Wayne Modest (Prof. Dr.) is the director of content at the National Museum of World Cultures and the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands (NMVW/WMR). He is also head of the Research Center for Material Culture, the research institute of these museums, and professor of material culture and critical heritage studies at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. A cultural studies scholar by training, he works at the intersection of material culture, memory and heritage studies, with a strong focus on colonialism and its afterlives in Europe and the Caribbean.
Claudia Augustat (Dr.) studied ethnology, art history and Indian art history at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and was awarded her PhD from the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. She worked at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt a.M. and at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin before she became the curator for South American Collections at the Weltmuseum Wien in 2004. Since 2019 she has been the project leader of »Taking Care. Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Places of Care«. Her research focuses on Amazonian collections from the 19th century, material culture and cultural memory, on collaborative curatorship and the decolonization of museum praxis.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Spaces of Care: Introduction 9
The Museum as a Space of Radical Imagination: Dismantling and Rebuilding Political Worlds 25
The Future Claimant's Representative: On the Task of the Museum in the Time of the Planet 39
Toward a Negative Zoology: Not-Knowing for a Post- Anthropocene Future 51
Holding On, Letting Go: Escaping the Contemporary Museum 59
Experiment and Excavation in the Ethnographic Museum: Care, Cruelty, and Barbara Harrisson 69
Museums of Non-Natural History 77
Alongside One Another: Myth-Making and Risk in Narrativizing Enslavement at the Cape of Good Hope 83
Yuki Kihara's Going Native at Museum Volkenkunde 97
Conversation between Fernanda Olivares, Nicolás Spencer, Nora Haas, and Claudia Augustat 103
Shared Reflections on Artistic Creation Processes in Times of COVID-19 109
The Art of Hawaiian Quilting 117
Reflections on A Collection in Turmoil. A Three-Day Workshop Held in September 2022 at MUCIV 123
Curators As Mediators Between the Community and Museum 129
Seko Na Seko (Forever) 135
gathering, weathering 139
The Cursed Land of Lustful Women 145
Turning the Gaze Outside-In - Exploring Danish Pasts in Graphic Storytelling 151
Wood, Ivory, and Palm Nuts: A (Dis)Continuation of an Old Sengele Story 159
Climate Crisis - The Decline of Biodiversity and an Over 140-Year-Old Necklace 163
The Doum Palm Between Colonial Exploitation and Collecting 167
Native Hawaiian Kapa: Rebuilding a Sustainable Future 173
A World in a Box: Education and/or Extraction in a Dutch Colonial School Collection 177
Hundred-year-old Seediq Stories in the Swedish Collection 181
Yeil koowú - A Raven's Tail Ceremonial Robe 185
Cotton Cultivation in Togo Through the Lens of Europe's Periphery 189
Gentle Glory: Loss, Exile, and Survival in an Eleventh Century Tibetan Bodhisattva 193
Skin and the Archive: Reading Ecology and Colonial Legacies in a Kuria Drum 197
Rethinking Worldviews Through the Moche Blood Ceremony Ceramic Vessel: Lessons from the Past for an Environmentally Just Future 201
Maize Deity or Spirit in the Andean Worldview 205
Corona Puppet 209
Biographies of Contributors 213