Decolonising knowledge/Colonial at Landesmuseum Zurich
Exhibition “Colonial" at Landesmuseum Zurich
- Exhibition visited on January 18th, 2025 in the frame of the project Decolonising knowledge in Switzerland
Data in the Wikimedia projects and other relevant resources
[edit]- Main Wikidata items:
- Exhibition: Q131994479
- National Museum Zurich: Q691896
- Prangins Castle: Q530659
- Categories on Wikimedia Commons:
- Articles about the museum on Wikipedia:
- in English: Swiss National Museum
- in German: Landesmuseum Zurich
- in French: Musée national suisse
References
[edit]- Musesum's website
- Exhibition's webpage
- Official exhibition's subpage with detailed description
- From the Landesmuseum's official blog:
- The journey of the headless horseman by Alice Hertzog (on one of the looted Benin bronzes, now in the collection of the University of Zurich)
- The long journey of the Ekeko, by Tomás Bartoletti (on a Pucara-style figure from the sacred place of Tiwanaku illegitimately appropriated by Swiss naturalist and diplomat Johann Jakob von Tschudi in 1858 - the sculpture has now been returned to Bolivia)
- Letters from Amazonia, by Reto Bleuer (on Swiss migration in the 19th century)
- Cocoa in Ghana: how it all began, by Pascale Meyer, (on the Basel Mission and the cocoa trade in the Gold Coast region in the 19th century)
- Fritz Ramseyer – Swiss missionary and colonial agent, by Peter Haenger (on the Swiss missionary Fritz Ramseyer and the Basel Mission to Kumasi, the capital city of the West African Asante Empire, in the 19th century)
- The Basel Mission’s first African female teacher, by Noëmi Crain Merz (on Catherine Zimmermann-Mulgrave, slave trade and Christian missionary work in West Africa in the 19th century)
- Green gold from Dutch India, by Gabriel Heim (on Swiss botanists in Buitenzorg on the island of Java in the 19th century)
- The transatlantic slave trade, by Noëmi Crain Merz (on European slave trade from Africa to the Americas after slavery was abolished in the Old Continent in the 19th century, also to the benefit of Swiss companies and families)
- more posts in the category Colonialism
Content presented in the exhibition
[edit]Topics
[edit]- Colonialism
- Colonialism in Switzerland
- History of Switzerland
- Enslavement
- Swiss merchants
- Swiss mercenaries
- Settler colonies
- Colonial gaze
- Walter Mittelholzer (1894–1937), Swiss aviation pioneer, photographer and entrepreneur (d:Q562310)
- Swiss Missions
- Basel Mission, (d:Q355684)
- Swiss Experts
- Swiss scientists
- Exploiting nature
- Racism
- Decolonization
Contributing artists
[edit]- Denise Bertschi, artist
- Sasha Huber, artist
- Chris Pappan, artist
- Mathias C. Pfund, artist
- Deneth Piumakshi, artist
- Veda Arachchige, artist
- Dom Sma, artist