• Altar figure, Madonna, the goddess of the sea Yemanjá, ceramics, colour, collected by Jane de Hohenstein and Mona Suhrbier, 2008, Collection Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel 2019
  • Ancestor figure, Korwar, Geelving Bay, northwest coast of New Guinea, purchased by art trade Aaldering, 1941, Collection Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel 2019
  • Wood sculpture, unknown artist, Angola, collected by Fritz Richter and officer Moerschell, 1892-96, Collection Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel 2019
  • Part of an ancestor altar, tavu, Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia, collected by Wilhelm Müller-Wismar, 1913-1914, Collection Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel 2019
  • Milli Bau’s VW camper with Mount Ararat in the background, eastern Anatolia, Turkey, slide. Photo: Milli Bau 1956

EXHIBITION

“WORLDS IN MOTION. Narrating Migration”
Starting from its own collections, the Weltkulturen Museum raises associative questions highlighting how the world’s diversity of cultures has always existed in a process of exchange.
  • Exhibition view POSTED! at the Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel 2019
  • Exhibition view POSTED! at the Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel 2019
  • Exhibition view POSTED! at the Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel 2019
  • Exhibition view POSTED! at the Weltkulturen Museum with a poster from the Oglala Lakota Tribe, USA, 1970s, Collection Christian Feest. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel 2019
  • Poster, United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, ND, USA 2018

EXHIBITION

POSTED! Reflections of Native North America
Approximately 100 posters from the 1970s to today explore specific aspects of the life of indigenous peoples between the Artic and the south of the USA.

NEW PUBLICATION

“Bought. Collected. Looted? How things came into the museum”
Together with the Historisches Museum, the Museum Angewandte Kunst an the Jüdisches Museum

WHAT DO I SEE?

About the wood sculpture on the poster of the exhibition “WORLDS IN MOTION. Narrating Migration”

THE HEIDELBERG STATEMENT

“Decolonising requires dialogue, expertise and support”