State Chancellery.
Last autumn, the museum association started a similar project to research Thuringian collections with a focus on possible looted property from the time of National Socialism.
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