Claudia Augustat is an anthropologist and since 2004 curator for South American Collections at the Weltmuseum Wien in Austria. Her research focuses on collections from the Amazon and Tierra del Fuego, material culture and cultural memory, on collaborative curatorship and the decolonization of museum praxis. She is head of the EU co-founded Creative Europe Project TAKING CARE. Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Space of Care.
