Ethical issues on colonialism, racism and the marginalised in the Zagreb Ethnographic Museum

The Ethnographic Museum Zagreb presents the exhibition “Travellers” – Collection of Non-European Cultures, tracing the journeys of people and objects from colonial times to the present day.
The workshop and the exhibition raise key questions:
  • How were national museums and collections of non-European cultures created?
  • How have museums shaped the Western perspective of the “exotic -Other” and reinforced cultural stereotypes?
  • What role should ethics and responsibility play in museums today?

The Zagreb Ethnographic Museum holds a collection of around 80,000 objects relating to the ethnographic heritage of Croatia.  Zagreb Ethnographic Museum

The museum has smaller collections from Latin America, Africa, India and Australia. They were brought by Croatian missionaries and researchers.