Global Cultural Assembly

Indigenous voices as part of museum work

One of the central concerns of the partners was to establish an embassy at the Humboldt Forum in order to ensure effective forms of co-determination on a permanent basis. The 2022 meeting marked the foundation of the Global Cultural Assembly (GCA). Together with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, both the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst have been engaged in a collective process of participation and co-determination with regard to their international partners.  

GCA and CoMuse

Since the launch of the “Collaborative Museum”, this process has been continued as a joint project in collaboration with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum. The project is designed to bring about long-term structural changes. 
In October 2023, seven members of the GCA circle met again in Berlin and formed a preparatory group, which then organised the next major assembly in 2025. On this occasion, the assembly elected a Reference Group to continue the work together with the Berlin team.

Forms of co-determination

The question of how to implement effective co-determination in concrete terms is currently the subject of negotiations and change processes. The Preparatory Group is also involved in the annual theme “Family Matters” (opening 2025).

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Exhibition hall at the Humboldt Forum