In the first floor of the Grassi Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig there is a gilded Buddhist altar shrine from Japan, two stone lions from China, a man-high wooden idol from the Marquesas Islands, the candlestick figure of a miner from the Ore Mountains and a toboggan from Potsdam, along with twenty other ethnological ones Large objects in a white hall with high windows and wait. What are you waiting for? That the museum will find a place for them. According to a press release from the museum, they are “on the way between the old exhibition, depot and temporary storage”.
The paper does not mention a reorganization. Instead, with the patchwork of objects, the museum wants to provide “insight into the movement logistics” of things that lost their original place during the renovation phase of the collection. Thus the Buddha altar, the lions, the wooden idol, the miner and the sledge will remain in restless proximity for some time to come, until the curators have found a new home for them – and a new sense of their own doing.
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