The Collaborative Museum: “Gegen die Gewohnheit" (Going Against the Grain) – New Forms of Collaboration
From January 2023 to December 2025, the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum) try out new forms of international collaboration in the project “Das Kollaborative Museum” (The Collaborative Museum), or CoMuse for short, while curating exhibitions, researching collections, designing education programmes, engaging in artistic interventions, and implementing conservation and restoration.
Anna Schäfers, who works on the project, and Katharina Erben, a freelance cultural editor, introduce various sub-projects that are part of CoMuse. They talk with representatives of Indigenous peoples, international partners and fellows, people from Berlin’s pluralistic urban society and the museum staff who collaborate with them all, including curators, art educators, and conservator-restorers.
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PodcastAudiovisual Methodolgies Oral History Community Engagement
#6 A Slice of Life
Curator Gina Knapp has been working at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 2022, but has been cooperating with the people of the village of…
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PodcastUrban Society Oral History
#5 Aspects of Islam
The exhibition room “Aspects of Islam” is located on the 3rd floor of the Humboldt Forum in the exhibitions of the Ethnologisches Museum. Islam is a…
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PodcastCulture of Remembrance Conservation & Restauration Community Engagement
#4 The Gungervaa – a Mongolian shrine
In the collection of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, there is a Mongolian wooden shrine with various objects venerated in Buddhism. It came to…
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PodcastUrban Society Education & Outreach
#3 Ukrainian Saturdays and Sundays in the Humboldt Forum
After Russia’s attack on Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many people fled Ukraine, including to Germany. In 2022, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin awarded…
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PodcastCollection Research Community Engagement Indigenous Agency
#2 Against the current
Francis La Flesche was an Umonhon (also known as Omaha) and Indigenous ethnologist. Between 1894 and 1898, he collected cultural belongings of his own…
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PodcastUrban Society Community Engagement
#1 The Global Cultural Assembly
In September 2022, the Humboldt Forum in Berlin opened the last parts of its permanent exhibitions. More than 80 international guests attended a…