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Current exhibitions

He Chongyue, A Billion To One, 2007, Private Collection Zhang, Berlin — Photo: Tzulia Angos

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All Under Heaven
Harmony in Family and State

28.11.2025 to 25.05.2026

Leonard Suryajaya, Mom's Heaven, detail, 2025 — © Leonard Suryajaya

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Nothing As Our Ground

28.11.2025 to 03.08.2026

Meryl McMaster, Time's Gravity, detail — © Meryl McMaster, Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Bulger Gallery and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain

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Making Kin

28.11.2025 to 03.08.2026

Nlabephee Kefas Othaniel (rechts) und Pa Kanawa Musa (links) während einer Recording Session in Kwangkah village of Dza — © Hammanson Sule (Fotograf)

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Being Related
Shared Language, Shared Knowledge?

03.10.2025 until further notice

End of the Berlin scroll: The Paravarta monastery, detail — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Jürgen Liepe

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The Legend of Prince Vishvantara: Boundless Generosity

24.09.2025 until further notice

Wen Congjian (1574 – 1648), The boat ride to the Red Cliff, Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644), album leaf — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

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Wen Zhengming & Co.
The Concept of jia (Family) in Painting in the Ming Dynasty

17.09.2025 to 16.03.2026

Leaf in Sanskrit, China, Xinjiang, Kizil — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Iris Papadopoulos

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Language Families

September 2025 to mid 2026

Manichäische Electae, Detail, China, Xinjiang, Kocho, 10. Jh., Seide mit Farben — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Thomas Arens

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Family and Religion

August 2025 to mid 2026

Exterior view of the cabinet prior to restoration — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Walter Borgers

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Conservation in Dialogue
A Glimpse Behind the Scene

24.05.2025 to 01.06.2026

George Nuku in the Oceania exhibition of the Ethnologisches Museum at the Humboldt Forum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Pierre Adenis

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Manatunga – Artistic Interventions by George Nuku

18.05.2025 to 31.12.2025

Exhibition view — © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel

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Histories of Tanzania

29.11.2024 until further notice

Portrait of prince Corgiyamz‘an (wartime loss), Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), 1776, detail, original painting: hanging scroll, reproduction from glass plate — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum

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The Ziguangge: Hall of Purple Splendor
Event Venue, Heroes’ Gallery and Theatre of War

28.08.2024 to 31.08.2026

Buddha (Pakistan, 2--3. century) in the module "Buddhist Art in South Asia. Stupas, Buddhas,
Bodhisattvas" of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel

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Ethnological Collections and Asian Art

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