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Events and Workshops

The Weltkulturen Museum offers various events and workshops for young people and adults.

The workshops mentioned here can only be booked as a group. Please contact .


  1. Workshop based on current exhibitions

    The Power of Maps
    Who creates maps? And what effects can maps have on us? In this workshop we will look at various (Non)-European mappings from the past until the present and question them about the stories and world views that are imbedded in them.
    Duration: 2 hours


  2. Workshop with visit to the storage facilities

    What is this doing here?
    How did the objects become part of the Weltkulturen Museum, and under what circumstances? In the workshop “What is this doing here?” we undertake a critical exploration of the stories of several objects in the museum collection, looking at their background and how they were acquired. These objects are closely intertwined with colonial history in Germany. The participants will gain insights into the debate on ownership and demands for restitution in an ethnological collection, and in group discussions they will then work out a potential stance on the issue.
    Duration: 3 hours
  3. Workshop based on the Film and Image Archive

    Störbilder (Disturbing Images)
    The workshop invites young people to take a look at the image archive of the museum. About 100.000 photos and 550 anthropological films are stored in the archive. What is the logic behind an archive? Which material is stored here? By looking at historical images from the archive we try to analyse colonial patterns and question the continuities in today’s racist imagery, in publicity, and the media. The workshop reflects power relations between the photographer and the photographed and challenges the way we perceive images.
    Duration: 3 hours
  4. Workshop with a simple language

    Nature, Culture, Architecture
    Wanderwege (Travel Routes)
    The objects in the Weltkulturen Museum all come from “migration backgrounds”. The museum’s history stretches back over one hundred years – and over that time, thousands of objects from different centuries have been collected from the Americas, Africa, South-east Asia and Oceania and brought to Frankfurt. What routes did they take? What is so special about them? And why are they now in a museum? With our hands-on collection and a tour through the museum’s current special exhibition, we discover more about everyday objects, art works and notions of culture. In this process, the aim is always to connect one’s own everyday life and the objects in the museum. At the end of the tour, ideas and insights are expressed in a creative form.

    “Travel Routes” is customised for the particular groups of participants.

    Duration: 2.5 hours, free of charge.

    This non-profit educational project is specifically designed for visitors who have as yet had little or no opportunity to take part in cultural activities.

    This activity can be booked as a group. The “Nature, Culture, Architecture” programme is available at the Welkulturen Museum, the Senckenberg Natural History Museum and the DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum.

    The programme is a cooperative project by the Weltkulturen Museum, Senckenberg Natural History Museum and DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum. Our thanks go to the Department of Cultural Affairs of the city of Frankfurt for generously funding this project.