Joachim Baur
Joachim Baur is a historian, curator and museum consultant, based in Berlin (www.die-exponauten.com). Currently he is curating Forum Wissen, a new science museum at Goettingen University (2019), and the permanent exhibition of Museum Friedland at the historic site of the oldest refugee camp in Germany (2016, extension 2020). Other recent projects include an exhibition on Capital by Karl Marx (2017), 19th century globalization (2014) and an open-air exhibition on urban diversity in Berlin (2012). In addition to curating, he teaches courses in museum studies at New York University Berlin and HTW University of Applied Sciences Berlin and lectures on contemporary museum-related issues. Baur holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (University of Tuebingen, 2009) and an M.A. in Modern European History (University of Stuttgart, 2001) and Museum Studies (New York University, 2004). His publications revolve around the history and theory of museums, migration history, representations of multiculturalism and the trans-/nationalization of memory.
Select publications
Monographs
Die Musealisierung der Migration. Einwanderungsmuseen und die Inszenierung der multikulturellen Nation, Bielefeld 2009.
As an editor
(with Lorraine Bluche) Fluchtpunkt Friedland. Über das Grenzdurchgangslager, 1945 bis heute, Göttingen 2017.
Museumsanalyse. Methoden und Konturen eines neuen Forschungsfeldes, Bielefeld 2010.