iThe Humboldt Forum occupies the reconstructed Berlin Palace on Schlossplatz, opened in stages between 2020 and 2022. Its 2nd and 3rd floors hold the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art, around 20,000 objects that range from the Sanchi Gate and the Turfan cave paintings to a Japanese tea house, presented with attention to provenance and colonial history. The 1st floor houses the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition and the free Humboldt Lab, while free displays across the building trace 800 years of the site's history, from the palace cellars to the Palace of the Republic.

Over 10,000 Tanzanian objects from the Ethnologisches Museum shown alongside Tanzanian curators' and artists' perspectives on German and British colonial rule.
Three large interventions by Māori artist George Nuku in two rooms of the Oceania galleries, made in polystyrene and Plexiglas during his Collaborative Museum fellowships.

A look at the hidden work of museum conservators, through restored objects such as Canadian crest poles, a Qing lacquer cabinet and a Mongolian shrine.

Video installation on endangered languages and family, with community members documenting their languages, made with the Endangered Languages Archive.

Free show in the Humboldt Lab pairing Berlin University Alliance water research with artistic takes on water and the climate crisis.

Feminist voices on war and gardens: art, photography and interviews on women's solidarity across borders and the healing power of community gardens.

Young Visions from Neukölln: eleven young people on today's injustices and a fairer future. Visitors can take a seat on the throne. In BERLIN GLOBAL.

Mirae kh Rhee asks how objects reached their places in collections and who collects and why, in a cabinet-of-curiosities project from a transnational feminist, decolonial view.
Netta Weiser's first sound exhibition in Berlin, in the Listening Space: 1930s wax cylinder recordings from Siwa, Egypt, by Brigitte Schiffer, reworked through a queer-diasporic lens.

Marks 100 years of the Society for East Asian Art with museum holdings and loans, including an 18th-century Japanese Buddhist painting.

Marks 120 years of the East Asian Art Collection with the fisherman motif in Chinese painting, a symbol of escape from a turbulent world.

Twenty artworks from Brazil, Colombia and Chile show water as a source of knowledge and spirituality and as a ground of environmental conflict, made with Indigenous and traditional communities.

A film and research project by Deepak Tolange on the copper-gilded Chaturmukh Shiva Linga kosh in Berlin's Asian art collection and the loss of Nepal's cultural assets.

4,000 square metres on how Berlin and the world shape each other, told through seven rooms: Revolution, Free Space, Boundaries, Entertainment, War, Fashion, Interconnection.

Free walk through the archaeological remains of a medieval monastery and the original palace foundations beneath the building.

36 objects placed throughout the building in unconventional settings, each recalling a moment from the site's history.

Free displays covering 800 years of Schlossplatz, from medieval cellars and palace sculptures to the Palace of the Republic, with original objects and media stations.

Free full-scale replica of the East Gate of the Great Stupa of Sanchi, a UNESCO World Heritage site in India, installed outside on the Lustgarten side.

Free display on Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt's lives, curiosity and cosmopolitan worldview, in the ground-floor stairwell hall.

Around 20,000 objects from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania across two floors, from the Sanchi Gate and Turfan cave art to a Japanese tea house.
Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin, Germany
Nearest station: U Museumsinsel (U5), S Hackescher Markt and S+U Alexanderplatz
Show on map| Mon | 10:30–18:30 |
| Tue | Closed |
| Wed | 10:30–18:30 |
| Thu | 10:30–18:30 |
| Fri | 10:30–18:30 |
| SatToday | 10:30–18:30 |
| Sun | 10:30–18:30 |
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