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How the Berlin Natural History Museum is tackling its colonial past
The Naturkundemuseum wants to launch a new international excavation at the site where the Berlin dinosaurs were found in Tanzania.
 Maritta Tkalec, 25.4.2021 - 16:14 Uhr
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Museum für NaturkundeExcavation of a dinosaur find in German East Africa, today Tanzania: Senior warden Boheti bin Amrani uncovers a rib and prepares it to be shipped to Berlin.
Berlin - Who are the rightful owners of the dinosaur remains in the Natural History Museum? Does the Brachiosaurus, the largest reconstructed dinosaur skeleton in the world, really belong in Berlin? After all, the fossils lay buried in the soil of what is now Tanzania for 150 million years. The local population always knew the place was full of giant bones. The German mining engineer Bernhard Sattler, who prospected for mineral resources in Deutsch-Ostafrika (German East Africa) during the colonial period, was by no means ....

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