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Off to the Humboldt Forum: Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art present themselves at the Open Construction Site Day this weekend
Press release from 06/09/2016
A palace without an emperor, the flaming Buddha, a mysterious totem pole - stories like these will be told at the Humboldt Forum in future. This coming weekend, the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin will once again take visitors on a journey into the fascinating cosmos of world cultures at the Open Building Site Day. Together with the other actors of the Humboldt Forum, their curators will provide insights into their themes, workshops and exhibition ideas in the "Speakers' Corner". In addition, a sound installation transports visitors to the soundscape of Persian-Islamic gardens and they can have their photo taken at a "selfie station" with high-quality replicas of museum artefacts.
"I am extremely pleased that, together with all the institutions involved in the Humboldt Forum, we have been able to put together a programme of events that sheds light on practically all facets of this cultural project and arouses great anticipation for Berlin's new cultural centre," says Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and member of the Humboldt Forum's founding directorship.
In the Speakers' Corner, outstanding objects from the Dahlem collections and their stories will be presented in over 30 short talks. Jonathan Fine, Africa curator at the Ethnological Museum, will talk about a tobacco pipe dedicated to the emperor, while Klaas Ruitenbeek, Director of the Museum of Asian Art, will present the future staging of Chinese court art in the Berlin Palace by Pritzker Prize winner Wang Shu. The programme will be rounded off by two film screenings and discussions with the respective directors. In "Fernglück", Shaheen Dill-Riaz accompanies five young Germans to his home country of Bangladesh, and "HMONG sein. Encounters with a Family" portrays the Laotian Vang family, who fled the civil war and found a new home in the Swabian Alb.
Open Construction Site Days at the Humboldt Forum on 11/12 June, 10 am to 6 pm (last admission 5 pm). Admission free. Speaker's Corner between 11 am and 5 pm on the small stage on the 1st floor. "Gardens of the senses - the sound of the Taj Mahal" and "Hands on" photo station also on the 1st floor.
