Collections from Colonial Contexts

The portal offers central access to Collections from Colonial Contexts. As subportal of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) it aggregates data of 25 institutions and makes them searchable via its own user interface. Being part of the 3-road strategy, the portal is the first prototypical step towards a comprehensive and central digital publication of information on collections from colonial contexts in German heritage institutions. For essential information on the subject of „colonialism and museums“, the website refers to the Guidelines for the Care of Collections from Colonial Contexts of the German Museums Association. Currently the portal contains more than 6,600 digitised and indexed objects from colonial contexts. It is available in German and English, with further language versions planned in the future.