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    Education & Outreach Culture of Remembrance Oral History Collection Research

    The Mazateca collection at the Ethnologisches Museum comprises around 470 objects that Wilhelm Bauer collected in Mexico in the early 20th century.…

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    Museum Cooperation Education & Outreach Conservation & Restoration Community Engagement

    The Lienzo, a painted cotton cloth of about 16 sqm from the 16th century, recounts, amongst other things, the history of the Coixtlahuaca Valley and…

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    Scientific Cooperation Education & Outreach Collection Research

    The “Traiphum”, book of the “Three Worlds”, is one of the oldest and most beautiful illuminated manuscripts of Thai book art. Made in Thonburi (today…

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    Museum Cooperation Collection Research Provenance Research

    Since May 2026, the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst have a new director: Henrietta Lidchi. Recently arrived in Berlin from…

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    Scientific Cooperation Museum Cooperation Provenance Research

    The collections of the Ethnologisches Museum hold twelve mats, woven from the leaves of the wild date palm. They come from the Lamu Archipelago and…

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    Contemporary Art Education & Outreach Oral History Community Engagement

    Samuel Baah Kortey is a multidisciplinary artist from Ghana whose work traverses the visible expressions that characterise cities, historical…

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