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Vishnu in the rotunda of Altes Museum, Installation view
Vishnu in the rotunda of Altes Museum, Installation view © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker
Vishnu, Tamil Nadu (southern India), 8th/9th century AD, ident. no. I 321, on display from 14 June 2017 as a ‘New Neighbour’ in the rotunda of the Altes Museum.
Vishnu, Tamil Nadu (southern India), 8th/9th century AD, ident. no. I 321, on display from 14 June 2017 as a ‘New Neighbour’ in the rotunda of the Altes Museum. © Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Photo: Iris Papadopoulos
A Mayan sculpture as guest at Ägyptisches Museum, Installation view
A Mayan sculpture as guest at Ägyptisches Museum, Installation view © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker
Eagle snake Cuauhcoatl meets King Amenemhet at Neues Museum, Installation view
Eagle snake Cuauhcoatl meets King Amenemhet at Neues Museum, Installation view © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker
Sculpture of the eagle-serpent, Cuauhcoatl, Aztec, 1325–1521, Mexico, ‘New Neighbour’ at the Neues Museum
Sculpture of the eagle-serpent, Cuauhcoatl, Aztec, 1325–1521, Mexico, ‘New Neighbour’ at the Neues Museum © Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / photo: Waltraut Schneider-Schütz
Surya, sun-god from India, guest at Altes Museum, Installation view
Surya, sun-god from India, guest at Altes Museum, Installation view © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker
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New Neighbours. On the Way to Humboldt Forum

14.06.2017 to 30.09.2018
Museumsinsel Berlin

Visitors will still be able to see highlights from the Museum für Asiatische Kunst and the Ethnologisches Museum while the collections are being moved to the Humboldt Forum. On the Way to the Humboldt Forum is the overall title for numerous special exhibitions and presentations taking place at the Kulturforum and the Museumsinsel Berlin. Their shared aim is to initiate dialogue between the SMB’s European and non-European collections.

At the heart of the project is a series entitled New Neighbours, involving over 14 objects from the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst. Conceived as a series of pop-up displays in the Altes Museum and Neues Museum, it explores all sorts of ways of introducing completely different eras, regions, themes and histories to one another. It will give visitors a thematic foretaste of the unique synergy between the Museumsinsel and the Humboldt Forum which will create a multi-perspectival meeting-place for world cultures in the heart of Berlin.

Visitor entrances

Altes Museum
Am Lustgarten
10178 Berlin
Opening hours

Neues Museum
Bodestraße
10178 Berlin
Opening hours

Stone sculpture, cuauhcoatl, Aztec, Central Mexican Highlands, 1350–1521
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudia Obrocki; CC NC-BY-SA

New Neighbours. On the Way to Humboldt Forum: Adlerschlange (Film)

Vishnu, South India (8th–9th century AD) © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, digital reproduction: Jester Blank GbR
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, digital reproduction: Jester Blank GbR

New neighbours. On the way to the Humboldt Forum: Vishnu (Film)

Bodestraße
10178 Berlin

partially wheelchair accessible

U-Bahn: Museumsinsel (U5)
S-Bahn: Friedrichstraße, Hackescher Markt
Tram: Am Kupfergraben, Hackescher Markt
Bus: Staatsoper, Lustgarten, Friedrichstraße

Sun 10:00 - 18:00
Mon closed
Tue 10:00 - 18:00
Wed 10:00 - 18:00
Thu 10:00 - 18:00
Fri 10:00 - 18:00
Sat 10:00 - 18:00

Special opening hours during public holidays
Please note: The Romantic painting collection will not be complete until the end of May 2025 due to various special exhibitions celebrating Friedrich's anniversary. This includes, among others, Caspar David Friedrich's "Monk by the Sea," which will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from the beginning of January to the end of May.

In addition, the second exhibition floor (French Impressionism, etc.) will be closed from May 13 to June 5, 2025, due to the installation of the special exhibition "Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger: Emancipation from Rodin."

Tel 030 - 266 42 42 42 (Mon - Fri, 9 am - 4 pm)
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Related Links

Museum and the City: „Adlerschlange trifft Pharao. Ethnologische Sammlungen auf dem Weg zum Humboldt Forum“ on the blog of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (German only)

SPK Website: Auf gute Nachbarschaft