Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Video Series and Films

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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Bust of Queen Nefertiti — **Subscribe to the YouTube channel of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin!**

Video Series: Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst at the Humboldt Forum

Video Series and Films from the Humboldt Forum

Exhibitions of the Collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the Humboldt Forum

Han Jeongrae, Porträt des Gelehrten Im Mae (1711 – 1779), Detail, 1777, Tusche und Farbe auf Seide — © National Museum of Korea

Ari-Arirang | Korea: Germany’s Enduring Fascination with the Hermit Kingdom

The totem pole being brought into the Humboldt Forum via a balcony. — © Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Stefan Müchler

Installation of a house pole of the Haida

Stone sculpture, cuauhcoatl, Aztec, Central Mexican Highlands, 1350–1521 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudia Obrocki; CC NC-BY-SA

New Neighbours. On the Way to Humboldt Forum: Adlerschlange

Films About the Collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the Humboldt Forum

North façade of the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace — © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel

Backstories | On the way to the Humboldt Forum

Exhibition view of the Ethnologisches Museum’s module “Art from Oceania” at the Humboldt Forum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel

Behind the Scenes: Relocation at the Ethnological Museum

Inclusive listening station with early recordings from the phonogram archive of the Ethnologisches Museum — © SHF / David von Becker

Behind the Scenes: Phonogramm Archive

Research: Collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the Humboldt Forum

Alice Mestriner und Ahad Moslemi — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum und Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Pierre Adenis

Ahad Moslemi and Alice Mestriner: Paradeisos. Layers of memory

Symposium Exhibiting Difficult Histories: Jamie Dau — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum

Symposium “Exhibiting Difficult Histories: Benin Objects and their Potential for New Forms of Representation“: Wrap-up

Prof. Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Family Professor für race relations und Professor für Soziologie und Africana Studies an der University of Pennsylvania — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum

Symposium “Exhibiting Difficult Histories“: Colonial, Neocolonial, & Decolonial Projects. African Material Culture

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