Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

This guide to the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin traces the excavation behind its giant dinosaur skeleton, begun in 1906 in what is now Tanzania, in the wake of a brutally crushed rebellion and the German empire's claim on the emptied land. From 1909 to 1913, hundreds of African laborers carved two hundred thirty tonnes of bone from the red earth by hand and hauled it to the coast for shipment to Berlin. It asks why only twenty-three of their names survive today, and what museum scientists spent decades piecing back together.