On Friday, the 14th of March, the exhibition experiment entitled “Verstrengelde verhalen: kolonialisme en wetenschap in de collectie van Petrus Camper” (in English: “Entangled Histories: Colonialism and Science in the Collections of Petrus Camper”) was opened at the Universiteitsmuseum Groningen (GUM). Our Postdoc researchers Lisette Jong and Paul Wolff Mitchell had been working hard on it with Anne-Marie Woerlee (from the Wereldmuseum), Lars Hendrikman (Director of GUM) and the GUM team. It was a successful and meaningful event, with many people attending, including some members of the Universiteit Groningen Faculty Board. The exhibition is open until Monday, the 15^th of September. More information can be found via this link. 

Following up on the exhibition, an article was published by the Ukrant Magazine, discussing the restitution of the skull of a Khoikhoi woman from Petrus Camper’s collection at the GUM who is currently kept in the University Museum’s facility. Paul Wolff Mitchell and Lars Hendrikman gave an interview in the article. Our winter school alumni Tauriq Jenkins, who is High Commissioner of the Goringhaicona Khoikhoi Indigenous Traditional Council, performed a ceremony last month before the skull was removed from the museum.