Exhibition:

Exhibition in the Lobby of the Historicum Library:
"Eine deutsche (?) Expedition nach Maluku“

29 October 2026 -10 January 2027
Mo - Fr 8 am - 10 pm, Saturday & Sunday 10 am - 8 pm

Schellingstraße 12
80799 Munich

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Exhibition Opening:

Thurdsay, Oct 29, 2026 6 pm at Historicum

Introduction: Luisa Marten-Paschall and Lorenz Ullmann (curatorial team)
Guest Lecture: Tamara Soukotta, International Institute of Social Studies,
Erasmus University Rotterdam

From 1910 to 1912, the “Second Freiburg Moluccas Expedition” traveled through the Dutch-colonized Maluku Islands (present-day Indonesia). The estate of ornithologist Erwin Stresemann, held in the LMU University Archives, documents this journey through diaries, letters, photographs, and artifacts. The exhibition illustrates how research and collecting took place during the expedition, the colonial context in which this occurred, and who supported the expedition on the ground—most notably Markus Mailopu from Seram. It also explores what the expedition means to us today.

The exhibition is a joint project of the LMU Munich University Library and the research project “Markus Mailopu and the II. Freiburg Moluccan Expedition” at the Institute of Ethnology at LMU Munich.

With the kind support
of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.