The Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) in Berlin evolved from the collections of the royal cabinets of art. Since its foundation in 1873, it has acquired one of the world's largest and most significant collections of its kind. The museum's collection includes approximately 500,000 ethnographic, archeological and historico-cultural objects from Africa, Asia, America and Oceania. They are complemented by around 500,000 media items (ethonological photographs, films, audio recordings) and about 200,000 pages of written documents. Since 2022, the Ethnological Museum, together with the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum) and other institutions, has been presenting its collection in an innovative concept at the newly built Humboldt Forum in the very center of Berlin since 2022.
Andrea Scholz
Dr. Andrea Scholz is curator for transcultural cooperation at the Ethnological Museum and Asian Art Museum. In this role, she develops strategies towards open and inclusive museum work, especially with regard to international partnerships. Since 2014, she has been actively working with indigenous organisations and institutions of indigenous education in Amazonia. The issues of climate change, integrity and protection of indigenous territories and the link between artefacts and territories, as well as the communication of these issues to a diverse European audience, play a key role in her work.
Anna Schäfers
Anna Schäfers is responsible for language and texts in the project “The Collaborative Museum” and was part of the education department from 2017 to 2022. She has a background in developing concepts and content for science exhibitions and exhibits and is engaged in DEI work both inside the National Museums and in national and international communities of practice.
Cristina Navarro
Cristina Navarro is curator for digital projects in “The Collaborative Museum”, an interdisciplinary project of the Ethnological Museum and the Asian Art Museum focused on international community work. She is responsible for digital and hybrid analogue-digital projects of the outreach programme, including virtual, augmented and mixed reality games and immersive installations. She was recently in charge of two digital / hybrid projects on climate change, one of them turned into an essential educational activity for (young) adults as dialogue-based tour.
Sarah Klemisch
Sarah Klemisch is curator for digital projects at “The Collaborative Museum" of the Ethnological Museum and the Asian Art Museum. She is also resposible for hybrid formats as well as media education projects. She has a background in developing media and exhibition projects at the intersection of curation, design and education, including those focusing on climate crisis and human-environment relations. She also has experience in developing and implementing citizen science projects.
Patrick Helber
Dr. Patrick Helber is a historian in post-colonial history and curator of education in the Ethnological Museum Berlin. There he organizes the freelance educators and among other things a guided AR tour on climate change in Oceania.
Timo Weißberg
Timo Weißberg is communications and press officer at the Ethnological Museum and the Asian Art Museum of the National Museums in Berlin. In this role, he plays the entire dissemination repertoire, managing and supervising all channels of external communication for the two museums in close coordination with the central communications department of the National Museums in Berlin.
