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Exhibitions in Switzerland

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Exhibition Museum Location Opening Until Link Wikidata WM Commons OSF
Stranger in the Village. Reflecting on Racism with James Baldwin Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau 03.09.2023 07.01.2024 [1] Q132775037
Spatial Convers(i)or CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel Neuchâtel 21.09.2024 10.11.2024 [2] Q132775076
Cargo Cults Unlimited Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel Neuchâtel 17.12.2023 31.12.2024 extended to 18.01.2026 [3] Q132775400
Naming natures. Natural History and Colonial Legacy Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Neuchâtel (MHNN) Neuchâtel 15.12.2024 18.08.2025 [4] Q131928761
Remembering. Geneva in the Colonial World Musée d'ethnographie de Genève MEG Geneva 03.05.2024 05.01.2025 [5] Q131597402 Geneva in the Colonial World https://osf.io/tjd32/
colonial – Switzerland’s Global Entanglements Landesmuseum Zürich Zurich 13.09.2024 19.01.2025 [6] d:Q131994479 Colonial at Landesmuseum Zurich https://osf.io/rqxyw/
In Dialogue with Benin. Art, Colonialism and Restitution Museum Rietberg Zurich 23.08.2024 16.02.2025 [7] Q131824580 In Dialogue with Benin https://osf.io/39wh4/
Colonial Traces - Collections in Context ETH Zurich Zurich 30.08.2024 13.07.2025 [8] Q131795290 Colonial Traces at ETH Zurich https://osf.io/hxye5/
Benin Dues. Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures Ethnographic Museum University of Zurich Zurich 24.08.2024 14.09.2025 [9] Q131824643 Benin Dues - Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures https://osf.io/a2wmc/
Resistances. On Dealing with Racism in Bern Bernisches Historisches Museum Bern 25.04.2024 01.06.2025 [10] Q132775552
Kakao, Kunst und Kolonialismus. Die Schifffahrtssammlung Philipp Keller Verkehrshaus / Hans Erni Museum Lucerne 21.11.2024 07.06.2026 [11] Q132795736
Autobiographie d’une selle métis at the MCAH (Collections invisibles 2024) Musée cantonal d'archéologie et d'histoire (MCAH) Lausanne 11.10.2024 13.04.2025 [12] Q132795835 https://osf.io/vgeht/
Tracey Rose. Shooting Down Babylon Kunstmuseum Bern Bern 2.02.2024 11.08.2024 [13] Q132795844
Roots Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger - KBH.G Basel 30.08.2024 17.11.2024 [14] Q132795943 Exhibition Roots KBH.G
Artiste activist archivist: Bernhard Lüthi invite Fondation Opale Lens 16.06.2024 10.11.2024 [15] Q132796484
Ethnic Marketing. Art, Globalisation and Intercultural Supply and Demand Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève Geneva 21.10.2004 05.12.2004 [16] Q132796509
Chimney sweeps and child labour at the Museum Val Verzasca

Lavoro minorile ieri, e oggi? (Child labor yesterday, and today?)

Museo di Val Verzasca Sonogno 17.04.2021 permanent [17] All'interno del Museo di Val Verzasca Q25399919 Museo di Val Verzasca https://osf.io/bgmuh/
Adapted version of the exhibition colonial – Switzerland’s Global Entanglements Château de Prangins Prangins 27.03.2026 11.10.2026 [18]
Experiences of Switzerland – Forced fostering Landesmuseum Zürich Zurich 14.01.2025 27.04.2025 [19] Q132796563

Institutions

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Location Museum Wikidata Situation 2024
Aarau Aargauer Kunsthaus Q29574934 Some documentation on Wikimedia Commons.
Basel Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger - KBH.G Q120734712 Only one photo on Wikidata (no label). No link to category on Wikimedia Commons. Only present in the German Wikipedia.
Bern Bernisches Historisches Museum Q670058 The wikidata item points not to the general category on Wikimedia Commons.
Bern Kunstmuseum Bern Q194622 Some documentation on Wikimedia Commons.
Geneva MEG - Musée d'ethnographie de Genève Q1955752 Organiser of the GLAMHack 2023. Extensive documentation on Wikimedia Commons (exhibitions, collections...).
Geneva Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève Q683970 Only a few images on Creative Commons.
Lausanne Cantonal Museum of Archeology and History (MCAH) Q3329513 Very rich documentation on Wikimedia Commons.
Lens Fondation Opale Q107080881 Only one photo on Wikidata (no label). Minimal documentation on Wikimedia Commons. Only present in the French Wikipedia.
Lucerne Hans Erni Museum Q3329191 No category about the museum on Wikimedia Commons.
Lucerne Verkehrshaus Q670595 Very rich documentation on Wikimedia Commons.
Neuchâtel CAN - Centre d’art Neuchâtel Q130247632 Added category on Wikimedia Commons.
Neuchâtel Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel / Ethnographic museum of Neuchâtel (MEN) Q239080 At the moment images of the exhibition Himàlaia. Visions de l'alteritat als col·leccions of MEN.
Neuchâtel Muséum d'histoire naturelle / Natural history museum of Neuchâtel (MHNN) Q3330885 Extensive documentation on Wikimedia Commons
Sonogno Museo di Val Verzasca Q25399919 Extensive documentation on Wikimedia Commons
Zurich Landesmuseum Zürich / National museum Zurich Q691896 Organiser of the GLAMHack 2018. Good documentation about the museum on Wikimedia Commons. The content related to exhibitions could be increased.
Zurich Museum Rietberg Q668300 Actively involved in the GLAMHacks :) Extensive. documentation on Wikimedia Commons about the collections
Zurich ETH Zurich Q11942 Organiser of the GLAMHack 2021. Extensive documentation and collaboration with the Wikimedia projects.
Zurich Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich / Ethnographic museum of the University of Zurich Q2536345 Few images on Wikimedia Commons, mainly exteriors.

Associations and groups

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Associations and groups Wikidata Wikimedia Commons Link
Noircir Wikipédia association: Q130667794

Wikipedia project: Q63870968

Noircir Wikipédia https://noircirwikipedia.org/
AfroBasel Verein Q131784518 https://www.afrobasel.ch/
CARAH – Collective for Anti-Racist Art History, University Zürich, Kunsthistorisches Institut Q113170087 https://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/research/projects/carah.html
Das Wandbild muss weg! Q132775584 https://www.daswandbildmussweg.ch/
ZH Kolonial (decolonial city tour project Zürich Kolonial) Q131794084 https://www.zh-kolonial.ch
Swiss Association for Provenance Research Q117306193 Swiss Association for Provenance Research https://provenienzforschung.ch/
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Research project Dates Lead institution PI Wikidata
Curating Colonial Nature: Legacies of Empire in Swiss Natural History Collections, 1870s-1950s ETH Zurich Monique Ligtenberg Q132796627
Medicine, Masculinities, and Colonial Knowledge: Transimperial Histories of German-speaking Physicians in the Dutch East Indies (c. 1873-1914) ETH Zurich Monique Ligtenberg
Behaving badly: ‘European deviance’ in colonial Singapore, c. 1890-1940 ETH Zurich Zhi Qing Denise Lim
Kolonialismus ohne Kolonien? Eine postkoloniale Diskursanalyse der Schweiz / Colonialism without colonies? A postcolonial discourse analysis of Switzerland 2010-2013 ETH Zurich Patricia Purtschert
Kolonialismus ohne Kolonien? Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Analyse der postkoloniale Schweiz / Colonialism without colonies? A cultural studies analysis of post-colonial Switzerland 2013-2014 ETH Zurich Patricia Purtschert
Decolonisation working group at ETH. Please refer to Decolonising knowledge/Colonial Traces at ETH Zurich. ETH Zurich
Fighting Insect Enemies at the Tropical Frontier: Swiss and German Entomologists in Plantation Economies c. 1880-1930 2023-2027 ETH Zurich Tomás Bartoletti
Nommer les Natures: Sur les traces du Humboldt suisse 2022-2025 ETH Zurich

Agora

Tomás Bartoletti Q132798171
Insect Pests and Economic Entomology in Plantations, c. 1870-1930s: A Multispecies History of Global Capitalism ETH Zurich Tomás Bartoletti
Swiss entanglements in nineteenth century Latin America: Johann Jakob von Tschudi’s voyages, translocated practices of knowledge and the construction of Andean Indigeneity 2018 ETH Zurich Tomás Bartoletti Q132797261
Benin Initiative Switzerland (BIS)

Please refer to Decolonising knowledge/In Dialogue with Benin at Museum Rietberg.

Museum Rietberg / Q131824613
Welfare and Coercion – Past, Present and Future 2017-2022 SNSF National Research Programme 76 https://www.nfp76.ch / Q132796577
Moral and economic entrepreneurship in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. A collaborative history of Global Switzerland c. 1830-1900 2022-2026 University of Lausanne Bernhard Schär
Swiss 'Tools of Empire'. A transnational history of mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies, 1814-1914 2017-2021 ETH Zurich Bernhard Schär
Kopfjäger und Schädelsammler. Eine Fallstudie zur schweizerischen Naturforschung im Kontext des Hochimperialismus / Head hunters and skull collectors. A case study of Swiss natural history research in the context of high imperialism (working title) 2010-2012 University of Lausanne Bernhard Schär
Neuchâtel face à la colonisation: circulations, intrications et mémoire 2023-2027 University of Neuchatel Kristina Schulz, Matthieu Gillabert Q132798186
Afrika hinter Glas. Eine künstlerische und ethnographische Untersuchung von Herstellungs-, Darstellungs- und Instandhaltungspraktiken der Berner Dioramensammlung / Africa behind glass. An artistic and ethnographic study of the production, presentation and maintenance practices of the Bernese diorama collection 2020-2024 Berne University of Applied Sciences – BFH Priska Gisler
Les relations culturelles internationales de la Suisse (1945-1990) 2006-2009 University of Fribourg Matthieu Gillabert
Research Film Provenance. Annotating the film collection of the former Swiss Tropical Institute 2024-2025 University of Basel Mario Schulze
String Figures. A Cultural Practice between Art, Anthropology and Theory 2024 University of Lucerne Mario Schulze, Sarine Waltenspül
Un 'colonialisme' occulté. La Suisse et l'Italie, 1923-1950: transactions financières, relations commerciales et réseaux d'affaires 2006 / Dario Gerardi
Colonialism without Colonies. An international Workshop (conference) 2013 ETH Zürich
Comics and Swiss colonialism(s) 2020-2022 Université de Genève Sandro Cattacin
Suisse et décolonisation: le cas de l’Association des Suisses spoliés d’Algérie ou d’outre-mer (ASSAOM) 2016-2019 Université de Genève Sandro Cattacin, Stefanie Prezioso
Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies. A Transimperial History of Military Labour, 1848-1914 (book, open access) 2024 ETH Zurich Philipp Krauer
Géographie et impérialisme. De la Suisse au Congo entre exploration géographique et conquête coloniale (book, open access) 2021 University of Lausanne Fabio Rossinelli
Les sociétés suisses de géographie et l'impérialisme colonial européen 2017-2018 (SNSF Doc.Mobility funding scheme) Fabio Rossinelli
Sharing Knowledge in the Arts:'THEswissTHING (1994-98)' 2023-2027 FHNW Lucie Kolb
Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment (conference) 2007 University of Lucerne Christoph Beat Graber
International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Legal and Policy Issues (conference) 2011 University of Lucerne Christoph Beat Graber
International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Legal and Policy Issues 2009-2013 University of Lucerne Christoph Beat Graber
The (In)Audible Past 2022-2026 University of Basel Ute Holl, Gary Andrew Minkley, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, Lorena Rizzo
Objekt-Bild-Text. Verflochtene Wissensproduktion in Hans Himmelhebers Archiv zwischen Kunst Afrikas, Ethnologie und globalem Markt / Object-image-text. Interwoven knowledge production in Hans Himmelheber's archive between African art, ethnology and the global market 2018-2023 University of Zurich
Provenienzforschung: Eine Wissenschaftspraxis in der Diskussion / Provenance research: A scientific practice under discussion (conference) 2021 Swiss Institute of Art Research – SIK-ISEA Roger Fayet
The Temporal Dimension of Sovereignty in Light of the Restitution of Cultural Artefacts 2020-2022 University of Geneva Francesco Romani
Collecting Humanity: How Human Remains Are Made into Museum Objects 2011-2015 University of Lucerne Marianne Sommer
A Global History of Swiss Diplomacy 2015-2019 University of Basel Madeleine Herren-Oesch
Zwischen Glaube, Handel und Internationalismus. Die Basler Mission als globaler Akteur, 1910-1925 / Between faith, trade and internationalism. The Basel Mission as a global player, 1910-1925 2014-2017 University of Basel Madeleine Herren-Oesch
Restauration transculturelle et postcoloniale: une fabrique matérielle de l'histoire (2000-2010) 2011-2012 (Fellowships for prospective researchers) Columbia University (USA) Noémie Etienne
Restauration transculturelle et postcoloniale: une fabrique matérielle de l'histoire (2000-2010) 2012-2013 (Fellowships for prospective researchers) New York University (USA) Noémie Etienne
Faire exotique? Production, usages et matérialité de l'ailleurs en France et Suisse au 18e siècle 2016-2020 University of Berne Noémie Etienne
Faire exotique? Production, usages et matérialité de l'ailleurs en France et Suisse au 18e siècle 2020-2023 University of Berne Noémie Etienne
Une Suisse exotique? Une histoire globale des Lumières 2019-2021 University of Berne Noémie Etienne, Claire Brizon, Chonja Lee
Les arts au prisme de la décolonisation. De la recherche en provenance aux approches collaboratives 2022 (Funding scheme: Scientific Exchanges) University of Neuchatel Sara Petrella
Digital Twins: negotiating identity and translocated heritage in the global age 2023-2026 EPF Lausanne Sarah Kenderdine, Ankita Sharma, Yaniv Benhamou, Chhanda Chakraborti, Mayurakshi Chaudhuri, Santanu Chaudhury, Debashish Das, Nirmala Menon
Entangled Histories and Archives: Swiss-Southern African histories and the contexts of global Anti-Apartheid archives 2013 (Funding scheme: International short research visits) Dag Henrichsen, Peter C. Limb

Patricia Purtschert / Barbara Lüthi / Francesca Falk (Hg.), Postkoloniale Schweiz: Formen und Folgen eines Kolonialismus ohne Kolonien, 2012.

Researchers / curators Wikidata
Marina Amstad Q136324699
Martine Anderfuhren Q132796524
Tomás Bartoletti Q132774289
Yaniv Benhamou Q105757777
Denise Bertschi Q132236718 improved
Kathleen Bühler Q131697711
Sandro Cattacin Q95225529
Chhanda Chakraborti Q58638087
Tandazani Dhlakama Q130666226
Céline Eidenbenz Q115770282
Noémie Étienne Q27925416
Francesca Falk Q112463124
Roger Fayet Q2161688
Matthieu Gillabert Q132798199
Christoph Beat Graber Q5111687
Madeleine Herren-Oesch Q117014
Dag Henrichsen Q112355048
Alice Hertzog Q131994713
Ute Holl Q113770243
Sarah Kenderdine Q18632143
Lucie Kolb Q103848914
Gesine Krüger Q25402943
Monique Ligtenberg Q131795604
Jessica Litman Q90699490
Alexis Malefakis Q113838026
Floriane Morin Q113788977
Michaela Oberhofer Q111832433
Georges Petitjean Q115193989
Helena Pohlandt-McCormick Q64708080
Stéfanie Prezioso Q72063373
Patricia Purtschert Q57980285
Lorena Rizzo Q133643158
Fabio Rossinelli Q133690797
Bernhard Schär Q95330843
Michael Schindhelm Q91954
Kristina Schulz Q21264236
Mario Schulze Q113838824
Raphael Schwere Q130791220
Marianne Sommer Q64869899
Esther Tisa Francini Q109834709
Tirdad Zolghadr Q7809162

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