Please note: From Monday, 5 May up to and including Wednesday, 7 May and from Monday, 12 May up to and including Friday, 16 May 2025, the exhibition areas of the Ethnologisches Museum on the 2nd floor of the Humboldt Forum will be closed due to maintenance work. The exhibition areas will be open from Thursday, 8 May up to and including Sunday, 11 May 2025.

Past exhibitions

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Martin Franken; CC NC-BY-SA

Ethnologisches Museum
Art from Africa

27.08.2005 to 08.01.2017

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum

Ethnologisches Museum
Australia through the eye of the camera
Selected photos of Charles Kerry (1858-1928) and John W. Lindt (1845-1926)

29.10.2004 to 2011

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Dietrich Graf; CC NC-BY-SA

Ethnologisches Museum
South Sea. Collection Melanesia and Australia

18.06.2004 to 10.01.2016

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudia Obrocki; CC NC-BY-SA

Ethnologisches Museum
South Sea
Polynesian and Micronesian Collection and the Gallery of Contemporary Art

01.10.2001 to 10.01.2016

Christoph Hönig
On the way in the Sahara
Staatliche Museeen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum/ Christoph Hönig

Ethnologisches Museum
Off through the desert!

05.04.2001 to 19.04.2009

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Dietrich Graf; CC NC-BY-SA

Ethnologisches Museum
North American Indians. From Myth to Modern

01.01.2001 to 10.01.2016

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Martin Franken; CC NC-BY-SA

Ethnologisches Museum
American Archaeology

26.11.1999 to 08.01.2017