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  1. New Year Gets Underway with a Major Logistical Effort (17.12.2020)

    Although the Humboldt Forum had only a digital opening yesterday evening in view of the coronavirus pandemic, work is nevertheless proceeding at full steam in the museums. Toralf Gabsch, chief restorer at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum) and responsible for the move of the Ethnolog

  2. A wooden ceiling that seems to float (23.02.2021)

    A section of wooden ceiling has now been mounted in the Domed Hall, where objects from the Silk Road region will be shown, part of the outstanding collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Chief restorer Toralf Gabsch explains the background. What is special a

  3. Sword Bearers Under a Dome (02.09.2020)

    It has taken three separate shipments to bring the original wall paintings from Dahlem to the Humboldt Forum, where over the next few months they will be brought together in a partial reconstruction of the Cave of the Sixteen Sword Bearers – the first time that they can be seen as a unified composit

  4. Korean Cultural Center in Germany to support Museum für Asiatische Kunst (16.12.2021)

    The Korean Cultural Center in Germany and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz have signed an agreement that includes funding for a curator's position. The focus lies on research into the Korean collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The funds will go to

  5. “If you have findings, then you have to act on them.” (12.02.2018)

    On February 12, 2018, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, talked to the Tagesspiegel about the Humboldt Forum, ways of dealing with objects from the colonial era, and provenance research. The Humboldt Forum is due to open at the end of 2019. It will enable the col

  6. 514 Berlin Benin bronzes return to Nigerian ownership (25.08.2022)

    The "Benin bronzes" officially belong to Nigeria again. About a third of the transferred objects will remain on loan in Berlin and will be exhibited in the Humboldt Forum. On 25 august 2022, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director Ge

  7. Michael Eissenhauer: “Comprehending the World in its Entirety “ (21.11.2017)

    On 25 November 2017 admission is free on the Museumsinsel and at the Kulturforum for the Activities Day “On the Way to the Humboldt Forum“. We spoke with Michael Eissenhauer, Director-General of the Staatliche Museen, about the upcoming convergence of cultures on show for free on 25 November as a fo

  8. Theo Eshetu and the Dahlem Museums on documenta14 (14.08.2017)

    Video artist Theo Eshetu has been following the move of the Dahlem museums into the Humboldt-Forum for a documentary film he is making. At documenta 14, he is showing Atlas Fractured, an expansive installation that projects video onto a banner which originally hung over the entrance to the Dahlem mu

  9. Benin Bronzes: talks with the Nigerian delegation in Berlin (08.07.2021)

    On July 7, the guests toured the Humboldt Forum and on the next day they visited the storage facility in Dahlem containing objects from Benin. On a visit to Berlin, the Nigerian partners and Sir David Adjaye, the architect of the Edo State Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) being built in Benin Cit

  10. How Can Knowledge Infrastructures Be Decolonized? Epistemic Dialogs at the IAI (26.09.2022)

    New perspectives on knowledge circulation and library infrastructure were discussed at international workshops held by Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America) at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. From September 12 to 16, 2022, two separate but related workshops