Together with the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, the German Lost Art Foundation wants to continue researching Cameroonian cultural heritage in Germany. Starting in November, the museum and the Center announced that collections in the country's five largest ethnographic museums will be examined. The focus will be on cultural assets from four Cameroonian communities whose heritage came into the collections during the German colonial period between 1884 and 1919.
The collections of the Linden Museum, the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin, the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony with museums in Leipzig and Dresden and the Museum am Rothenbaum - Cultures and Arts of the World in Hamburg are to be examined. They are carrying cultural objects from the Bakoko, Bamum, Duala and Maka tribes, it was reported. A total of around 500 objects - including thrones, sceptres and swords - are to be examined.
