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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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© Arbeitskreis der Provenienzforschung e. V.

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

26.03.2025

Eckart Muthesius, View oft the River Boat planned fort he Maharaja of Indore, ca. 1934, watercolour and graphite on paper — © Shubha & Prahlad Bubbar Collection

Museum für Asiatische Kunst and Exhibition „Eckart Muthesius and Manik Bagh“ on Tour in India

14.10.2024

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

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

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

© Arbeitskreis der Provenienzforschung e.V.

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

26.03.2024

Pheromon trap for common clothes moth — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Rathgen-Forschungslabor / Bill Landsberger

5th International Conference on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Cultural Heritage in Berlin from 18 to 20 September 2024

25.01.2024

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

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

Key visual for the Long Night of Museums on 26 August 2023 — © Lange Nacht der Museen

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Joins the Long Night of Museums on 26 August 2023

04.08.2023

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

From 25 to 27 April 2023, a conference was held at the Musée des Civilisations Noires in Dakar, Senegal. © Elimane Fall — © Elimane Fall

Conference in Dakar: Towards a Network of African and European Museums

28.04.2023

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