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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

Participants at the dialogue meeting in Stuttgart
© Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Foto: Dominik Drasdow

Restitutions and Sustainable Collaboration: Cameroon and Germany in Dialogue

19.01.2024

[Translate to english:] Tagung zu Spuren des „Boxerkrieges“ in deutschen Museumssammlungen
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Zentralarchiv / Photo: Qiaoli Job Zheng

Boxerloot Conference on 22 and 23 February 2024 in Munich

11.01.2024

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

Der Boxer-Aufstand in China. Die Einnahme von Tientsin im Juli 1900, Bilderbogen Nr. 1790, Detail, nach 1900
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Ute Franz-Scarciglia

Call for Papers: Workshop on the Traces of the “Boxer Rebellion” in German Museum Collections on 22 and 23 February 2024

24.08.2023

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

View of the excavation at Sam’al/Zincirli (Turkey )
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Expeditionsfoto: Felix von Luschan

New Approaches to Establishing the Provenance of Archaeological Collections

16.05.2023

View of the Neues Museum
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Return of Human Remains and Burial Objects to Hawaiʻi

12.04.2023