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#38 O – Objektgeschichte(n) (Histories of artefacts)

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Every object has its (pre‑)history, even an artwork in a museum.

Why is it in the museum and how did it get there?
Did it have another function and another significance earlier in a different place? If so, who attributed this function and significance to it?
Through how many, and whose, hands has the artefact passed?

The biography of an artefact tells not only the story of the artwork; it holds within itself also the story of the people associated with it.

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