Environments

This case study examines the environment (and environments) in museums and museums as environments. It connects perspectives on collection history, environmental anthropology and political ecology with questions on how museums shape their local and global environments, and how these environments, in turn, change museums.

Tahani Nadim

The politics of conservation: mapping critique

The literature on conservation encompasses a number of critical perspectives.

  • environments
  • biodiversity
  • conservation
  • 26.01.2024
Tahani Nadim

The politics of conservation: outlining the problem

  • environments
  • biodiversity
  • 26.01.2024
Mareike Vennen

Naval Shipworms and Environmental History in the Museum

A large cupboard in the malacological collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin contains wooden pieces of different sizes, shapes, and origins.

  • 11.05.2022
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Mareike Vennen

Museum environments

  • naturkunde
  • sammlungen
  • schädlinge
  • 11.05.2022

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