Germany allocates €1.9m for museums to research colonial-era acquisitions

Title: Germany allocates €1.9m for museums to research colonial-era acquisitions
Author: Catherine Hickley
Media Outlet: The Art Newspaper
Publish Date: February 5, 2019

“An eight-member panel including Bénédicte Savoy will assess grant applications

The German government says it has allocated €1.9m this year to provenance research for artefacts that entered museum collections during the colonial era, with the funds to be administered by the German Lost Art Foundation.

(…) Grütters says that colonial history has for many decades been a “blind spot” in Germany. “Provenance research of items with a colonial context is an important contribution to a closer examination,” she said in the statement.”