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Humboldt Forum

Berlin, Germany

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  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Humboldt Forum walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

The phone illustration shows The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo. The collection illustration shows examples from other places, not works in the Humboldt Forum.

What the Humboldt Forum collection covers

The Humboldt Forum brings the Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art together with exhibitions about Berlin and science. Its collections span Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania. Ethnological Collections and Asian Art

Boats, sculpture, textiles and decorative arts offer different ways into these histories. The collection presentations also examine where objects came from, how they were collected and the lasting effects of colonialism.

Its collection strengths include Asian art, African material culture, Oceanic collections, and Americas collections.

  • High-sea sailing boat from the island of Luf

    Luf Island makers

    This outrigger boat comes from Luf Island in what is now Papua New Guinea. The museum states that the circumstances of its acquisition on Luf are undocumented.

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  • Standing Buddha

    Unknown Gandharan maker

    Date
    2nd–3rd century

    This standing figure represents the Buddha in the Gandharan tradition. The museum record places it in the second or third century.

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  • Miraculous Buddha

    Unknown Gandharan maker

    Date
    2nd–3rd century

    This Buddha belongs to the Museum of Asian Art's Gandharan collection. King Amanullah Khan gave it to the German government in 1928.

    Read the museum record

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

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Private-use photography is permitted in the Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art without flash, tripods or selfie sticks, subject to object-specific restrictions; photography is prohibited in BERLIN GLOBAL and the Humboldt Lab. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Humboldt Forum photography policy

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