Projects
A large number of projects are carried out at the Gotha collection and research centre. These range from collection-related and source-based cataloguing, preservation and research projects to digitisation and digital humanities projects. The collections are thus made usable for science and the public. The individual institutions work closely with various national and international co-operation partners. Explore a selection of current projects.
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- Provenienzforschung
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- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
The Scientific Age in the Province
With the first assembly of the Society of German Naturalists and Physicians in 1822, according to Werner von Siemens (1886), a 'scientific age' began, in which the natural sciences opened up to…
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- Gotha Research Centre
Stategies of Collecting an Displaying China in Nineteenth-Century Germany
My research project brings renewed attention to a significant Chinese collection in early nineteenth-century Germany, the Chinese Cabinet in Gotha, established by Duke Emil August (1772–1822) of…
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- Friedenstein Castle Foundation
Provenance and collection research
Provenance and collection research at the Friedenstein Foundation Gotha has the task of reconstructing the multifaceted history of the collections.
The museum's holdings look back on almost 400 years…
- Friedenstein Castle Foundation
Provenance and history of the Friedenstein Foundation Gotha's collection of Indonesian skulls
An international team led by Adrian Linder, ethnologist and associated researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, investigated the provenance of a total of 41 human…