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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Lime vessel as a human figure, Colombia, 500-700 AD
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, digital reproduction: Philipp Jester | Jens Blank

Museumsinsel Berlin
Humboldt Forum Highlights

23.10.2018 to 29.09.2019

Keyvisual "It’s Our Construction Site Too! 176 Children Take Over the Humboldt Forum"
© SHF / Illustration: Jens Bonnke

Humboldt-Box
It’s Our Construction Site Too!
176 Children Take Over the Humboldt Forum

14.10.2018 to 16.12.2018

[sound] Listening to the World
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss

Humboldt-Box
[sound] Listening to the World

22.03.2018 to 16.09.2018

„Working With Artefacts 3057“
gaehtgens.hirsch

Ethnologisches Museum
Packing up and Repackaging:
DAHLEMMA – Perspectives Galore. An installation by gaehtgens.hirsch

25.11.2017 to 14.01.2018

Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode Museum, exhibition view
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Bode-Museum
Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode-Museum

27.10.2017 to 24.11.2019

Vishnu in the rotunda of Altes Museum, Installation view
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Museumsinsel Berlin
New Neighbours. On the Way to Humboldt Forum

14.06.2017 to 30.09.2018