Weltkulturenmuseum

SHEROES. Comic Art from Africa

SHEROES focuses on female protagonists and female perspectives: superheroines who fight against environmental disasters with local deities; a young woman who masters her everyday urban life; protagonists who defend LGBTQ rights.
31.10.2025 to 30.08.2026

Country bin pull‘em. Looking back together

What significance does millennia-old rock art from Australia have today? What potential do ethnographic and historical collections hold for Indigenous communities, museums and post-colonial cooperation?
01.11.2024 to 31.08.2025

Benin. The collection at the Weltkulturen Museum. Perspectives. Part 2

What is their attitude to the debate on restitution? And how do they imagine the future of these objects?
11.10.2023 to 28.01.2024

Benin. The collection at the Weltkulturen Museum. Retrospective. Part 1

When and under what circumstances did the “Benin Bronzes” enter the collection of what was then known as the Völkermuseum?
20.07.2023 to 27.09.2023

Shipibo Pot Stories. Patterns of the universe

A multimedia animated ceremonial beer pot from the Peruvian Amazonian rain forest recounts the myths and worldviews of the Shipibo.
14.05.2023 to 04.06.2023

healing. Life in Balance

The Exhibition presents multi-perspective narratives as well as works (of art) with transformative power
02.11.2022 to 03.09.2023

Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums

How can we make Kenyan cultural assets that are possessed by institutions in the Global North accessible to present-day Kenyan society.
06.10.2021 to 09.01.2022

IN PLAIN SIGHT. #ICHBINSICHTBAR

A guest exhibition of Kosmos e.V. at the Weltkulturen Labor accompanying the exhibition "HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. From Being Rendered Invisible and Becoming Visible“.
28.08.2021 to 05.09.2021

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. From Being Rendered Invisible and Becoming Visible

The exhibition examines how through multiple perspectives and approaches a space in the museum can be created, that allows for critically dealing with colonialism and its aftermaths up to the present day.
29.04.2021 to 05.09.2021