Decolonising knowledge/Zurich January 2025

Two-days dedicated to Wikipedians and Wikimedias to visit exhibitions in Zurich focusing on colonialism, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives.

Decolonising knowledge in Switzerland

Learning

The project "Decolonising knowledge in Switzerland" is bringing together Wikipedians, Swiss GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) and researchers to enhance open content and open data related to colonisation, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives. The aim is to improve articles and data on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects based on a series of exhibitions organised in Switzerland in 2024-2025.

The project supports Wikipedians in accessing information they can use as a reference to amend and integrate entries on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects and it offers training opportunities to GLAMs and researchers to learn how to prepare data for Wikipedians and edit articles and other data directly.

The initiative is promoted by the Institute of Design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), with the support of Wikimedia CH and with the involvement and collaboration of ETH Zurich, Landesmuseum Zurich, Ethnographic Museum - University of Zurich and Museum Rietberg.

Join Swiss GLAMs in contributing to decolonise knowledge!

Programme

The English-language guided tours for Wikipedians will be followed by an edit-a-thon session on-site and online. Interested Wikipedians are kindly requested to register on the project's website as places are limited. Admission is free upon registration.

The following guided tours in English for Wikipedians to exhibitions in Zurich are upcoming, kindly supported by the organising venues.

Zurich, Saturday, 18 January, 10 am CET
- ETH Zurich
- "Colonial Traces - Collections in Context"

Zurich, Saturday, 18 January 2025, 2 pm CET
- Landesmuseum Zurich
- "colonial – Switzerland’s Global Entanglements"

Zurich, Sunday, 19 January 2025, 11 am CET
- Ethnographic Museum - University of Zurich
- "Benin Dues. Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures"

Zurich, Sunday, 19 January 2025, 2 pm CET
- Museum Rietberg
- "In Dialogue with Benin. Art, Colonialism and Restitution"

Please note that all events follow the Respectful behavior space policy of Wikimedia CH.

Participants

Please register for each event. Participation is free of charge, but for maximum 15 participants. The guided tours are in English.

Guided tour - ETH Zurich, "Colonial Traces - Collections in Context", Saturday, 18 January, 10 am

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Guided tour - Landesmuseum Zurich, colonial – Switzerland’s Global Entanglements", Saturday, 18 January 2025, 2 pm

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Guided tour - Ethnographic Museum - University of Zurich, "Benin Dues. Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures", Sunday, 19 January 2025, 11 am

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Guided tour - Museum Rietberg, "In Dialogue with Benin. Art, Colonialism and Restitution", Sunday, 19 January 2025, 2 pm

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