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**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.** © Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Photo: Iris Papadopoulos

**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** © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

**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** © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

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.