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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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

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

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

Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Königgrätzer Straße, at the corner of Prinz-Albrecht-Straße, 1886.
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum

The Ethnologisches Museum Celebrates Its 150th Anniversary

27.12.2023

Visitors in the foyer of the Hamburger Bahnhof
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Achim Kleuker

Higher Admission Prices for Museums from 15 January 2024

13.12.2023

The Ayabás Women's Choir of Berlin in the Mesoamerica exhibition of the Ethnologisches Museum
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Stefanie Loos

Diversity of Voices – Choir concerts at the Humboldt Forum on 1 & 2 July 2023

27.06.2023

The wooden masks being prepared for transportation by conservator-restorer Kai-Patricia Engelhardt
© SPK / Foto: Xander Heinl/photothek.de

Restitution of Kogi Masks from the Ethnologisches Museum

19.06.2023