Ethnologisches Museum

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.

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Past exhibitions

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Museum für Fotografie
The Colonial Eye
Early Portrait Photography in India

20.07.2012 to 21.10.2012

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

Ethnologisches Museum
Native American Modernism
Art from North America

03.03.2012 to 28.10.2012

Christine Levannas

Ethnologisches Museum
Myth of the Golden Triangle. Hill Tribes in South-East Asia

16.12.2011 to 26.09.2016

The image in black and white shows people on a market place in Santiago de Chile
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum

Ethnologisches Museum
South America in Pictures

late November 2011 to late August 2013

Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V. / Eva Häberle

Ethnologisches Museum
This is What We Eat. We Eat Rice.
Hands-on exhibition for children from 4-8 in the JuniorMuseum

19.11.2011 to 10.01.2016

On view is: Flickenmantel eines Derwisches, Iran, Mitte 19. Jh., Sammlung Julius Heinrich Petermann, 1857
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudia Obrock

Ethnologisches Museum
Muslims' Worlds

12.11.2011 to 08.01.2017

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Pieter Hugo

Ethnologisches Museum
Africa in Berlin

04.09.2009 to 08.01.2017

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 / 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

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