Anita Hermannstädter (she/her)

A.Hermannstaedter@mfn.berlin+49 0 30 889 140 - 4978

Contact Meta Informationen

As head of the “Research and Innovation” department, I am responsible for the strategic development and further development of collection-related research in the “Future of the Collection” research area. 

As co-director of the Center for Humanities of Nature, I develop interdisciplinary and international research and knowledge transfer projects on the history of the collections. 

I am part of the research areas and working groups:
Humanities of Nature

Project(s)

Vita

  • Since 2026: Head of the newly founded “Research and Innovation” department in the FB Future of the Collection
  • Since 2012: Co-director of the “Center for Humanities of Nature” (formerly PAN - Perspectives on Nature) 
  • Since 2022: Board member ICOM NATHIST 
  • Curator in the program team of the African-European exchange program "TheMuseumsLab" (2022-2024) 
  • Aluma of the 2021 program - Deputy head of the DFG research project "The Window on Nature and Art. A historical-critical review of the Brandenburg-Prussian Kunstkammer" (2018-2022) 
  • Coordinator of the Action Plan I and II of the Leibniz Research Museums at the MfN (2018-2022) 
  • Curator in the program team "The Global Summit of Research Museums" (2018 / 2022) 
  • Management of the model project “Art/Nature. Artistic Interventions in the Museum of Natural History” in cooperation with the Federal Cultural Foundation (2014-2018) 
  • Acting Head of the Historical Office / Museum Archives (2014-2016) 
  • Co-leadership of the BMBF project “Knowledge Things” (2013-2015)

Further information

As a board member of ICOM NATHIST and representative at ICOM Germany as well as in the Natural Science Museums section of the German Museum Association, I am committed to the networking and internationalization of the Museum of Natural History in the museum sector.

Publications

Korun, M., Quaisser, C., Vasilyeva, Z., Dietermann, B., Kühne, N., Hermannstädter, A., Heumann, I., Kaiser, K. (2025). Internationale Kooperationen als leitende Methode. In Umgang mit kolonialen Objekten der Naturkunde. Empfehlungen – Forschung – Reflexionen (1. Auflage, 256). Dresden: Sandstein Kultur. URL: https://www.sandstein-kultur.de/shop/umgang-mit-kolonialen-objekten-der-naturkunde

Berger, F., Hermannstädter, A., Schuster, F. (2025). Sammlungsobjekte als Rohdaten – Wie viel Offenheit leisten wir uns?. Book of abstracts, p. 29. URL: https://sammlungsportal.bua-dns.de/assets/01fc3694-6a85-44a4-938d-910746397738#02_BoA_A5.indd%3A.3300%3A201Open Access

Stört, D., Hermannstädter, A., Schuster, F. (2023). Partizipative Transkriptionsprojekte in Museen, Archiven und Bibliotheken [Dataset]. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7479/SZM4-FS62Open Access

Bagh, T., Fang, P., Hammond, G., Hermannstädter, A., Jensen, J.T., Linna, R., Simpson, A., Soubiran, S., Bevilaqua, D.V., Vitelli, G., Wolenitz, D., Ke, Z. (2025). Editorial: The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities (PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL). University Museums and Collections Journal, 17(2), 80-83. URL: http://umac.icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/UMACj-17-2-2025-web.pdfOpen Access

Hoffmann, J., Schuster, F., Berger, F., Glöckler, F., Petersen, M., Tata, N., Herrmann, E., Hoffmann, A., Quaisser, C., Rietschel, S., Korun, M., Mützel, C., Kaiser, K., Hermannstädter, A., Kilbourne, B., Madruga, C., Strohmann, V., Abd el Gawad, H.H., Adejuwon, A.M., Antonites, A., Arfvidsson, H., Asino, W.N., Coly, P.A., Coulson, I., Dao, S.C., Dau, J., Endter, S., Funke, B., Gallé, L., Gawkowski, J.J., Hassan, N., Henning, P., Huber, A.K., Inyangete, E.M., Iyumva, M.R., Kalumne, A.S., Kapalamula, M., Karim, E.I.A., Karro, P., Kesler, M.C., Keurmeur, N.L.M.D., Khaled Morsi, N., Kuatche Fowo, B.C., Muchefa, L., Lovegrove Pereira, S., Lowe, M.C., Makongo Nsobley, Y.J., Moustafa Ahmed, N., Nafula, L.R., Ngenzi, V., Ngoma, K.T., Nobah, S., Owusu, P., Oyeniran, T.A., Rakotamanana, H.F., Rüter, J., Sagiya, M.E., Schief, J.V., Schwere, R., Abdrabo Abdelwahab, S., Shallangwa, Z.M., Šlepikaitė, S., Ssebuyungo, C., Stumpfe, W., Thobejane, M., Umuhoza, C., Walawala, B.M., Wohlfarth, S., Yonga, S., Ysebaert, S.A.O., Zindel, Y.B.M. (2023). TheMuseumsLab Digitization Workshop 2022. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7479/f0gw-7403Open Access

Kühne, N., Gallé, L., Moldrzyk, U., Kreft, S., Dietermann, B., Faber, A., Moormann, A., Hinz, S., Kaiser, K., Heumann, I., Hermannstädter, A., Bilder von: Wolff, E. (2025). 1.4 Die Kolonialgeschichte der Naturkunde ausstellen und vermitteln. In Kaiser, K., Heumann, I. (Hrsg.), Umgang mit kolonialen Objekten der Naturkunde: Empfehlungen, Objekte, Reflexionen (1. Auflage, 82-93). Dresden: Sandstein Kultur. URL: https://www.sandstein-kultur.de/shop/umgang-mit-kolonialen-objekten-der-naturkunde