Dr. Katharina Süberkrüb

"Shipping not only moves people and goods across the world‘s oceans; it has also shaped the formation of many different museum collections. At the DSM, the maritime contexts of collecting are particularly tangible: the collection ranges from small sailors‘ souvenirs from distant lands to large ships that tell stories of both local history and globalisation. For me, this diversity makes the DSM a special place where museum work and research come together and where I can work directly with collections. Here, I have found a research environment within an interdisciplinary team, in which we explore the stories of the collection using a variety of methods and together with different actors, telling them in many voices."

Dr. Katharina Süberkrüb, Research Associate, Provenance and Collections Research

About the Person

Dr. Katharina Süberkrüb is an East Asian studies scholar and an expert in transcultural provenance research. She is particularly interested in how digital accessibility and linked collection data can open up new perspectives for provenance and collection research. She has worked in international exhibition teams and collaborative research projects at the Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK) and at the University of Hamburg. In her dissertation, she linked collection data from ten European museums, examining the colonial contexts of acquisition and the multifaceted production of knowledge about Korea.