This year's network meeting of the Gesellschaft für Universitätssammlungen e. V. (GfU) in Bonn provided a forum for the participating colleagues from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to exchange experiences, ideas, and practical examples on analog and digital moves of university museums and collections. The collection network of the University of Stuttgart was represented by Katharina Wilke (University Library, Competence Center Collections).
Objects from university collections have been and continue to be moved frequently: they are used in teaching, displayed in exhibitions, and moved from their place of storage to the corresponding workplaces for research purposes and examined there. In addition to these movement processes, however, other, costly, sometimes suddenly necessary movements of entire collections and museums also take place - moves that occur due to repair, renovation, and reconstruction measures, or because collections are dissolved, merged, and partially abandoned. The network meeting in Bonn offered all participants a platform for collegial practice-based and open exchange about the challenges and opportunities of collection movements.