INTERVIEW WITH ALAIN LECANTE

The sound of the independence movement – label founder and music producer Alain Lecante in an interview with Jan Philipp Kluck

INTERVIEW WITH SOUND ARTIST LASSE-MARC RIEK

On the occasion of his upcoming artist talk on Wednesday, 5 June at 6 pm, Lasse-Marc Riek spoke to us about his work with soundscapes and his passion for listening to the world.

OBITUARY ON JOSEF FRANZ THIEL

The Weltkulturen Museum remembers with gratitude and respect an outstanding director, supporter, colleague and friend. He passed away on April 08. 2024.

​A MEETING FOR DIALOGUE

Conversation about potential options for repatriating cultural assets to Cameroon

BENIN. THE COLLECTION AT THE WELTKULTUREN MUSEUM. PART 2 PERSPECTIVE: 360°-TOUR TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION

Part 2 of the exhibition examined when they entered the collection and under which conditions. In “Perspectives” we are looking to the future.

DOMINANT SOUNDS - BELLS FROM THE KINGDOM OF BENIN

What do artists and scholars from Nigeria think about the restitution debate? And how do they envisage the future of the Benin objects? These voices will be heard in the second part of the exhibition "Benin. The Collection at the Weltkulturen Museum. Perspectives" until 30 December. We look forward to seeing you there!

INTERVIEW

"Recognising commonalities between people and overcoming cultural differences" The outgoing director Dr. Eva Raabe looks back on her professional life

INTERVIEW

"Reimagining art from the Kingdom of Benin". Illustrator and designer Osaze Amadasun in conversation with the curators Julia Friedel and Audrey Peraldi

PLAYLIST FOR THE EXHIBITION

For the current exhibition, the participants are putting together a playlist of songs, musicians and sounds that have strongly shaped or influenced their auditory perception.

INTERVIEW WITH AUDREY PERALDI

In the current issue of WELTKULTUREN NEWS #8, Audrey Peraldi reports on the completed provenance research and the exhibition based on it, "Benin. The Collection at the Weltkulturen Museum. Retrospective/Perspectives".

PROVENANCE RESEARCH ON THE BENIN COLLECTION

In 2022, a research project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation was carried out at the Weltkulturen Museum. It dealt with the provenance and different acquisition circumstances of the objects from the Kingdom of Benin (Nigeria) that are in the collection of the Weltkulturen Museum. The project results are the starting point for our upcoming exhibition "Benin. The Collection at the Weltkulturen Museum. Retrospective/Perspectives".

SHIPIBO ART AND CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

Mona Suhrbier, curator for the Americas, in conversation with the Indigenous Shipibo artist Harry Pinedo.

THE INVIGORATING POWER OF DANCE

A conversation between dance instructor Ashanti and Julia Albrecht, education departement

THE COLOURFUL SPLENDOUR OF PLUMAGE

Some insights into cleaning feathers by our conservators Mareike Mehlis and Kristina Werner

CAUSE FOR HOPE

Laura Heidemann on activist transformations as healing processes

THE SKULLS OF ANCESTORS FROM PAPUA-NEUGUINEA

Director and oceanist Dr Eva Ch. Raabe about her experience showing the skulls in exhibitions at the Weltkulturen Museum

LIGHT AND SHADE - HOW COLOURS FADE

Conservators Mareike Mehlis and Kristina Werner give insight on the effects of light on museum objects

FOUR QUESTIONS TO FRAUKE GATHOF

In an interview, Frauke Gathof reveals what Maasai jeweljery says about the person wearing it, and we find out how "typical" the colourful beaded jewellery really is

POWERFUL VOICES

​A conversation about the “Places to See” LAB project with Kone-Netzwerk e.V. By Julia Albrecht

THE MOURNING GAZE

Martin Gusinde’s Photos of the Yagan, Selk’nam and Kaweskar at the exhibition "Green Sky, Blue Gras"

SHORT FILM ON THE INTERVENTION BY THE ARTISTS' COLLECTIVE SHIFT

Is there an appropriate way for us to present objects from Kenya in the Weltkulturen Museum when they are not visible in their country of origin?

WHICH WORLD ARE CHILDREN'S BOOKS ABOUT?

Children’s literature that is sensitive to discrimination and diversity: an approach by Stephanie Endter

PROVENANCE RESEARCH AT THE WELTKULTUREN MUSEUM

INTERVIEW WITH DR. EVA RAABE, DIRECTOR OF WELTKULTUREN MUSEUM FRANFKRUT, IN THE FAZ

SEEING COLOURS AND NAMING COLOURS

"Surprising tings can often be learned about a culture from its colour designations in particular, and the phenomena they describe" Matthias Claudius Hofmann Matthias Claudius Hofmann

Mengenai benda budaya dari Indonesia di koleksi-koleksi di negara barat dari segi pandang Indoensia

Sebuah wawancara dengan I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja

MAPPING PHILIPPINE MATERIAL CULTURE

09.12.2021

Since November 2021, it has been possible to access almost the entire Philippines collection online.

FILMS FROM HERMANN SCHLENKER IN THE COLLECTION VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

23.11.2021

In 1970, photographer and filmmaker Hermann Schlenker documented the four-day sacrificial Ghanta Parab festival in northern India.

ABOUT INTERVENTIONS

10.11.2021

Zoom talk with Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu, Nest Collective, about their artistic intervention in the exhibition “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums”

INTERVENTION

02.11.2021

artistic intervention in the exhibition “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums” by artist collective THE NEST.

INVISIBLE INVENTORIES: QUESTIONING KENYAN COLLECTIONS IN WESTERN MUSEUMS

26.10.2021

Pictures of the exhibition opening

REPATRIATION

08.07.2021

The Weltkulturen Museum returns Lakota leather shirt to Chief Duane Hollow Horn Bear for moral and ethical reasons.

NEW EXHIBITION MOVIE

10.06.2021

Here it is: the movie about the exhition “HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. From Being Rendered Invisible and Becoming Visible”. Watch now!

EMBRACING WHAT IS PRECIOUS

08.06.2021

Artistic Approaches to Boarding Schools in the Americas

AVIM PAINTINGS, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

06.05.2021

Acquisition project coordinated by Matthias Claudius Hofmann, curator for Oceania at the Weltkulturen Museum

HOW DID THE MASK GET INTO THE MUSEUM?

13.04.2021

A little story for Provenance Research Day (second Wednesday in April)

VIRTUAL EXHIBITION MEET UP WITH THE NEST COLLECTIVE

07.04.2021

A first look into the exhibition “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums” in Nairobi

CEDAR WOOD DANCE MASK MADE BY TOM HUNT, KWAKWAKA’WAKW NATION, CANADA

09.03.2021

Acquisition project coordinated by Americas curator Mona Suhrbier

SKILL AND STRENGHT

05.03.2021

The women of Vanuatu

“TREES” BY ROLDÁN PINEDO, SHIPIBO, PERU

25.02.2021

Acquisition project coordinated by Americas curator Mona Suhrbier: Commission and purchase of four large acrylic paintings

NEW PURCHASES

25.02.2021

Collecting is about relationships as much as it is about the works.

EYE CONTACT WITH ANCESTORS

04.02.2021

A cult house gable out of storage.

Season’s Greetings

22.12.2020

What these magic books and oracles of the datu (Batak) from North Sumatra have to do with the Twelve days of Christmas or the German ‘Rauhnächte’, tells our Christmas greeting.

STATEMENT ON ANTI-COLONIAL PROTEST

09.12.2020

Dr. Eva Raabe, director of the Weltkulturen Museum

HERMANN SCHLENKER'S FILM AND PHOTO COLLECTION

03.12.2020

The Hermann Schlenker's film and photo collection is one of the largest in the Weltkulturen Museum: it currently comprises 188 ethnographic films and around 7,000 catalogued slides and photographs.

READING TIP #3

12.11.2020

Today Maria Reith-Deigert and Renate Lindner (Weltkulturen Bibliothek) recommend a literary journey around the world.

DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM IN THE ART WORLD

10.11.2020

In the article "The Critical Self – Processes for reappraising a cultural institution" in the current edition of Weltkulturen News, Mona Suhrbier discusses discrimination and racism in the art world.

MINI-DOCUMENTARY

29.10.2020

Siva Samoa in Frankfurt

POETRY SLAM AT THE MUSEUM

27.10.2020

Me2You - Words in Motion

FILM

For all those who did not make it to the cabinet exhibition "Let Them Speak!" Here is the film of the exhibition.

DIANA HELLSON, DIRECTOR

01.10.2020

Artists of the exhibition “Let Them Speak! Comments from British Columbia, Canada”

“OUR LANGUAGE TEACHES US OUR WAY OF LIFE AND HOLDS US STRONG TO WORK ON OUR PATH.”

13.10.2020

Artists of the exhibition “Let Them Speak! Comments from British Columbia, Canada”

MEGHANN O'BRIEN, WEAVER

01.10.2020

Artists of the exhibition “Let Them Speak! Comments from British Columbia, Canada”

TOM HUNT’S MASK

29.09.2020

Artists of the exhibition “Let Them Speak! Comments from British Columbia, Canada”

READING TIP #2

22.09.2020

A reading recommendation by Renate Lindner (Weltkulturen Bibliothek)

CONNETIONS IN EAST AFRICAN ART

08.09.2020

Loans for the exhibition “Michael Armitage. Paradise Edict”​

FINISSAGE SW5Y

31.08.2020

“A beautiful exhibition – a necessary one. I cried.”

READING TIP

13.07.2020

A reading recommendation by Renate Lindner (Weltkulturen Bibliothek)

THE “HÖLLERER COLLECTION”

16.06.2020

An “Old Shatterhand” of the South Seas? On the track of a colonial-era collection with curator Matthias Claudius Hofmann

THE RETURN OF THE RESCUE SHIPS

04.06.2020

Chris Grodotzki is a permanent member of the Sea-Watch media team. In his text for the new edition of the Weltkulturen News​ he writes about how civil sea rescue in the Mediterranean Sea has changed from humanitarian intervention to resistance movement.

OBITUARY

28.05.2020

Feliciano Pimental Lana (1937–2020)

REPRESENTATION OF A CROCODILE

19.05.2020

Oceania curator Matthias Claudius Hofmann on a mythical creation story

“LITTLE NORTH ROAD” (XIAOBEILU). PHOTOGRAPHY ON A PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE

14.05.2020

A photo archive of African migrants in the city of Ghuangzhou. By Wu Yong Fu, Zeng Xian Fang and Daniel Traub

COME AROUND!

12.05.2020

In the exhibition WORLDS IN MOTION you can ...

WELCOME TO MY REALITY

12.05.2020

Americas curator Mona Suhrbier reports on the visits of indigenous and Afro-brazilian activist during the last years

LIGHT AND SHADOW: WAYANG KULIT FROM JAVA

11.05.2020

Vanessa von Gliszczynski, curator Southeast Asia, explains the centuries-old history of the wayang kulit and provides some insights into its cosmology.

EXCHANGE ON EQUAL TERMS, CULTURAL PARTICIPATION AND SELF-EMPOWERMENT

11.05.2020

An interview with Charlotte Njikoufon about her community engagement, in particular with the programme “Kultüröffner: Museum”, for which she is active as a facilitator. By Julia Albrecht, transcribed by Rachel Etse (Weltkulturen Education)

ETHNOLOGY DURING CRISIS

14.04.2020

Dr. Eva Ch. Raabe talks about museum und ethnology during crisis

MOVIE TIME!

02.04.2020

“Altars and good-luck symbols in Frankfurt businesses” Videos from the exhibition WORLDS IN MOTION

WHAT DO I SEE?

02.09.2019

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

PODCAST SAFRANSIRUP

12.03.2020

The bonus episode “Safransirup goes WORLDS IN MOTION: Of exhibition and social realities” is out now and can be heard here.

GREY IS THE NEW PINK. THE COOKBOOK. DOWNLOAD NOW!

12.03.2020

For cooking, browsing and being together.

THE HEIDELBERG STATEMENT

06.05.2019

“Decolonising requires dialogue, expertise and support”