Curriculum Vitae of Objects

Provenance research deals with the origin of objects. This covers a multitude of facets, ranging from ancient production, trade in antiquity, the excavation site and context to today's storage location or exhibition in a museum - in the case of archaeological objects, a millennia-long history.

and exciting history ...

As part of the exhibition, the various subject areas (scientific classification, production, origin/place of discovery, post-antique life cycle of objects and legal foundations) will be addressed and presented using examples of ongoing research work from the Department of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bern. The topics range from the ancient origin, the scientific identification and dating of the objects to their reception in the 19th and early 20th centuries and the subject of the Archaeologica of the Gurlitt Legacy.

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