Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection
From 8 May 2026 in the Deutsches Historisches Museum
8 May 2026 to 31 October 2027

Press event “Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection”
From 8 May 2026 in the Deutsches Historisches Museum
Hounskull, Northern Italy, ca. 1360, Iron, brass
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Welcome beaker of the Oettingen counts, the so-called Oettingen Welcome, Southern Germany, engravings 1548–1650, Glass, colourless, engraved; silver, gold-plated and engraved
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Board game box for nine men’s morris, chess, and tric trac, formerly in possession of Anne of Denmark, dated “5. Aprilis 1607”, amber, ivory, metal foil, ebony, silver
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Engraved ostrich egg with motifs from Jan Hyugen van Linschoten’s Itinerario, Netherlands, ca. 1600/1620, Ostrich egg, notched, engraved, blackened
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Engraved ostrich egg with motifs from Jan Hyugen van Linschoten’s Itinerario, Netherlands, ca. 1600/1620, Ostrich egg, notched, engraved, blackened
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Engraved ostrich egg with motifs from Jan Hyugen van Linschoten’s Itinerario, Netherlands, ca. 1600/1620, Ostrich egg, notched, engraved, blackened
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Journeymen of the Association of Upright Foreign and Domestic Journeymen Carpenters and Slaters and construction workers on the roof truss of a building, unknown studio, dated “October 1926”, baryta paper, black-and-white print
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Transverse cutting head (shearer head) for a roadheader, Voestalpine AG, Austria, 2003/2016, Steel, cast and bolted
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Bunk bed for refugees and two privacy boxes, Two wooden Ikea beds, model Fjellse, Kassel, 2015, Pinewood, inscribed, painted
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