As a university science museum, the Forum Wissen is more than just an exhibition center. It is a place of active research and teaching.
Forum Wissen is currently developing formats for interdisciplinary research-based teaching with objects from the Göttingen collections.
Exhibiting together with students and teaching staff is also being expanded as a method of science communication. The aim is to communicate current research to the general public.
A wonderful example of this is the collection showcase in the Forum Wissen. It is stocked by the collections of the University of Göttingen.
Research Projects
Joint Provenance Research
Human remains from colonial contexts
Provenance research in the Anthropological Collections of the University of Göttingen and MARKK Hamburg (in German)
A project sponsored by the German Lost Art Foundation
Sensitive Provenances
Research projects aims at facilitating restitution of human remains from former colonies
Research and teaching networks at the University of Göttingen
Referat Wissensforschung der Zentralen Kustodie
Professur Materialität des Wissens
Forschungskolleg “Wissen | Ausstellen” und sein Blog http://wie-wissen-ausstellen.uni-goettingen.de/
Drittmittelprojekte
Zertifikatsprogramm “Objektkompetenzen”
Praktikumsprogramme