Coffee With the Curator: What Did German Archaeologists Know in the 1850s?
Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Tickets: $4 +tax, FREE for Museum Members
Coffee With the Curator
Join us for our monthly Coffee With the Curator event at the Museum of World Treasures!
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Event Details
- Date: February 20, 2025
- Time: 9:00 AM
- Location: Museum of World Treasures [Get Directions]
Cost
- Museum Members: Free
- Non-Members: $4 per person plus tax
Attending Information
- Open to all ages
- No need to register; simply walk in!
- Light refreshments and coffee provided.
Talk Summary
This presentation will discuss the transition from archaeology as an amateur practice among learned gentlemen to a more professional practice that delivered new knowledge about the early Middle Ages. The talk will draw on a very detailed and unique excavation diary from 1855 that is held at the Bavarian Museum for Prehistoric Archaeology in Munich, Germany. The presentation will also explain how archaeology museum displays have changed since the nineteenth century.
Speaker Bio
Brent Maner is an associate professor of History at Kansas State University. He’s been in Manhattan since 2002. He received his PhD in History from the University of Illinois, and he has spent lots of time in Germany over the years. He has received research grants from the German Academic Exchange Service and the Fulbright Commission. He is currently working on a research project about perceptions of the Berlin Stock Exchange during in 19th-century and hopes to spend a good portion of the next academic year in Berlin to pursue that project. His earlier work has been about museums and archaeology in Germany. In 2018, he published Germany’s Ancient Pasts: Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700 (University of Chicago Press), and his talk today will draw from that book.