We look forward to enquiries on participation in the museum, your own research work on our collection as well as on integrating objects from Leipzig into external special exhibitions.
Our objects as part of your exhibition
We are gladly supporting special exhibitions of other museums and collections by loaning objects from our collection. We ask you to submit any such enquiries at least six months before the desired date of loan so we can process them on time. In addition to your enquiry please let us know whether you require publishable pictures of objects and of which, or if you need further information on the objects. We can only guarantee a loan in due time within the specified time period since our collection is still incompletely digitalised and catalogued.
Please send any such enquiries to our curator Jana Helmbold-Doyé.
You can find a database of our objects with basic information in the collection catalogue of the University of Leipzig.
Get to know the museum as a workplace
We offer mandatory and voluntary internships for pupils as well as students from various disciplines. Please send us your application in written form (via e-mail or mail) stating the desired period, the setting (e.g. mandatory internship for your studies) and, if applicable, certain content requirements. Please add the following documents to your application: Letter of motivation, Curriculum Vitae, significant certificates (if applicable).
Please note that we will ask for a personal meeting before making a firm commitment. Anna Grünberg is available as your contact person.
- Information for school internships: If possible, please add the internship documents you have received from the school to your application. Applications should be sent to us not later than 3 months before the start of the internship.
- Information for student and voluntary internships: You can determine the duration of your internship yourself, but it should be at least 4 to 6 weeks. The application documents should ideally be sent to us 6 months before the desired start of the internship, not later than 4 months prior to the beginning.
The museum as a place of research
We gladly support our colleagues on their research work. Scientific enquiries are usually quickly answered. Larger projects that require a stay on site must be agreed at least 4 months in advance. Please add the following information to your enquiry: a list of the relevant individual objects or groups of objects, the research methods planned, as well as the setting of the research work (e.g. qualification work, scientific project, etc.).
For this, please contact our curator Jana Helmbold-Doyé.
You can find a database of our objects with basic information in the collection catalogue of the University of Leipzig.
As a museum it is our task to preserve, collect, research, exhibit and impart. The standards of museums are defined by the Deutscher Museumsbund (German Museum Association) which operates nationwide. Museums are research facilities and need to concentrate on developing, presenting and making their collections available. They focus on the specific collection objects, their materiality as well as their cultural, artistic and/or scientific significance. Additional needs for clarification in the field of provenance research have been the result of changed legal, international legal or ethical perspectives on past acquisition cases in recent years. The same applies to privately owned objects that can enrich our museum, as their origins will also have to be verified beforehand. If you intend to donate or loan objects to our collection, you will have to be able to provide credible evidence for the artefact’s origin. Our staff members have to carry out numerous tasks which is why we do not perform assessments on currently privately owned cultural assets.
