News
Cologne Crossroads Conversations 2
The second event in the ‘Cologne Crossroads Conversations’ series, organised by the RJM in cooperation with the University of Cologne, will take place on Thursday, 16 January 2025 at 6 pm.
The social and cultural anthropologist Esra Özyürek and the English and literary scholar Michael Rothberg will discuss the topic: ‘Common remembrance - polyphonic remembrance? On solidarity and belonging in the post-migrant present’. Germany's reappraisal of its past and its culture of remembrance are internationally recognised as unique. But critical enquiries are increasing... Click here for the detailed flyer.
RJM in the online portal "Collection items from colonial contexts"
From 9 July, the German Digital Library will provide central access to digitized collections from colonial contexts in German cultural and knowledge institutions with the online portal "Collections from colonial contexts". The new portal is aimed in particular at people from countries and societies of origin and provides information about objects and their history in German, English and French. It can be used free of charge and without registration.
The RJM is there with 6929 data records!
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Get a picture!
The Recognition Machine
Who are the people looking back at us from the photos in our collection? What does the colonial past have to do with each and every one of us? The artwork "The Recognition Machine" by Antje Van Wichelen and Michael Murtaugh addresses these questions and playfully brings visitors into contact with historical portraits from the RJM archive and other European museum collections.
Your turn! - SPACE4KIDS
With Your turn! - SPACE4KIDS, we want to open our doors wide to children to try out new participatory formats and methods with them and create a large experimental space for sensory, playful and collective experiences. In workshops and hands-on tours, children discover the museum and take a look behind the scenes, and can contribute their wishes and ideas to make the museum an inclusive meeting place for fun, reflection, exchange, movement, curiosity, celebration, creativity and empowerment.
The SPACE4KIDS is open on all Sundays and on all Cologne Days from 10 am to 6 pm. There is a hands-on tour every Sunday from 11am-12pm.