In the series “Object of the Month” initiated by the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (HZK) together with the collections of the Humboldt-Universität, we go to the various locations of the university, rummage through magazines, closets, exhibition and work spaces, look at sculptures, monuments and buildings, and present particularly interesting and noteworthy “objects” from the Humboldt University collections in a monthly rhythm. The focus is on contexts of origin, use, and provenance, as well as people associated with the objects. The object of the month offers the opportunity to get to know the diversity of the university and to broaden one’s own view of other things.
Contact:
Christina Kuhli, Custodian of the HU
Oliver Zauzig, Collections coordinator
Object of the month: Towns of the Near East as reflected in the Sammlung Historischer Palästinabilder (Collection of Historical Pictures of Palestine)
Object of the month 11/2024 On August 26, 1907, Hugo Gressmann (1877–1927), a professor of Old Testament/Hebrwe Bible at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, writes to his colleague and friend Hermann Gunkel (1862–1932)
Object of the month: Photo collection in the archive of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Object of the month 09/2024 Whether it was the opening of the academic year, the reception of foreign delegations, sporting competitions, conferences or conventions – a university photographer was always
Object of the Month: The Weiterbildungsprogramm-Archiv Berlin/Brandenburg der Abteilung Erwachsenenbildung/Weiterbildung – The creation and development of an active collection of Humboldt-Universität
Object of the Month 06/2024 What learning and educational opportunities are there for adults? What topics do different providers offer as courses, events, seminars and workshops, for example on sustainability, social
Object of the Month: A marble bust becomes a miniature – a 3D project to mark the 200th birthday of physicist Robert Gustav Kirchhoff
Object of the Month 04/2024 A bust of the physicist Robert Gustav Kirchhoff (1824-1887), created in 1888 by the Berlin sculptor Carl Begas, is kept in the stacks of the
Object of the Month: From Invalidenstrasse 110 to Adlershof. A house facade and the morphological model of an ideal crystal
Object of the Month 02/2024 Fig. 1 Crystal general view. Photo: Dr. Holm Kirmse The model (see fig. 1) shows the ideal shape of a crystal. This is a combination
Object of the Month: “Souvenir from Yokohama” A lacquer album in the scientific collection “Holdings of the Mori-Ōgai Memorial Center”
Object of the Month 12/2023Thanks to a significant donation of historical photographs from Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1912), a precious lacquer album has come into the possession of Humboldt-Universität
Object of the Month: A Private Library Moves – the Working and Research Center Private Library Christa and Gerhard Wolf
Object of the Month 11/2023 In May 2023, 6000 books from Christa and Gerhard Wolf’s flat came to Humboldt-Universität. Thanks to a donation in 2015, a unique library of authors is
Object of the Month: Hyperboloid of two sheets of Stoll (No 224)
Object of the Month 10/2023Only a few insiders would immediately recognise the object of October. The model of a Hyperboloid of two sheets is located in Adlershof, more precisely in
Object of the Month: A powerfull piece: Annemirl Bauer, “Männliche Herrlichkeit Gottes” (Male Glory of God), 1988
Object of the Month 09/2023 Accusing, shocking, melancholic – the large-format painting by Annemirl Bauer is expressive. From the eyes of a centrally placed female figure, crouching on a box
Object of the Month: Diagram of the precipitation in Berlin-Dahlem in 2022
Object of the Month 08/2023 For the object of the month August, we have chosen the diagram of the precipitation in Berlin-Dahlem for the year 2022 (Fig. 4), which is
Object of the month: The poet and the dolphin skull
Object of the Month 07/2023The poet Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) is probably familiar to most people as the author of the fantastic tale „The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl” published
Object of the month: Photographic reproduction of the X-ray image of a bound foot
Object of the Month 06/2023Over a period of a thousand years, Chinese girls had their feet bound to shorten them. Europeans looked at this beauty practice with a mixture of
Object of the month: An Indian Tablā (dāyāṃ) in the Berlin Lautarchiv
Object of the Month 04/2023 In addition to its core holdings of audio recordings of prisoners of war from the First World War and the collection of German dialects from
Object of the month: Historical drawing of a new horse stable building
Object of the Month 03/2023 House 9 on the North Campus once served as the equine clinic of the former Prussian Royal Veterinary School, which was one of the leading training
Object of the Month: Lise Meitner Monument by Anna Franziska Schwarzbach
Object of the Month 01/2023 Since 2014, Lise Meitner faces Unter den Linden; on the other side of the cour d’honneur of the main building, Theodor Mommsen and Max Planck