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Erfurt (dpa / th) - The Museum Association of Thuringia (MVT), with the support of the Thuringian State Chancellery, has created two new scientific bodies to intensify and consolidate research on the origin of museum objects.
"Provenance research is one of the core tasks of museums today, but it is often difficult to implement in everyday practice due to the personnel structure," said MVT President Thomas T. Müller.
From June, the smaller and medium-sized museums in Thuringia will be advised on the topic with the help of the new employees and inquiries will be coordinated centrally by the MVT.
In addition, research on the non-European collections in Thuringian museums is to be continued and the knowledge about provenance research is to be passed on to the museums.
Both positions are limited until the end of 2022.
In spring 2020, Sarah-Mae Liverse spent six months at the Greiz Summer Palace, the Camburg City Museum, the Nordhausen City Museum and the Museum642-Pößneck City History, to see whether there were any indications of looted property from the Nazi era in their collections.
The results will be presented soon.
Since the beginning of February, the ethnologist Friederike Brinker has also 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.
Her assignment ends in June.
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A continuation is desirable, in particular in order to be able to deepen the two other research priorities of the Nazi period as well as the period of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR, it said in the message of the MVT.
Provenance research is an integral part of the work in museums, libraries, archives and on the art market.
It 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 descendants of previous owners is also always an issue.
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