Last round at the "Weißes Ross"
A pub in the museum? There are many inviting, sociable places in Leipzig. In recent years, numerous old pubs have had to close, including the Weißes Roß ("White Horse") owned by Jens-Thomas Nagel. It was located near the Grassimuseum, today it is housed inside of it.
Colonial violence in the north of Togo and the plunder of Biema Asabiè’s belongings
In the storerooms of the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde in Leipzig lie half a dozen of belongings of the former rulers of Sansanné-Mango, a town in northern Togo. how did they come to Leipzig? What was the role of the museum's former director, Karl Weule, in the translocation of this royal heritage? Can similar items be found in Berlin or elsewhere?
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Giving Back Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
The empire, the kingdom, the city and the people that produced those exquisite Bronzes, carved ivories and wood works, clay and iron sculptures are not in oblivion, but subject of ongoing restitution and repatriation requests. Osaisonor Godfrey Ekhator-Obogie on the history of a questionable collection and the efforts for its repatriation.
The refusal of time: restitution and the Kilimanjaro stone
Mike Mavura's article addresses the uncovering of a history obscured by colonialism. The focal point is the theft of the Kilimanjaro peak, which is given special space in the current exhibition of the reopened GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig.
