Back to Berlin. Dr Dietmar J. Ponert on an extensive bestowal from a family estate

The blog series on the collection work of the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM) deals with core questions such as the decision for or against the acquisition of certain objects, the different ways in which they are found and acquired, the changing research questions posed by the objects in the collections, the provenance and origin of the objects, and many other aspects. At the end of 2023 the extensive estate of the Berlin family Bornitz became part of the Collection of Applied Art of the DHM as a private bestowal from Dr Dietmar J. Ponert, former art historian who worked at the Berlin Museum (now: Stadtmuseum Berlin). Ponert spoke about it with Dr Wolfgang Cortjaens.