Art from the Cosmograph

To open the Long Night of Museums, the Kultursommerfestival presents the Stegreif Orchester and N.U. Unruh performing Beating the Drum at the Humboldt Forum. You’ll be able to follow the sound of the Stegreif Orchester as it progresses from Portal 1 of the Humboldt Forum to the Spree terraces and on to Portal 4, where you’ll even have the chance to beat the drum yourself. The event is part of the Kultursommerfestival 2023.

Die Ausstellung im einzig erhaltenen Bereich des Berliner Schlosses bietet einen Rundgang vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Hier finden Sie Mauerreste eines Dominikanerklosters sowie des Berliner Schlosses, die ab 2008 freigelegt wurden. Vermittler*innen stehen Ihnen zur Seite und geben Auskunft zu Hintergrund und Bedeutung des Schlosskellers.

Vermittler*innen stehen Ihnen zur Seite und geben Auskunft zu Hintergrund und Bedeutung dieser einzigartigen Ausstellung.

Gemeinsam BERLIN GLOBAL erleben: Auf der Fläche der Berlin Ausstellung im Humboldt Forum stehen Live-Speaker*innen für spontane Mini-Führungen bereit. Kommen Sie mit den Live-Speaker*innen ins Gespräch über die Stadt Berlin, ihre Geschichte, aktuelle Themen und über die Verflechtungen der Stadt in die Welt.

Lernen Sie die unterschiedlichen Freundeskreise im Humboldt Forum kennen. Informieren Sie sich wie sie die Arbeit der unterschiedlichen Institutionen unterstützen können, um so Einblicke in die Arbeit hinter den Kulissen zu bekommen. Die Freundeskreise präsentieren sich und ihre Arbeit in der Nähe der jeweiligen Ausstellungen.

Fancy a spin through Berlin in a vintage car? Take a trip in a vintage car shuttle on the route between the Deutsches Technikmuseum museum of technology and the Humboldt Forum. Just hop on in Ladestrasse at the Technikmuseum or join up at the Humboldt Forum. The trip is free if you have ticket for the Long Night.

Wie hängen der Klimawandel, die Arbeitsbedingungen in einer Textilfabrik in Bangladesch und das Aussterben von Insekten in der Uckermark zusammen? Die Ausstellung im Humboldt Labor stellt Krisen ökologischer und sozialer Systeme in den Mittelpunkt und verknüpft Objekte aus historischen Sammlungen mit Gegenwartsdebatten und heutiger Forschung. Startzeiten: Von 19:00 bis 23:00 alle 60 MinutenDauer: 30 Minuten

Kurzführung durch das Ethnologische Museum. Startzeiten: Von 19:30 bis 23:30 alle 60 MinutenDauer: 30 Minuten

Kurzführung zu einem Thema/einem Objekt in der Dauerausstellung des Ethnologischen Museums. Startzeiten: Von 19:45 bis 23:45 alle 60 MinutenDauer: 30 Minuten

Kurzführung durch das Museum für Asiatische Kunst. Startzeiten: Von 20:00 bis 23:00 alle 60 MinutenDauer: 30 Minuten

Come with me. I will show you some highlights.Start times: From 8:00 to 11:00 pm every 60 minutesDuration: 30 minutes

Before coming to Berlin, he made a name for himself in Nigeria and Ukraine, where he studied computer technology. Now you can find DJ Jeff at the Humboldt Forum, getting the world up and dancing with Afrobeats, Amapiano, hip hop, RnB and dance hall hits.

Kurzführung mit vertiefenden Informationen zu einem Thema/einem Objekt. Startzeiten: Von 20:15 bis 23:15 alle 60 MinutenDauer: 30 Minuten

Drawing museum exhibits yourself provides a contrast to the quick tour with its overdose of visual and acoustic impressions. To draw something, you need to observe attentively and take your time. Here, you will have the opportunity to take that time and give yourself over entirely to a single exhibit.

Come with me. I will show you some highlights. Start times: From 8:30 to 11:30 pm every 60 minutesDuration: 30 minutes

How do we live with death? What is a good death? What will remain of us? Visitors embark on a tour of the exhibition about the role of Homo Sapiens in the universe. The topic is rendered tangible by multimedia and interactive installations and spatial experiences. Members of different religious communities talk about the way they see the afterlife.

The exhibition is a link between past and present and the starting point for a new chapter in the relationship between the Umoⁿhoⁿ and Berlin. It is a result of the collaboration with teachers and students of the Nebraska Indian Community College, descendants of Francis La Flesche and representatives of the Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha).

On an Open Space of BERLIN GLOBAL, artists Barbara Bernardi, Linda Paganelli and Vincent Voignier explore the phenomenon of gentrification.Through interviews and an immersive photo and video collage, they show the impact of gentrification on residents, the cultural landscape and urban space.

The workshop exhibition Exhibiting.Omissions. Objects from Tanzania and the Colonial Archive questions, remembers, and reconsiders the museum’s objects and their stories: to whom and where did the objects now in the museum’s depot belong? What stories do they have to tell that remain untold or ignored to this day?

For millennia, people and land have been inextricably linked in Canada’s coastal rainforests. An example of this is the special importance cedar trees hold for the First Nations living there: cedars provide the raw material for a wide range of everyday objects and ceremonial objects.

You’re allowed to check in up to 30 kg of free luggage at the airport – one full suitcase for a new life in a new country. But what happens when your things, your language, even your own identity take on different meanings upon arrival? / Havaalanına 30 kg bagajla giriş yapabilirsiniz. Yeni bir ülkede yeni bir yaşam için sadece dolu bir bavul. Peki ya eşyalar, dil, hatta kişinin kimliği vardıklarında birdenbire farklı bir anlam kazanırsa ne olur?

So what does it mean to be a Naga today? The exhibition Naga Land. Voices from Northeast India looks at different aspects of contemporary Naga society and its cultural identity. It brings together the historical Naga collection of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin with contemporary photography, fashion, and visual arts from the region.

Since time immemorial, humans have created objects to which they attributed superhuman powers. Depictions of ancestors, goddesses, and heroes were helpful in overcoming personal or collective crises. Over thousands of years and across continents, a diversity of creativity emerged, which continues to fascinate to this day.

A temporary exhibition entitled Matter(s) of Perspective. A Prelude examines some radical perspectives that expose colonialism as a macrosocial occurrence. The installation is specifically dedicated to the traces left by colonisation in the former German colonial territories and presents interconnections that reach right into the present day.