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7th International Provenance Research Day on 9 April 2025 at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

26.03.2025

Chinese decorative ridge turret from the Qing dynasty, ornamental pediment: ridge ornament (ridge turret) in the form of a mythical creature with a man standing beside it — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudia Obrocki, I D 45823

Ethnologisches Museum: Chinese Decorative Ridge Turret Restituted to the Descendants of Eduard Fuchs

06.12.2024

Yessie Mosby at the memorial ceremony with members of the Australian Ugaram Le — © SPK/ Felix Zahn/photothek.de

Human Remains from the Collection of the Ethnologisches Museum Repatriated to Australia

05.12.2024

Headpiece for the mask wearer, 21 x 27 x 25 cm, 282 g, inv. no. V A 62645 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudia Obrocki

Ethnologisches Museum Steps Up Collaboration with Columbia

30.10.2024

Men with sharp-edged wooden shields (guzuq in the Masakin language), which are used in stick and shield fighting — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Nachlass (Estate of) Leni Riefenstahl

International Collaboration Project: Researching Leni Riefenstahl’s Photographs of the Nuba

24.10.2024

Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, and H.E. Jorge Alfredo Lemcke Arevalo, Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala, at the handover of a sun stone replica — © SPK / Thomas Koehler/photothek.de

Two Replicas Handed Over to the Museo Comunitarío Yalambojoch in the Presence of the Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala

19.07.2024

Workshop with cooperation partners of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst on the occasion of the opening of the East Wing of the Humboldt Forum — © SPK/photothek/Thomas Trutschel

Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums and Collections in German-speaking Countries: Zurich Declaration 2024 approved

20.06.2024

Ludwig Windstosser, Untitled (control panel, unknown company), detail, 1960 – 1980 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Ludwig Windstosser

Restrictions Due to IT Maintenance Work, 5‒9 June 2024

03.06.2024

Aktenbände aus dem Archiv im Ethnologischen Museum © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Martin Franken — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Martin Franken

Extensive Digitisation of the Historical Archive at the Ethnologisches Museum

15.05.2024

Film screening at the Humboldt Forum — © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Stefanie Loos

Slices of Life: Ethnographic Film Day at the Humboldt Forum on 13 May 2024

07.05.2024

Delegation members at the Ethnologisches Museum’s Mesoamerica Depot in Berlin-Dahlem — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Ute Schüren

Preliminary Meeting for Collaborative Project with Representatives of the Indigenous Chocholtec Community from Oaxaca (Mexico) in Late April 2024

30.04.2024

Exhibition view “Reconnecting With Returned Cultural Belongings“, National Art Gallery of Namibia © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Timo Weißberg — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Timo Weißberg

Exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Namibia Featuring Objects Previously Part of the Ethnologisches Museum’s Collection

11.04.2024

Commemorative head of a Queen Mother (Nigeria) in the exhibition area "Benin Bronzes in Berlin" of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) in the Humboldt Forum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum, ownership transferred to Nigeria on 25 August 2022 / Photo: Alexander Schippel

Expansion of the Ethnologisches Museum’s Benin Exhibition and Symposium in April 2024

05.04.2024

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6th International Provenance Research Day on 10 April 2024 at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

26.03.2024

Members of the Cameroonian Inter-Ministerial Committee in Charge for the Restitution of Cameroonian Cultural Properties Illegaly Exported Abroad visit the exhibition "Colonial Cameroon" at the Ethnologisches Museum in the Humboldt Forum © Gino Giove — © Gino Giove

Restitutions and Sustainable Collaboration: Cameroonian Delegates Visit Berlin

24.01.2024

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