Claudia Augustat

Claudia Augustat holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and has been curating the South America collections at Weltmuseum Wien since 2004. From 2015 to 2017, she was in charge of revising the new permanent exhibition at Weltmuseum Wien. She is the head of the project TAKING CARE: Ethnographic and World Culture Museums as Spaces of Care, co-funded by the European Union and initiated in October 2019. Her research focuses on on collections from the Amazon and Tierra del Fuego, material culture and cultural memory, museum and colonialism, collaborative curatorship and decolonising museum practice.

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'Extinctions!?' exhibition Weltmuseum Wien

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Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

Matters of Care: Museum futures in times of planetary precarity CONFERENCE CANCELLED

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